Brutus and the rest of the conspirators feel that the idea of Caesar becoming king and gaining too much power is metaphorically killing them. Furthermore, even when warned by a soothsayer (fortune teller), Caesar still doesn’t believe his fate. Whether or not the fates of Julius Caesar and Joseph Stalin’s army were fate or just an unlucky play of events, both parties suffered immensely.
To start, Julius Caesar is the leader of Rome and has just returned to Rome prior to defeating Pompey’s armies in a foreign land. Caesar doesn’t actually want to be king, even when the citizens of Rome presented him with a crown three times. Caesar is completely oblivious to the conspiracies against him. Caesar finally gets suspicious about all of the …show more content…
In the second scene of the play, Cassius, the biggest conspirators against Caesar, is trying to plant a seed in Brutus’ head to get him to revolt. Cassius uses a thunderstorm to trick Casca into joining the revolt against Caesar. In ancient times, thunderstorms were thought to be a sign from the gods that they were mad at them. Brutus is reluctant to let Cassius and the other conspirators to make a hit list to eliminate all possibilities of a follower of Caesar to rise to power. Immediately following Caesar’s death the citizens of Rome are in awe of the past events and flock to the streets to find out what happened. This is where Brutus and Cassius try to tell the citizens why they murdered their leader in cold blood. Finally, after Caesar’s death a war breaks out and Brutus figures out that he has just made a huge mistake by killing Caesar. In conclusion, Brutus was a devoted Roman and would do anything necessary to secure the ideals and beliefs of the state; he even went as far as murdering his best friend in cold …show more content…
The two governments used to make and play hateful propaganda movies about one another. Caesar and Brutus were like brothers up until Caesar gained too much power in Brutus’ eyes. Thus, a major difference between Brutus and Julius Caesar, and Hitler and Stalin, is that Stalin may have been betrayed, but he was not directly affected by the backstabbing. Unfortunately more than 3 million Soviet troops perished instead of just one death of a leader. In conclusion, the lives and experiences of Hitler and Stalin, and Brutus and Caesar, may have been similar but were yet very different in their own
To start, Julius Caesar is the leader of Rome and has just returned to Rome prior to defeating Pompey’s armies in a foreign land. Caesar doesn’t actually want to be king, even when the citizens of Rome presented him with a crown three times. Caesar is completely oblivious to the conspiracies against him. Caesar finally gets suspicious about all of the …show more content…
In the second scene of the play, Cassius, the biggest conspirators against Caesar, is trying to plant a seed in Brutus’ head to get him to revolt. Cassius uses a thunderstorm to trick Casca into joining the revolt against Caesar. In ancient times, thunderstorms were thought to be a sign from the gods that they were mad at them. Brutus is reluctant to let Cassius and the other conspirators to make a hit list to eliminate all possibilities of a follower of Caesar to rise to power. Immediately following Caesar’s death the citizens of Rome are in awe of the past events and flock to the streets to find out what happened. This is where Brutus and Cassius try to tell the citizens why they murdered their leader in cold blood. Finally, after Caesar’s death a war breaks out and Brutus figures out that he has just made a huge mistake by killing Caesar. In conclusion, Brutus was a devoted Roman and would do anything necessary to secure the ideals and beliefs of the state; he even went as far as murdering his best friend in cold …show more content…
The two governments used to make and play hateful propaganda movies about one another. Caesar and Brutus were like brothers up until Caesar gained too much power in Brutus’ eyes. Thus, a major difference between Brutus and Julius Caesar, and Hitler and Stalin, is that Stalin may have been betrayed, but he was not directly affected by the backstabbing. Unfortunately more than 3 million Soviet troops perished instead of just one death of a leader. In conclusion, the lives and experiences of Hitler and Stalin, and Brutus and Caesar, may have been similar but were yet very different in their own