Monologue

Aaron Monologue from Titus Andronicus

From Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 1:17 min

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Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up. (Taking the baby.) Stay, murderous villains, will you kill your brother? Now, by the burning tapers of the sky That shone so brightly when this boy was got, He dies upon my scimitar’s sharp point That touches this my first-born son and heir. I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus, With all his threatening band of Typhon’s brood, Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war, Shall seize this prey out of his father’s hands. What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys! Ye white-limed walls, ye alehouse-painted signs! Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan’s black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood. Tell the empress from me, I am of age To keep mine own, excuse it how she can.

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Aaron confronts a group of villains, fiercely defending his son and asserting his power and identity amidst a chaotic and violent situation.

30s · anger · power · family · revenge · identity

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