Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar‚ Brutus‚ is the main and most known conspirator in the murder of Caesar‚ was an honorable man. Brutus had a choice within himself; he could either be loyal to his friend Caesar‚ or to Rome. He was honorable because he killed his friend out of the love for the greater good and the Romans. Brutus is an honorable man because he did what he thought was right for everyone not just himself‚ and because of that Brutus deserved the honor. Throughout Julius Caesar there are many
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William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar is about a group of conspirators that plan to murder Julius Caesar‚ a military leader that is soon to be be king. The conspirators’s plan was a success but they later have to go to war with Caesars noblest friend Marc Antony and his heir Octavius. This results in many tragic deaths. In this play there has been a question asked who would be the tragic hero-Brutus or Caesar? Based upon the definition of a tragic hero‚Caesar would be more fit. To begin‚the
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Julius Caesar Persuasion Essay Soon after the last breaths of one of Rome’s most popular general‚ Julius Caesar‚ Antony and Brutus were speaking in front of the people of Rome. Both cunning leaders were nimble in the art of persuasion and manipulation. The beloved leaders used the Ethos‚ Pathos‚ and Logos methods of persuasion to sway the crowd to his respective view of the actions of the night and their former general Julius Caesar. Initially the power ethos was used by Brutus to affect the
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words that the Roman People shouted in the Shakespeare play‚ Julius Caesar. The roman citizens lacked even a drop of wisdom and did not use their own brains to think for themselves. This statement can be proved with these three examples: The first example is that the people instantly believed Brutus’ reasoning for assassinating Caesar. They lacked loyalty and even common sense. Helplessly convinced‚ they exclaimed‚“ Let him be Caesar!” Secondly‚ moments after Brutus gave an oration‚ they radically
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The Relevance of Loyalty in Julius Caesar In the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar‚ loyalty is relevant to each person. In the eyes of Marc Antony‚ Marcus Brutus‚ and Cassius‚ the term “loyalty” means something entirely different to each man. In a sense‚ each of the three characters is only loyal to what he thinks is good and right but in some cases‚ his morals also fluctuate with his desires. Marc Antony plays the specific role of a son-like figure to Caesar. He takes no part in the conspiracy
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English 2 Essay Julius Caesar In the story called “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚” there is a character named Brutus. Brutus is a dynamic character because he changes throughout the story. In the beginning toward the end of the story‚ Brutus goes from being a best friend‚ to a conspirator‚ to a murder‚ to an exile‚ and finally a victim of suicide. In the beginning‚ Brutus was a loyal friend to Caesar and wouldn’t have any reason to harm him. But‚ Brutus was manipulated by Cassius and joined
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49 BC Julius Caesar became Dictator and concentrated all the powers in his hands. In this case‚ we are to take into consideration that Dictator was an administrative post in Rome republic. Dictator was assigned for a one year term under the decision of Senate. The grounds for such decision could be internal disorders‚ political instability or military incursion into territories of Republic. After such conditions deceased‚ Dictator’s powers determined. Each year the powers of Julius Caesar as Dictator
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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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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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This statement is expressed many times in Oedipus the King‚ by Sophocles‚ and Julius Caesar‚ by William Shakespeare. Only when the characters are alone is when their true personalities show. Together‚ the quote is proved to be‚ in fact‚ true. Mark Antony‚ one of the main characters of Shakespeare’s play‚ Julius Caesar‚ is made out to be one of the “good guys” all throughout the play‚ but as seen later after Caesar’s death‚ he actually had bad intentions from the start. It was not known that Mark Antony
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