Today’s Totally Random
Lines
When did the tiger’s young ones teach the
dam?
O, do not learn her wrath,--she taught it
thee;
The milk thou suck’dst from her did turn
to marble;
Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.
Lavinia
Titus Andronicus Act II, Scene iii, Line 143
These are some
of the last lines that Lavinia will have in this play. She won’t die until the
last act, but a few lines further down from here she’ll be dragged off by
Chiron and Demetrius who will rape her and then cut out her tongue and chop off
her hands. So she won’t be saying much after this.
Right now though, Lavinia still has her tongue and she’s trying to talk to Tamora, the mother of these two guys, to get her to stop her sons from what they’re about to do. Demetrius responds by saying to his mother,
Listen, fair
madam: let it be your glory
To see
her tears; but be your heart to them
An
unrelenting flint to drops of rain.
Be your heart
to them (Lavinia’s tears)/An unrelenting flint to drops of rain. That's not bad. Anyway, that’s
when Lavinia gives us Today’s Lines telling Demetrius not to try to teach his mother
how to be cruel, because she’s the one who taught him.
These don’t sound like very nice people, Mr. Blagys.
They’re not, Mojo;
not very nice at all. And unfortunately, these kinds of people are still with us today. Best to try to avoid them at all costs.
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