Little Caesars

Did you know that Augustus Caesar was once named Octavius? Augustus Caesar was a very influential person in Rome, the world, and human civilization. I believe that he is one of the most influential people to live. During his reign he greatly affected the Roman empire. While emperor, he doubled the size of the empire and made Rome a great place to live in. Before he was an emperor, he was a soldier and was greatly affected by the people around him. As a soldier life was interesting and many…

The most prevalent practice of all though was the use rhetoric skills. Manipulation and persuasion are quintessential qualities that can be seen in civilizations till this very day. Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” illustrates the power of manipulation as the silver-tongued Julius Caesar potential ambitious plans of becoming the new king of Rome come under scrutiny by his fellow friends and peers in the Senate. Others however are looking at opportunities to increase their power. Cassius, a…

common people almost always results in your favor. It gives the conspirators strength in numbers to overcome their opposition. In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the Plebeians are easily manipulable and change their opinion three major times. The Plebeians are not deep thinkers about these decisions like Brutus had been with Cassius’ persuasiveness to murder Caesar, they simply make their decisions on their feet. The Plebeians support one side of a story and then completely change their…

Rome's most influential leaders, Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. A manipulation in which ultimately lead to their demise. Being born into a powerful family that later diminished due her influence. She used the power of seduction to persuade Roman leaders to seal her power and throne in Egypt. However, these actions resulted in political machinations within Rome in which resulted in Julius Caesar assassinated. Born within a family with…

One fallacy of human nature is the natural tendency to see things in black and white, purely good or bad, rather than for the complexities that surround and make up every person and situation. This is applicable to the Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, in which Brutus faces a moral dilemma – the safety of the future of Rome, or the life of a dear friend. In this case, either choice Brutus made would have serious repercussions, as the majority of the play documents. In the end, Brutus made the…

Julius Caesar Loyalty can typically be viewed in two ways; first, as faithfulness to commitments, obligations, or relationships, or secondly, as faithfulness to a government or leader. Both aspects of this term are showcased in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, although their display is not always obvious. People often tend to brush aside or disregard loyalty. Loyalty is frequently taken for granted and left unappreciated in facile relationships. In Julius Caesar,…

Brutus’s title of ultimate destruction Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar, one of Shakespeare’s themes is the struggle in the characters, more specifically Brutus, between honor. The characters, most notably Brutus, all have some sort of definite struggle within themselves and they gradually become blind to what is logical because the titles they are given, giving them a “cloudy” perspective on life. The repetition of “honor” continues to pop up in…

Nichols the real tragic hero of Julius Caesar The author of Julius Caesar is the great honorable William Shakespeare. Brutus, is an honorable man who was trying to keep Rome how it was when his ancestor Junius Brutus got rid of all of the rulers. The idea of a tragic hero is someone who usually comes from noble birth who suffers a catastrophe. Shakespeare uses the traditional ideas, but he also put a spin of his tragic hero’s. Shakespearean tragic hero’s included complexity, letting us see…

appeal used to lure a person into a certain conclusion. Manipulation is an art form. In order to move the audience it must be colorful and, it must provoke. Mark Antony uses all vibrant colors to create is masterpiece, to convince his audience that Caesar died for Rome. The logic within Marc Antony’s cocktail is the base while the emotion acts as his liquor. This liquor throws the people off balance, which leads the crowd to question everything they were told by Brutus. Marc Antony repeatedly…

Within the story of Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus struggles internally with himself on whether or not to kill his close friend Julius Caesar. He reasons that if he killed him then he would be stopping any chance of tyranny against the roman people from Julius Caesar’s ambitious ways; however he is very loyal to Julius so killing him could be emotionally difficult to accomplish. After some manipulation however he comes to the conclusion that the only way to save the Roman people from a life of…