Marcus Goldman

Antony’s Tactics In many stories or plays, a protagonist appears and has a scheming plan to let chaos erupt. In the play ”Julius Caesar,” Mark Antony ends up being a protagonist and has a plan to make the people of Rome develop a massive amount of hatred for the conspirators. Cassius, one of the conspirators, knew that it was not a good idea to let Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral, but no one listened. Antony uses Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion to convince the people of Rome, which are “…

Thirst For Power In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most recognized and studied works in history. Throughout the play many problems arise which cause people’s judgment to cloud, which result in flawed thinking and irrational behavior, but there are only a few influential ones. One of these problems was power.Through a myriad of Caesars followers become jealous of his power, Caesar still wanted more. The thirst for power is the biggest problem in…

The play “Julius Caesar” is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. This play that took place in Rome before the first century and was a about the death a man called Julius Caesar. Both Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus are at the “funeral” of Caesar moments after he was assassinated by a group of conspirators along with Brutus. During this Brutus attempts to make the crowd believe that murdering his friend Caesar was justified. After the people calmed down when Brutus spoke Mark Antony was seething about…

The Contradiction of Brutus Despite his primary goal to prevent Rome from falling into the hands of a dictator who would ruin Rome from the inside out, Brutus himself ironically acts like a totalitarian, tyrannical, despot. Even though Brutus meets up with the other patricians planning to kill Caesar because of his threat as a king, Brutus ironically acts like a king when he overrides the other’s ideas to enforce his own logic. When Cassius confronts him in the second scene, Brutus first reveals…

Caesar’s involvement in Gallic wars: Best for Roman Empire or Self-Promotion? Julius Caesar, one of many glorious Roman leaders, was a well known military leader but he was also known for being a gigantic narcissist. So, was he justified in getting involved in the Gallic wars? To understand Caesar’s reasoning behind getting into the war, we must first know what happened in Gaul. Caesar was on a military high in a military low. He had just gotten noticed as a great military leader and…

The nobel Marcus Brutus from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, is the tragic hero. Brutus suffers a catastrophe when he has to decide to stay loyal to his country or to stay loyal to his friend, Julius Caesar. Brutus thought he was doing the right thing for Rome, but that is not what everyone else thought. Some of the Romans thought that Caesar was a noble man who deserved to rule Rome. Brutus’ actions affect all the people of Rome, and cause many problems between them.. The…

There are mostly two kinds of leaders, an arrogant leader, and a confident leader. Of course there are different kinds of leaders, but most leaders are divided into those two categories. An arrogant leader would mostly be all-talk and would be disliked by his own subordinates. A skilled arrogant leader, however, would be more liked by his subordinates since his skills would make up for his attitude. It is the same with a confident, it mostly depends on an individual’s skill. An example of an…

Imagine that you are a citizen in Rome, and your ruler, Julius Caesar, just got murdered. Your emotions are everywhere and you are very vulnerable. That's how the people of Rome felt in the play, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar." The Romans where looking for any type of clarity on why this happened, so both Brutus and Mark Antony delivered speeches. Brutus used the rhetorical devices antithesis, epimone, and logos, while Mark Antony used paralipsis and pathos, to evoke the preferred mob…

The "Assyrian Empire Inscription of Tiglathpileser I" was told by Tiglathpileser, the king and ruler of the Assyrians, himself as evident by it being dictated in the first person context. There is no date that indicates when the text was written, but Tiglathpileser lived from 1115-1077 BCE and it would have been written after Tiglathpileser conquered the land of Qummuh and traversed Kashiari. It is an autobiographical piece, being as it was dictated by Tiglathpileser and he was also the subject…

The first speech we hear is Brutus'. In his speech, he justifies why he killed Julius Caesar, and to also gain the backing of the other Romans. A hyperbole is used in Antony's speech, "When the poor hath cried, Caesar had wept." Caesar didn't actually cry, but he was very upset. This shows that Caesar wasn't as bad as he seemed. Brutus tests the listeners to see if are proud to be Roman. "Who here are so vile that will not love his country." This entertains the audience and causes them to think…