Romeo And Julius Caesar Research Paper

Shakespeare’s readers learn many things through his work and the literary and dramatic devices he used shows them many lessons and techniques to improve our writing. His plays teach us ways we can be a good citizen, thinker, and writer. In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, I learned that citizens are the ones who have the power to decide who is trustworthy. Whether we are choosing a leader for the community or not, we need to know who can be trusted. Shakespeare shows us the difference or conflict between public loyalty and private loyalty. People in our community often get wrapped up in how their image looks or their reputation in society and that causes them to be blindsided from the current issues and event in the community. Also in Julius Caesar, the reader is able to see that alliances are built on a mutual or common hatred--portrayed by Brutus and Cassius’s scheme to kill Caesar. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare teaches his readers that we can all contribute our good qualities to our community and that our good qualities could possibly be our bad qualities sometimes. Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar share the lesson of public vs. private loyalty. For example, Caesar has somewhat of a loyalty to his people but also has strong …show more content…
For example, Shakespeare used the archaic word, lob, to describe someone as dumb. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare teaches us that we have to understand the facts before we apply them as well as how to use irony to increase tension. I learned that verbal irony or sarcasm is one way of making a lot of things stand out or intense. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows us that some ideas can be misapplied. In As You Like It, the reader learns that they can create characters with contradicting views on things like nature as seen in The Tempest as well as As You Like