What makes a powerful person so powerful? The world sees powerful people as many different things. They perceive a powerful person as someone who has many followers‚ someone who is wealthy‚ or someone who is well known. The person could possibly be a combination of all these traits‚ or they could just be a peevish clay-brained canker blossom! In the play Julius Caesar‚ you will find many characters such as Caesar‚ Sulla‚ and Antony‚ that try to be the most dominant and formidable. Caesar captivates
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Would Julius Caesar be a good king? Julius Caesar takes place in ancient Rome in 44 B.C. He was never technically king‚ but he came close to having the powers of a king‚ but he got killed before he could become one. He is very arrogant throughout the story while he is still alive. He is pretty stubborn while being pretty manipulative just like almost every character in the play. I don’t feel like he will be a good king just because of his arrogance. He also had his good qualities
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In February 44 BC. Julius Caesar has just reentered Rome in triumph after a victory in Spain over the sons of his old enemy‚ Pompey the Great. During the celebration it was interrupted and broken up by Flavius and Marullus‚ two political enemies of Caesar. It soon becomes apparent their words are powerful and secret forces are working against Caesar. Caesar appears‚ attended by the train of friends and supporters‚ and is warned by a soothsayer to "beware the ides of March‚" but Caesar ignores the
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homeland? This was most certainly what Caesar planned with the acceptance of his crown (which he never received because of backstabbing traitors). This great man had led the Roman Nation to prosperity through the conquering of the Gaul and the slaying of Pompey the Great with the help of Cleopatra VII Thea
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO THE CHARACTERS ANTONY AND CAESAR EMBODY THE CONFLICTING WORLDS OF EGYPT AND ROME The Shakespearian play Antony and Cleopatra’ is a tragic love story between the two characters Antony a Triumvate Ruler of Rome and Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt. The play of Antony and Cleopatra is not just a tragic love story it also incorporates a storyline of international politics‚ therefore making it a public and also a private drama in which Antony and Octavius Caesar contend for control
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The Greco-Roman tradition is our own. To understand ourselves we need to understand the forces that shaped the ancient Greeks and Romans. They are both similiar and different when it comes to development and their traditions. I will discuss the ways in which the society‚ military‚ and political forces have caused these two cultures to develop. The Greek’s society is unique in the way it developed. It developed around the poleis. A city usually formed around a hill that also encompasses the
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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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March of the following year. Sacagawea‚ her husband‚ and her son remained with the expedition on the return trip east until they reached the Mandan villages. During the journey‚ Clark had become fond of her son Jean Baptiste‚ nicknaming him "Pomp" or "Pompey." And he even offered to help him get an education. Once Sacagawea left the expedition‚ the details of her life
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seek the good of all men and even friends‚ but rather seek for more power for himself. A first scene that depicts ambition is the feast of Lupercal; the people were celebrating because Julius Caesar came back to Rome with triumph after defeating Pompey in a civil war in Egypt‚ and now he has the advantage to become King. A pair of commoners who are celebrating Caesar’s return met the two government officials‚ Marullus who was one of the government officials asks the commoners if they “strew flowers
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And her had a nickname for him it was “pomp” or “pompey” . And clark even offered to get jean baptiste a education. After leaving the expedition sacagawea and her husband and her son left. In 1809 her and her husband went to st louis to see clark and they left their son with clark. Sacagawea gave birth
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