“Is Titus Andronicus too violent to be taught in schools?” I believe that it is too violent because of how to script shows many scenes and moments in which the children are not ready for yet. Some of these scenes could be seen as inappropriate to the wrong type of children e.g immature, misbehaving or those that believe they are not ready for what lies in the book. As a result of the wrong class of children reading it, they may be influenced to do what they have learnt or understood to be a bad thing and it could follow with some serious consequences. I do not think parents would enjoy the fact that their child has killed over thousands of men, or that they have raped a female in the woods and cut off their arms and tongue just to avoid her from telling or knitting what has happened to her and/or why she is in such a disgusted state. If the parents whose daughter was raped cannot do anything but watch her walk endlessly in different paths, they would not know what to do to stop their child from their misery… except kill her and put and end to her misery (once again, reenacting a scene that has happened in Titus Andronicus).

That little section which I have written above shows what the book/movie/play Titus Andronicus is capable of doing to children and how it will have an effect on their parents and their basic family life… destroying it completely. This is not what only the book/ the movie Titus Andronicus can do, but also books that contain murder, sex, violence, bullying and bad language or some very gruesome scenes, such as torture. Even if it was to be taught in schools, I believe that the class learning it would need to have a sensible level of maturity in order avoid a misunderstanding of what should happen in reality as well as an understanding of the book containing what is happening and why it is happening and if they could possibly give an explanation on what has been happening.

I believe this because once children are  in to something and are energetic, they will do everything they can to release all of that energy in that moment. During that moment, they may begin to act out some of the scenes in Titus Andronicus in such depth that it becomes realistic and physical actions begin to progress to a point where it no longer becomes comfortable to those who are performing the scene. Of course, all of this is definitely avoidable. Furthermore, we should consider the way that the character Titus Andronicus performs some of his actions and things that he was known to be very famous for e.g killing many enemies at war, killing his son for portraying him as an enemy, slicing the throats of the men that ravished his daughter and then grinding their bones into powder and using their blood as paste. All of these actions contain extreme violence which somebody dies in such a bad way possible. Furthermore, we should consider the way that children act towards inappropriate scenes and it is our duty, as elders, to understand their comfort zone and the boundaries of where they no longer wish to take part in the situation. In that case, we need to understand their feelings and emotions towards certain things and we may have to question them what they are comfortable with and what they are uncomfortable with, just to get an idea of what they are like in situations, and to avoid the discomfort of stepping out of the comfort zone, i would avoid the choice of allowing them to read/watch or even view the play of Titus Andronicus until they are at the point where they can confidently say that they are ready for Titus Andronicus in the manner where they are mature and will feel really easy about learning the story of Titus Andronicus. Obviously this will require the child to be able to find language features and use figurative language to understand Titus Andronicus in deeper knowledge however this makes it a bit easier for them to answer questions in an exam.