Entry 5, Aaron

In lieu of discussion in class, I want to look at Aaron more thoroughly. He is the only character in Titus that isn't flat. It maybe be attributed to the fact that he is the only character which has a history the reader is aware of that isn't in the text. Being a Moor, we all know that he would have been condemned in Anglo-Rome. This exposition that is assumed gives reason to his enmity for all in the world. When he utters that he regrets any good deed he's ever done, it is not only his hatred of the world that comes through, it is also self-hatred; being brewed from his forced position, which is immutable, by his white suprresors, as the heel nipping snake in their eden. Only he has no promise of a better life, or an after life for that matter. So why should any effect on his earth be of any consequence, when pity or hope has no place in it for him. Aaron is much more than a simple Moor in this story, which he at first appears to be; rather, his rage foils each characters' to be judged against, and it is only his that seems tangible to the reader.