nevermindthecamera replied to your photo: Top 5 Creepiest Shakespeare Moments Number 1:…
To be fair, the bastards they’re eating raped Lavinia and cut off her hands and tongue so she couldn’t tell on them. I think they get what they deserve. ;)Agreed! It’s “justified” revenge, but it’s revenge by BAKING those bastards into a pie and serving them to their mother… gross. Like, why? They do deserve it, but that passage creeeeeeeeeps me out!
megaparsecs replied to your post: nevermindthecamera replied to your photo: Top 5…
no, that whole passage is STILL creepy as hell — also, titus kills lavinia right before or after he reveals that the food is people.
nevermindthecamera replied to your post: nevermindthecamera replied to your photo: Top 5…
Because the poor girl is miserable!!!! It’s a mercy killing! Tamara deserves it b/c she’s clearly a bad mother, and the other guests deserve it because they let it go on in their society. JUSTICE!!!!! (I also love horror movies, for the record)
lifeinblue-n-gold replied to your photo: Top 5 Creepiest Shakespeare Moments Number 1:…
To be honest, that whole play could qualify for #1
alwaysiambic: (Amy)
Yes, yes and yes. He kills his own daughter right after he asks Saturnius if a father should kill his daughter who has been raped. (wonder where this is going…) Boom, dead daughter. Boom, big reveal - she was raped!! gasp. Boom, Tamora, you’ve been eating your sons. (etc) The whole thing is a cluster of creepiness.
Just so everyone knows who has said what so far. :-P
alwaysiambic: (Rachel)
Think of it this way, though, really — what other choice does Titus have to really stick it to Tamora? What her sons did to his daughter is unforgivable and, honestly, no “justice” would do her injuries justice. So he kills the men who did it to her and forces their mother to eat her own sons.
I’m pretty sure that means HE WINS.
(I also do feel that asking Saturnius is his way of proving my point about there being no justice for her, and that his murdering her is not only ironic and to shock the banquet guests [especially Saturnius], but also as a mercy killing for her, because the poor girl has been raped, maimed, and forced to bake men into food for a feast. It’s, in all seriousness, the best possible scenario for her at this point, and helps her father make his point.)
But I do always feel that women get the shortest end of every stick in all of Shakespeare’s plays, but that’s a conversation for a different day. ;)