Shakespeare, the famous English writer, left behind so many plays representing the time of absolute power. At that time, only one person ruled and had the privilege of absolutism, which is the conduction of other's lives by force. Theatre was encouraged by the queen, who gave the national identity to people through writers such as Shakespeare. He defined and proved himself as a business man, drama became his goal; he started writing and became richer with time.
He wrote tragedies and comedies poetically, for this reason he was considered as a genius. Two among his plays reflected the real image that prevailed back then, where evil was spread among the rich class only for the sake of power. "Titus Andronicus" and "The history of King Richard III" are excellent tragedies revealing the destruction, murder, torture, and cruelty of people in the name of power and dynasty. However, after reading these plays, which one is considered more human?.
"Titus Andronicus" is a complicated tragedy where all are seeking power and revenge. There are too many characters in the play: Saturninus, Bassianus, Titus and his sons, Tamora and her sons, Aaron, Lavinia, etc . All of these represent evil one way or the other. Rape, massacre, death, and suffer were the themes played by the characters, that gave the whole play a taste of evil never seen in reality. It is such an inhuman story whereby illogical scenes occur. The rape of Lavinia, Tamora eating her children, killing and burying of the midwife, killing of the clown and other scenes had to be added to the play, for too many characters were introduced, and had to be gotten rid of by killing them. Without turning it into a comedy, because of too much tragedy, Aaron was left alive at the end of the play to indicate that evil can sometime prevail.
In "The history of King Richard III", Shakespeare also gave it a tragic path, however, not that inhuman like "Titus Andronicus".
