One of Shakespeare鈥檚 most villainous villains, Aaron never changes even as he faces his death, maintaining, 鈥淚f one good deed in all my life I did, / I do repent it from my very Soule.鈥� He is the primary provoker of the horrific violence that takes place in the play, but the most terrifying aspect of him is that he has no obvious motivation for it. He gets pleasure from bringing other people pain. He wants to be hated. To take revenge on Titus, he plots and carries out his daughter鈥檚 rape and, then, cuts out her tongue and chops off her hands so that she cannot identify her attacker. He then frames Titus鈥檚 two sons for Bassianus鈥檚 murder and cruelly bargains with Titus when he tries to set his boys free. All the while Aaron laughs to the audience as he describes his brutal plans.
