Posted by Flanagan on January 28, 19101 at 02:16:58:
In Reply to: titus andronicus posted by kathy on December 19, 19100 at 09:56:38:
: I'd love to get opinions :
: Which two excerpts from the play do you consider most important?
: Why?
The one that comes to me first off the top of my head is Aaron's brilliant soliloquy toward the end when he is confronted and captured by Lucius and the Goths. It is here where the brutal reality that is the makeup and persona of the Moor is finally cast into a harshly visible light. It is here that he proves that he is, in a play ripe with villian stacked upon villian, the true instigator of everything that has cruelly happened to the Andronici. I think this part is so important to the play because it is here that Aaron demonstrates his heart is full of hatred and he shows absolutely no remorse for his heinous crimes; rather, he seems to revel in them. He isn't just an evil person; he is evil. He takes absolute delight in doing what he did, even saying that he wished he could commit a thousand similar crimes. I personally think that he is Shakespeare's greatest villian.