Titus Andronicus Research Paper

Tragedy doesn’t always have to lack aspects of gore or blood that make peoples’ stomachs turn. In fact, some tragedies may have a lot of horror to them to what may happen to a person; however, when a horrific tragedy occurs to someone close to a person, then that person may be driven to seek a terrible and bitter revenge in honor of the other person. In the years between the late 1580s and early 1590s William Shakespeare wrote his first tragedy, which can now even be a horror story. The story by itself has several themes that can be discussed, and be compared to a similar story which takes place in book six of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In this paper, I will have two main points that show the similarities between Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare and Metamorphoses by Ovid. The first main point will be …show more content…
She did not want to have with relations with either of them, but they forced her to, and this made her lose value as a woman. After Titus finds out that no man will want to marry his daughter because she is no longer a virgin, he kills his daughter to take her out of her misery. In The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela, rape occurs within a family through marriage. During a trip to visit his Procne’s family Tereus falls in love with his wife’s sister. It says in the poem that once he arrived to where they were going to meet to reunite with the family that he immediately felt a burning passion in him towards Philomela, his sister in law; however, Philomela does not want to have relations with Tereus for two reasons, one she respects and loves her sister Procne, and two she does not have an attraction towards Tereus. Both women in these stories did not feel an attraction to the men that were attracted to them, but they were taken by force, out of lust, and