| Quote #10 Behold this child: Pointing to the Child in the arms of an Attendant Of this was Tamora delivered; |
At the play's end, Marcus hold up Aaron's baby to the crowd as if the child were evidence of all Tamora and Aaron's wrongdoings – as if the product of their adulterous affair (the baby) is proof that they plotted against the Andronicus family. For Marcus, Aaron and Tamora's black child becomes the symbol of its parents' sins. What's up with that?