GCSE: Titus Andronicus
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To what extent do you consider Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to be a moral play?
These questions lead the members of the audience to begin questioning their own morality and even humanity. What is most definitely apparent is the overuse of violence in the play. It seems that some of the more 'innocent' characters of the play are killed first, leaving the audience angry and complicit in the revenge cycle that follows the deaths (in which one a death would lead onto another, and it is never clear when it is that a death has been entirely avenged or the revenge has been to harsh leaving the victim, the new unjust murderer.
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