The Similarities And Background Of Butus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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When the Soothsayer warns Caesar, he says, “Beware the ides of March” (Shakespeare 1.1.18). In this paper, it will talk about the history of Julius Caesar and what he was like, along with the background of Brutus, and the similarities and differences between them and the modern day Julius Caesar, which is Joseph Stalin, and modern day Brutus, which is Hitler. This will also mention the background of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. While Flavius is talking to the commoners he asks, “What, know you not walk upon a laboring day without the sign of your profession?” (Shakespeare 1.1.2-5). When Marullus asks both commoners three separate questions, he asked, “Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on? …show more content…
“Pompey: A former Roman ruler defeated by Caesar in 48B,C.” (Shakespeare 1.1.39). Calpurnia warns Caesar about March 15 by saying, “You shall not stir out of your house today” (Shakespeare 2.2.9). As Caesar talks with his wife, Calpurnia, he says to her, “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once” (Shakespeare 2.2.32-32). When Calpurnia tells Caesar, not to go outside the house, his reply was, “Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me ne’er looked but on my back” (Shakespeare 2.2.10-11). When the servant returned from the priests, he told Caesar, not to leave the house and Caesar said that he would be a beast that does not have a heart and that if he was to stay home because of fear (Applebee pg, 728). As Caesar arrives to the capitol in Rome, he says to the soothsayer, “The ides of March are come” (Shakespeare 3.1.1). Once Caesar was finished speaking to the Soothsayer says, “Ay, Caesar, but not gone” meaning the ides of March (Shakespeare 3.1.2). As soon as Artemidorus walks up to Caesar, he gives Caesar the letter he wrote, and says, “Hail Caesar! Read this schedule” (Shakespeare 3.1.3). In conclusion, Caesar was basically a valiant person, who really didn’t fear anything, even his own death and the consequences of his …show more content…
Throughout this paper, it talked about the background of Caesar and Brutus, along with the history of Joseph Stalin, the modern day Julius Caesar, and the history of Adolf Hitler, the modern day Brutus. It also mentions the similarities and differences between Caesar and Stalin, and Hitler and Brutus. As Flavius was speaking with the commoners, he asked why they weren 't dressed in the clothes of their profession. After Flavius was done, Marullus spoke with the commoners, he asked where their symbols of their profession were, why they had their best clothes on, and what do they do for a living. In the time the citizens were looking for the conspirators, one of the people in the crowd asked a citizen, what their name was, and the reply the citizen gave them was Cinna, but he tried to tell them that he was not the conspirator. Throughout this paper, it showed how Caesar and Stalin was alike and how they were different, and how Hitler and Brutus were alike and different. Now, what do you think of Caesar, Brutus, Stalin, and

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