Honorable Brutus In Shakespeare’s play‚ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ the character of Marcus Brutus has a very significant‚ yet controversial role. Being both Caesar’s closest friend and a conspirator against him‚ Brutus is torn between whether or not he should take part in the murder. By his choice of joining with the conspirators to bring about Caesar’s demise‚ Brutus is not the ideal and honorable man Rome believed him to be. Brutus fears that Caesar’s power and ambition will grow far too
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When people are overcome with jealousy it can make them do outrageous things. In the play‚ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Shakespeare portrays Cassius as an evil manipulator in attempt to use Brutus as a pawn to achieve his goal. Cassius despises the way Rome is bring led and wants Caesar executed. He uses his skills to create a group of conspirators to kill Caesar and take over Rome. Cassius’s resentment can be shown through his malicious‚ courageous‚ and shrewd characteristics
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In “Julius Caesar”‚ a Tragedy written by William Shakespeare‚ Brutus joins the conspiracy because he is loyal to Rome and manipulated by Cassius. Brutus is loyal to Rome because he risks his life to do what he believes is the best for the state which is why he joins the conspiracy even though it could get him killed if he gets caught. Cassius manipulates Brutus using flattery during the Feast of Lupercal he points out that Caesar is no more worthy of being crowned emperor than Brutus which he hopes
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Tragedy of the Century Tragedy has com to our once peaceful nation. Our mighty leader Caesar was mercilessly assassinated yesterday on Ides of March 44 BC. by a group of rouge senators including Caesars trusted friend Marcus Brutus. These murderers have escaped and Rome has lost one of her best and most compassionate leaders. But what was the reason of this sudden assassination. The most obvious is uneasiness. For some time there has been tension between our great leader‚ Caesar‚ and the senate
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History is very important‚ without it we wouldn’t know of things that developed our country‚ we wouldn’t know of momentous people who did brilliant or even horrific things. Such as two well known conspirators who wanted innovation but to do so killing was much involved. Gaius Cassius Longinuslinus and Joseph Goebbels are two people from different worlds‚ different times and different roles played in history but both are very similar in the way they lived their lives and their goals within the country
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From the beginning of time‚ when societies were first constructed‚ certain men always knew exactly how to obtain something every person desires—power. Human beings thirst it‚ crave it. They love to give orders‚ love to be on top. Once obtained‚ power becomes like a drug—a person always wants more. Some achieve control in bloody ways; others acquire it through peaceful behavior. How might one reasonable gain and keep power? Niccolò Machiavelli and William Shakespeare agree that the former is generally
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THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY & CLEOPATRA 1. Antony and Cleopatra’s genre is tragedy. The reason why it is tragedy is because the main characters‚ Antony and Cleopatra‚ are having difficulties throughout the play. Antony is married and Caesar is worried that Antony is not doing what he is supposed to do and instead he is having affair with another queen. They loved each other but Antony had to marry to Caesar’s sister to make his relations stronger with Caesar. At the end of the play they both died. 2
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Part 1 It is good practice to quote the question – it helps with focus Plutarch’s view of Cleopatra and Antony’s relationship is likely to be a biased one; given his background as a Greek with Roman citizenship (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/465201/Plutarch - Accessed 6th November 2008)‚ Roman opinions will have influenced him. Also‚ Plutarch was writing over 100 years after Cleopatra’s death; his passage cannot be a primary source. It’s almost immediately clear from this passage
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Julius Caesar is a play written by William Shakespeare in the year 1601. It resemble the play Hamlet‚ and it characterized his assassination in 44 B.C. and the defeat of the conspirators in the battle of Philipi. Its setting is Rome‚ the capital city of Italy. Most of the scenes are set in Rome and Philipi. The play begins in the street of Rome where the Roman citizens is celebrating Caesar’s triumphant return from the war. Although the title of the play is ‘Julius Caesar’ but Caesar is not the main
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Brutus was the noblest roman who wanted what was in the best interest for the roman population. Brutus’s tragic flaw was that he was too trusting. He honestly felt that he had to kill Caesar in order to save Rome from tyranny. He trusted Mark Antony not to blame the conspirators in his speech at Caesar’s funeral. Mark Antony broke his promise and got Brutus and the others into deep trouble. Brutus indeed ended up in a position‚ from his own actions‚ that is tragic to the reader. In the play The
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