Julius

In the play, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses persuasion to explain that human nature is self-serving and viewpoints can be swayed easily. Throughout the storyline characters are torn between right and wrong, especially when it comes to the murder of Julius Caesar. They use the persuasion techniques logos, pathos and ethos to swing the options of others. Logos is the use of logic and reason, pathos is the emotional appeal and lastly, ethos is the ethical appeal that shows credibility or…

Within the play Julius Caesar, as an audience, we are asked to question every character’s virtue. As the play progresses these lines between good and bad men become increasingly blurred, making it harder for the audience to distinguish the wrong from the right. Ultimately it would appear that every character is filled with both evil and good and it seems as though throughout this play Shakespeare is trying to highlight the unrealism attached to such simplistic ideas. Within Medieval England…

Villainous Temptation of Brutus Throughout Julius Caesar the question has been thrown around if Brutus was to be considered a villain or a hero. As well as the concern of Brutus being dishonorable or mistaken. All things considered, Brutus was indeed a villainous character. From the beginning of Caesar’s short reign he, Brutus, doubted his ability to rule and assumed that Caesar would become a tyrant. This feeling of going against Caesar began to blossom when people like Cassius became…

Period B Honors Ms. Andrews 3/24/16 The “True” villain of Julius Caesar There have been many trivial villains of many stories. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is just of one many of his plays who have a hard to detect villain, from the Cassius, a man with loose morals, to Caesar, a man who is told to have been a “tyrant” without many showing of this behavior. The story follows Marcus Brutus as he is led to kill Julius Caesar along with Caius Cassius and other conspirators.…

Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC by the Roman senate. They had stabbed him to death, and it was all because they were afraid of what he might do if he became the king of Rome. They were afraid because they knew all too well what could happen if there is only one; all powerful ruler. Some of the senate thought saw Julius Caesar as a tyrant. The others thought that Julius Caesar had good ideas and that maybe he would not be that bad of a king; they most likely only thought this because he…

The main themes in Julius Caesars tragedy was regicide which is the operation of killing the king and the fear of power. Caesar was gaining way too much power and was going to be an emperor which freighted the conspirators because they will end up losing. Caesar is a very important historical figure of Rome. Julius Caesar was known as being a successful general because he was the one who conquered territories outside of Rome. He also helped Rome become into a very huge empire. He became an…

Julius Caesar has many similarities and differences from real life to Shakespeare’s version of Julius Caesar. I am going to focus on the differences, similarities, and omitted facts between the two Julius Caesars. First I will tell about all the differences, then I will go through the similarities, and finally the omitted facts. Here I will tell you about the differences between the actual history of Julius Caesar and Shakespeare’s play. Shakespeare intended to play to be in the 18 century, but…

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones...Caesar was ambitious…” (Julius Caesar, Shakespeare) The play, “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare lives up to how ambitious and greedy Caesar actually was. A group of Caesar’s closest friends and men devised a plan to assassinate this ambitious ruler. Caesar was put to death by his closest adversaries in front of the people of Rome before being crowned king. Caesar’s…

could have been titled The Menacing of Cassius, or The Indecisive Brutus, or The Two-Faced Mark Antony but it’s titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. But again he died right away. But on the other hand without his death, Mark Antony wouldn’t have made his vows and the civil war wouldn’t have taken place. So it’s a toss up. First, the play is titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, but it’s more about the decisions made by other people such as Cassius, Antony, and Brutus. Cassius gets more…

At a glance, the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, portrays power changing people into autocratic leaders. But, if one ventured a closer look at the motives and the background of some of the main characters, the evidence simply does not support this theory. Corruption has little to no relation to power, as displayed by the motives of Marcus Brutus, Cassius, and Julius Caesar himself. Marcus Brutus is referred to as “The noblest Roman of them all” because his higher status never wavers…