A noble person expresses high and respectable moral principles and ideals. Mark Antony was one of the noblest, maybe even the most noble man, in Rome at the time. In the beginning of this Shakespearean play, Mark Antony is portrayed as an aristocrat. Shakespeare wrote of Mark Antony with great respect and wrote of him as a loyal friend of Caesar’s.
In the beginning of reading this story, I perceived Mark Antony as a respectable man. However, I also portrayed Caesar as a respectable and honorable man. “Ay, marry, wasn’t, and he put it by thrice, every time gentler than the other, and at every putting-by mine honest neighbors shouted,” Casca stated after Caesar was offered the crown 3 times and repeatedly refused it. Shakespeare used this scenario to express an idea to the audience that Caesar was not after power, which was to make the audience perceive that Caesar was a good man. Being Caesar’s best friend, It was almost as if Shakespeare bound our view of Antony to our view of Caesar. As our perception of Caesar changes, our perception of Mark Antony changes simultaneously almost subconsciously. …show more content…
Normally in works, authors tend to maintain the same view of the protagonist and antagonist throughout the story. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was not one of those works; Shakespeare shifted our perceptions almost completely.
In the exposition, Brutus is portrayed as a troubled man, which leads us to believe that he is a ‘bad guy.’ Brutus is first expressed this way when Cassius says “Brutus, I do observe you now of late I have not from your eyes that gentleness and show of love as I was wont to have. You bear to stubborn and too strange a hand over your friend that loves
In the beginning of reading this story, I perceived Mark Antony as a respectable man. However, I also portrayed Caesar as a respectable and honorable man. “Ay, marry, wasn’t, and he put it by thrice, every time gentler than the other, and at every putting-by mine honest neighbors shouted,” Casca stated after Caesar was offered the crown 3 times and repeatedly refused it. Shakespeare used this scenario to express an idea to the audience that Caesar was not after power, which was to make the audience perceive that Caesar was a good man. Being Caesar’s best friend, It was almost as if Shakespeare bound our view of Antony to our view of Caesar. As our perception of Caesar changes, our perception of Mark Antony changes simultaneously almost subconsciously. …show more content…
Normally in works, authors tend to maintain the same view of the protagonist and antagonist throughout the story. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was not one of those works; Shakespeare shifted our perceptions almost completely.
In the exposition, Brutus is portrayed as a troubled man, which leads us to believe that he is a ‘bad guy.’ Brutus is first expressed this way when Cassius says “Brutus, I do observe you now of late I have not from your eyes that gentleness and show of love as I was wont to have. You bear to stubborn and too strange a hand over your friend that loves