Tamora Character Analysis

Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,
A mother’s tears in passion for her son.
And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,
O think my son to be as dear to me.

I’ll find a day to massacre them all
And raze their faction and their family,
The cruel father and his traitorous sons.

Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,
A Roman now adopted happily.

Revenge it as you love your mother’s life,
Or be you not henceforth called my children.

Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,
For no name fits thy nature but thy own.

Remember, boys, I poured forth tears in vain
To save your brother from the sacrifice,
but fierce Andronicus would not relent.
Therefore away with her, and use her as you will;
The worse to her, the better loved of me.

And swear with me—as, with the woeful fere
And father of that chaste dishonored dame,
Lord Junius Brutus swore for Lucrece’ rape—
That we will prosecute by good advice
Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,
And see their blood or die with this reproach.

Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy.
Join with the Goths, and with revengeful war
Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,
And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.

Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,
A mother’s tears in passion for her son.
And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,
O think my son to be as dear to me.

I’ll find a day to massacre them all
And raze their faction and their family,
The cruel father and his traitorous sons.

Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,
A Roman now adopted happily.

Revenge it as you love your mother’s life,
Or be you not henceforth called my children.

Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,
For no name fits thy nature but thy own.

Remember, boys, I poured forth tears in vain
To save your brother from the sacrifice,
but fierce Andronicus would not relent.
Therefore away with her, and use her as you will;
The worse to her, the better loved of me.

And swear with me—as, with the woeful fere
And father of that chaste dishonored dame,
Lord Junius Brutus swore for Lucrece’ rape—
That we will prosecute by good advice
Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,
And see their blood or die with this reproach.

Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy.
Join with the Goths, and with revengeful war
Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,
And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.