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Examples Of Seizure In Julius Caesar
In Act 1 of Julius Caesar, Caesar suffers a horrific seizure while standing in the marketplace, possibly signaling that Caesar is not fit to be the leader of Rome. After Caesar’s rant about Cassius being “too lean and hungry” he exits, Cassius, Brutus, and Casca then start conversing of how Caesar was offered the crown thrice. Casca tells them that Mark Antony had offered the crown to Caesar, but Caesar refused all three times, delighting his supporters. Suddenly, after the third offering, Caesar got choked up, “He fell down in the marketplace and foamed at the mouth and was speechless.”(I, ii, 263-264). Caesar has had a seizure due to all the stress surrounding the crown. Brutus claims that Caesar “Hath the falling sickness”, possibly referring
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