Compare And Contrast: Titus Andronicus

Alexxus Paige
Ms. Murray
English 101
Essay Three
Compare and Contrast: Titus Andronicus

In the play Titus Andronicus, one main theme of the whole play is revenge tragedies. There are many tragedies that happen to compare and contrast to police brutality in today’s society. There are many category’s that relate to police brutality such as excessive force, police harassment, discrimination, and police intimidation. Tragedies happen all over the world, I will compare and contrast tragedies in today’s world to tragedies in the play Titus Andronicus. There are also lot more themes that come from the play Titus Andronicus such as rape, murder, and loyalty. I will be compare and contrast all the themes to the world that I live in today.
To get back at Titus, she schemes with her lover Aaron to have Titus’s two sons framed for the murder of Bassianus, the emperor’s brother. Titus’s sons are beheaded. Unappeased, she urges her sons Chiron and Demetrius to rape Titus’s daughter Lavinia, after which they cut off her hands and tongue so she cannot give their crime away.” In the real world today, raping someone is also a federal offense but it happens almost every day in society. There are many humans who get raped every day and is scared to go to the Law enforcement because they are feared by their rapist. The difference between what happened in the play then in the real world is that in society today, there haven’t been any cases of someone getting their tongue and hands cut off. Rape is something that has been going on for centuries. The rape that had occurred with Titus’s daughter, Lavinia was to seek revenge to Titus from Tamora. This happens because Titus sacrificed Tamora’s eldest son to his own dead sons, which left Tamora overheated and promises to seek revenge. There are not too many revenges that are talked about in the real would. When I was in high school, there would be a group of friends making prank revenges among each other’s. We would do things like put salty in someone else drink, or we would do something like put water in a student’s seat so they can sit in the water.
There were fourteen counted murders in the play Titus Andronicus. In Cincinnati, Ohio which is where I am from, there were seventy eight murders in the year of 2014. Murders happen every day across the society. In the play there was no particular time when someone would get murdered. Along with the real world today, there is no particular time frame on when someone decides to murder someone. There are many murders that happen in the broad day light, and there are some murders that happen at night fall. In the play the humans who murdered someone was able to walk away freely without a punishment with the federal law. In the century that I was born and raised in, there would be a crime scene unit collecting everything they need for evidence. There would also be a homicide unit who will find the person who murdered a human being because in today’s world it is illegal to murder a human being. Most of the murders in the play were because of revenge, which leads to more murders and more deaths. Eventually in the play, everyone beside one person dies. The difference between the murders in the play and the murders in the society today if you are found and charged for the murder of another human being then you would be sentenced based off of your charges and sent to the penitentiary. Also if you are sent to jail then that means it will be hard for you to get back on your feet, it will be hard to find jobs and be