William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is a play full of gore and violence from its very core. The play continually compares the two nationality groups, the Goths, and the Romans. The title character and his family are considered the protagonists, and the Goths, are mainly the antagonists. Each group has noble attributes but also more dark and sickly attributes. There is the constant question of civilized versus uncivilized characters throughout the play. Shakespeare uses animal imagery and references to convey the brutality and beastly viciousness the characters have. The use of animals and comparing characters to them is also a metaphor for the civilization of the characters. These comparisons to animals is a symbol of how both the Goths
