Marcus Brigstocke

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Why do politics and relationships affect each other in so many different ways? Sometimes people don’t even notice what they doing when comes to these two things. They become completely oblivious to what is going on around them and then ask themselves why are these things happening. It is crucial to pay attention when politics and relationships start to mix because of what can happen in the future whether it be good or bad decision. Tragedy of Julius Caesar by…

In the playwright, Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, two of the protagonists in the play take to the public to win over and manipulate the crowd while discussing the major event that had just taken place. Julius Caesar, whom the people wanted to be their king, had just been assassinated by Brutus and the other conspirators, so in a way to try and sate the crowd, Brutus and Antony both gave speeches. However, both speeches were able to influence and gain the support of the crowd in…

Persuasion influences our society by the environment, leaders, and knowledge that dictates the decisions of the world. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Antony uses persuasion to manipulate the audience for his own political agenda. The play takes place in Ancient Rome, where the senators have all gathered with concerns of their leader, Julius Caesar, and fears his growing ambition. A small group senators formed a group of conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius, to…

From the Republic’s inception to the Western Empire’s demise the aristocratic elite believed they were Rome’s best men and were therefore the only ones truly suited to lead. It was they who rid Rome of the Etruscan Emperor, after which they assumed the mantle of “preservers of [Rome’s] sacred tradition.” Later, like the Greeks, the Roman elite developed a constitutional government, “which paralleled the Greek achievement of rationalizing and secularizing politics and law.” This constitution was…

Caligula the tyrant caligula a man born into power would be in trusted with leading the roman empire to success. some leaders would be known for there leadership or kindness. caligula unfortunately would be known as a tyrant that would lead to his death by the hands of his roman people. “let them hate me so long as they as they fear me”. Caligula would be hated and feared for his murderous ways. he is known to have ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the…

The senate in the Roman Republic had created a nice life for themselves with little to no opposition. The senate made their decisions based on what would make them wealthier and there for more powerful in the society of the Roman Republic. The rich got richer, the poor poorer and a few aspiring politicians saw the chance to make a name for themselves using that unfortunate fact in the Roman Republic’s history. This tactic was employed by the Gracchus brothers and that caused a tremor in the…

Imagine living in an empire where your leader was assassinated by his close friend. What would you do? In Rome’s case, the death of Julius Caesar brought fear and chaos. Many Romans anxiously demanded reasons for Caesars death from two people, Brutus, who planned and carried out the assassination of Caesar and a close friend of Caesar, and Mark Antony, who was a high ranking official and also a close friend of Caesar. Both Brutus and Mark Antony had different views on the death of Julius Caesar…

“Betray a friend, and often find thyself ruined.” In the story “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”, Caesar’s best friend Brutus, is fighting an internal conflict with himself because he has to pick a side of either his best friend Julius Caesar’s side or Rome’s side. Brutus picks Rome’s side and kills Caesar for the good of Rome, later on in the story Brutus “kills himself” because his life got harder once he killed Caesar and people didn’t handle it anymore. Betrayal from a friend is worse than…

“There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.” In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, there is a conspiracy planning to kill Caesar because they believe that he is becoming “too ambitious”. Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia, who had nightmares about Caesar being killed if he were to go to the Senate, but trickery was used to talk him into going even though it was beyond Calpurnia’s wishes. Caesar is told to “Beware the Ides of March” by the Soothsayer,…

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and Regina George The society in Rome was a lot like the high school in Mean Girls. Julius Caesar was very similar to Mean Girls, and Julius Caesar is still relevant today because there are a lot of people in the world who are still violent and hurtful to each other like how Brutus was to Caesar. Julius Caesar was the soon to be leader of Rome. There were a lot of people who liked Caesar and there were a lot of people who did not like Caesar.The same thing happened…