In my opinion the noblest character in the play was Brutus. Therefore I agree with Anthony when he says Brutus was the noblest Roman of all. Brutus truly was a great person in this play. Brutus sacrificed a lot in the name of Rome. He had some weaknesses but also a lot of strengths. The reason I choose Brutus as the Noblest Roman of them all was because he put Rome before his friendship with Caesar. Although it was not an easy decision to assassinate Caesar. I believed that he thought it was the
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179-180) Like all the other men of their time and culture‚ both Hector and Achilles knew that their most important duty was to fight wars. In the Iliad‚ by Homer‚ war was of the utmost importance‚ and the Greeks felt that dying in battle was the noblest way to die. Outside of war‚ men made their own decisions as to what else would be important in their lives. Hector valued his family‚ was able to control his emotions‚ and respected the gods. Achilles was almost the exact opposite. "Don’t ask me
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admiting our own failure‚ both the things that we have done to break God’s law and the things that we have not done to keep God’s law‚ it means mourning for our sins‚ but not remaining in a state of sorrow and despair‚ but looking to God for the forgivness that he grants us in Jesus. As 1 John 1:9 says “If we confess our sins‚ he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” We cannot ask for forginess without granting it ourselves to those that harm us
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Julius Caesar The play Julius Caesar is strewn with power hungry capitalist‚ that manipulate their way to the top through betrayal and death. Shakespeare’s problem that he reveals in the play Julius Caesar is the need and want for power that ultimately leads to corruption. Corruption is exemplified in different levels of society from the beginning of the play to the end of the play in different significant scenes. The opening scene of the play is the first indicator of corruption already
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Shakespearean dramas are often studies of human frailty. Use Othello to focus a discussion on the extent to which this is true. “Alas‚ our frailty is the cause‚ not we: For such as we are made of‚ such we be”‚ here William Shakespeare puts into light the imperfection of humanity‚ we all have our faults. Shakespeare wrote plays that reflected the society of his era; he explored the extreme possibilities if our human frailty were to take over our better judgement‚ this is evident in his play Othello
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Upon news of Caesar’s death‚ the plebians believed they were “blest that Rome [was] rid of him”. The only one who truly “weeps” about Caesar is Mark Antony‚ who is considered a “limb of Caesar”. But instead of wanting to revenge Caesar‚ Antony uses Caesar’s death as a tool to destroy the conspirators and seize power from Brutus. After swaying the plebians with his speech about Caesar’s death‚ Antony remarks that the “mischief” that he has created is now “afoot”. He sits back
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respect for us. And its vengeance is not the fire in the cities but the fire in the sky” (Coates 150). This Dream is causing danger to the Earth we live on‚ physically‚ and is destroying every life upon it‚ and sooner or later the Earth will have its revenge and wipe mankind clean of itself. Life will no longer exist
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Like many other great tragedies of the enlightenment era‚ the novel Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ deals very much with the desires and ambitions of the human psyche. Throughout Shelley’s life she was influenced by ambition and in turn she‚ herself‚ had an ambitious nature. In fact‚ Shelley actually wrote Frankenstein while competing in an extreme storytelling contest against her husband‚ Percy Shelley‚ and close friend‚ Lord Byron. At the same time however‚ she was conflicted by her crave to become
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Gene Forrester’s difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world is a main focus of the novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ by John Knowles. Gene’s journey begins the moment he pushes Phineas from the tree and the process continues until he visits the tree fifteen years later. Throughout this time‚ Gene must become self-aware‚ face reality and the future‚ confront his problems‚ as well as forgive and accept the person that he is. With the jouncing of the limb‚ Gene realizes his problems
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conspirators‚ Brutus was the only noble that had altruistic reason for such a crime. Cassius advises Brutus to eliminate Antony and not permit him to speak for Caesar‚ but his respect for Caesar and naive nature allows Antony to persuade the citizens to revenge for Caesar promoting civil wars against the conspirators. At the civil war‚ Brutus makes a mistake of taking the troop uphill to Octavius’s army and leading him to his dead end and defeat .Throughout the story‚ Brutus has made decisions without the
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