The question of right or wrong in this play can be better described in a sense of sympathy for the characters or lack of. Upon reading the entire play, my feeligns towards the chracters varied immensely. Although in my first post I discuss how the honor does not surpass the excessive killing, I now see the characters actions as more of concern of a means to an end. As I said in class, a praying mantises way of reproduction falls along the same lines. The male rapes the female, and the female attacks back, biting his head off and eating it, yet it still impregnates her. The comparison I am trying to make here is that when we learn of this or maybe see this take place, we immediately have negative feelings toward the male and think his actions are wrong. But as angry as this may make us, the male is doing this for a cause, he is continuing his species existence. So as Titus killing his own son may seem very wrong, he is doing it for the sake of carrying on the honor. And with the other characters who kill, they kill for their country. So when you look at the play at a whole, this is what I mean of it all being done for a means to an end. But then again, the female praying mantis does not cook the male into a pie and serve it to the queen praying mantis. Not really a praying mantis dessert delicacy. So revenge is another thing...
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