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Bloomington: Indiana
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Complete Works. New
York: Modern Library, 2007. Print. Pp. 1536-1673
Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus are right next to each other in my textbook.
Original Idea:
Pride in Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus (of leads)
New Possible Ideas:
Chaos in Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus (political and otherwise)
Hero turned Villain (lead characters)
Power
Power gone awry
Order and Disorder
The Emotional Experience
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Violence (general)
1st (TA) and Last (Coriolanus) tragedy plays

Go through both plays and find examples of chaos. Examples: end of TA and some crowd scenes in
Coriolanus. The end of Coriolanus works as well; pretty much the 2nd half of TA works too.
Went back to original idea of Pride; focus on the main characters of Coriolanus and Titus.
Paper:
5-8 pages (1250-2000 words)
5 outside sources
Sources I have quotes from so far:
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Battenhouse, Roy W. Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Its Christian Premises. Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 1971. Print.
Champion, Larry S. Shakespeares Tragic Perspective. University of Georgia Press, 1976. Print.

Coriolanus:
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Introduction: pp. 1536-1538

1.9 (consulship rejection scene)
1.1
1.3 (Volumnia and Virgilia)
1.5 (return from war)
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2.3 (outburst at citizenry in the streets)
5.6.80-150 (death scene)
3.3.122

Pride in country (patriotism) relationship between Coriolanus and Volumnia (his mother)
Titus Andronicus:
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Introduction: pp. 1616-1619

1.1.169-256 (rejection of role of emperor)
1.1.292-355 (kills his son)

Pride leads to destruction

Psalm 73:6, 119:21
Proverbs 6:17, 16:18
Examples of Proud men in the Bible:
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Uzziah: 2 Chronicles 26:16

Hezekiah: 2 Chronicles 32:25

Webster, Margaret. Shakespeare Without Tears. Cleveland: World Pub., 1955. Print.

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content to serve under another general; he runs from public commendation of his own deeds and
worth; he is not especially elated over the offer of the consulship; and he cannot bring himself to
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glorifying in his own power as a fighter and willing, for no reward but the satisfaction of his own pride,
to serve in the mos
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Rome, the aristocrats, the military men, the politicians, and the common people; the hostilities and
unholy alliances; the pressures of ambition, pride, patriotism, greed, jealousy, and fearall these things
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Harbage, Alfred. Shakespeare: The Tragedies; A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1964. Print.
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Coriolanus explores the extreme situation of the individual who pits himself again
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Hurnard, Hannah. Hinds' Feet on High Places. Old Tappan, NJ: Spire, 1973. Print.

that once Pride is listened to, struggle as one may, it is the hardest thing in the world
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down the path and round the corner, slipping and stumbling on the stones as he went, and was out of
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Coriolanus: the ultimate prideful character (his pride is the undertone of the whole play; his arrogance
and contempt for the people and being rewarded for his deeds

Part one of both plays: prideful man who has ties to only Rome and Valor and nothing else
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Part three: others are acknowledged, but the consequence is death