pe mutilation of Titus’ daughter Lavinia only leads Titus to seek vengeance on Tamora and her sons and Titus does get revenge by kidnapping Demetrius and Chiron and states, “Villains, I will rear, two pastries of your shameful heads. “(Shakespeare, V.Ii,189) Titus then feeds these pies to their mother and then kills her immediately after. Again the parent has caused nothing but tragedy for the child and their self by abandoning the ways of the feminine. The child of Tamora and Aaron is clearly a child created without the act of love and that Tamora has no love at all for this child and wishes it dead. Though Titus and Tamora show an almost unbelievable ruthlessness toward each other and toward their own offspring, critics have often seen in Aaron's behavior toward his infant son a refreshing tenderness. Nanette Jaynes, states that Aaron, the "incarnation of evil:" will "risk everything for the sake of his child." Leslie Fiedler claims that Aaron "decides to save the child, which presumably could only function in relation to one as black as he." Closer examination of the text, however, shows Aaron as a far more ambivalent parent than the critics have described him. Aaron learns of his child when the nurse enters with the baby and says that Tamora wants the Moor to kill his child. After murdering the nurse. Aaron addresses his son.Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms, And secretly to greet the Empress' friends. Come on, you thick-lipp'd slave, I'll bear you hence, For it is you that puts us to our shifts. I'll make you feed on berries and on roots, And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat, And cabin in a cave, and bring you up To be a warrior and command a camp. (Shakespeare, IV.ii, 170-180)Although this passage may contain a sort of manly warmth, much in it is also suspect. Aaron comments that he wishes to "dispose" of the child, a strange choice of words ...
