Conflicting Viewpoints Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a tragic play about the fight for leadership and the conflicting views of what is right and wrong. In this play, Shakespeare uses imagery, contrast, and similes to highlight the arguments of those conflicting views through Cassius’s argument against Caesar. The different contrasts given in Cassius’s argument establish the differences between what people think of Caesar versus what he is truly like. One specific way in which he achieves this effect is through an emotion provoking memory of many Romans-- one of a world where their freedom is not ensured. He argues,“When went there by an age, since the great flood, but it was famed with more than with one man? When could they say, till now, that talked