In Act 2, scene 3 Lavinia has said, “'Ti’s present death I beg; and one thing more that womanhood denies my tongue to tell: O, keep me from their worse than killing lust, and tumble me into some loathsome pit, where never man's eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer” (2.3. 172-8). Lavinia who fears of being rape and begs of mercy to Tamora that she rather be killed than be tumbled into some loathsome pit with beastly creatures. The swallowing womb is being used as the darkness of sexual brutality and desire and lust of wild ravenous creatures. This will foreshadow into a vivid image of the brutality that Lavinia’s body has went through, which will result in the mutilation of her tongue and hands in which Shakespeare presents
