Bad Parenting In most situations one views their parent as the person who will never harm or abandon them in any way. In Shakespeare’s work Titus Andronicus, the role that the parents play aren’t very traditional to how parenting is viewed in the 21st century. The parents Titus, Tamora, and Aaron are mostly selfish and revengeful throughout the play. The parents cause conflict in the play by putting their loyalty in the wrong place, using their children for their own advantage, and by seeking revenge. Throughout Titus Andronicus one can sense the lack of compassion in Titus as a character and as a father. In the first act, the reader learns that Titus has lost plenty of sons in war and acts rather proud of it because of the victory against …show more content…
Titus clearly made this horrific situation about himself, in the passage he blames whoever did this to his daughter for him having to see it. Titus was too busy caring about his sadness to worry about Lavinias, “Why I have not another tear to shed. Besides, this sorrow is an enemy. And would usurp own my wat’ry eyes and make them blind with tributary tears.” (3.1.271-274) Titus went without dealing with the situation, at the end of the scene he even starts talking about revenge along with Marcus without trying to find a way to communicate with Lavinia about how she feels about seeking revenge or simply taking care of her very likely emotional distress. Even after everything Lavinia has been through, Titus suggests that Lavinia commit suicide at the dinner table, “Or get some little knife between thy teeth. And just against thy heart make thou a hole that all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall. May run into that sink, and soaking in, drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.” (3.2.16-20) This act reveals how negligent of a parent Titus really is and most importantly how he views his daughter Lavinia as disposable as his