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Titus Andronicus Act III Scene I - Analysing and Evaluating Dramatic scenes When Titus prostrates himself and makes a plea to a non-existent audience, he represents the ultimate demise of Rome: its greatest hero reduced to an unsuccessful supplicant to the soil. In his speech to the banished Lucius, the "civilized" rivalry between Romans and the savagery and bloodlust of beasts converge: "Rome is but a wilderness of tigers" Together with the "consuming sorrow" of the abused Lavinia, this scene lays the foundation for a plot that increasingly concentrates on a circle of revenge that is rapacious and all-consuming. This all-consuming cycle ultimately finds concrete form in Titus's final scheme for retribution, in which the consuming of men is transformed from the metaphorical to the literal, and Titus's enemies are forced to eat their offspring. At the same time, so great are Titus's troubles that he is overwhelmed by them: "Like...

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