MODULE C: CAESAR SPEECH REAL Frustration is what lurks in my heart. I can’t sleep. With almost 54‚000 students studying their guts out for their HSC‚ lets face it; our chance of a decent atar is bloody dismal. So why should we follow such a demonic system‚ that old hags from the board of studies have set for us? Why? Well it’s all because they have power. Power over spee ch‚ power over relationships and the power over truth. And‚ yes sadly they exploited their power to implant a bizarre truth
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their demise. In Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ Brutus has a few tragic flaws. Although Brutus is an honorable and true man‚ these flaws inhibit his actions and lead to his eventual ruin. One fatal flaw of Brutus is that he is very naïve. Brutus’ naïveté leads to a string of bad decision making. A big mistake that Brutus makes due to his naïveté is making the decision not to allow the conspiracy to kill Antony along with Caesar. When Cassius brings up killing Antony‚ Brutus tells
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basically Julius Caesar is a huge character in which people looked upon on. Except the conspirators whom wanted him gone. They tried to avoid him from the beginning to not cause the death of him. But as time came and they noticed how everyone wanted him as their king. They became jealous of him. Let’s get to know who the conspirators are and why they did this to Julius Caesar. Was it for jealousy‚ anger‚ or was it for something that no one knows. Were the conspirators wrong to kill Julius Caesar
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some of the key ideas in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Some of the key ideas that William Shakespeare conveyed to us through his play “Julius Caesar” are leadership‚ loyalty and the power of oratory. I think that these are the most important themes in the play because they have the most impact on the outcome at the end. Leadership was one of the recurring and obvious themes in the play. The leadership in Rome was questionable at the start. Julius Caesar was to be crowned as king but was blindsided
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ability to make things happen by words alone. Rhetoric and Power is a theme well used in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Mark Antony deceives the conspirators into believing he is on their side when he discovers them with Julius’ corpse‚ Brutus’ speech after killing Julius Caesar makes the Romans believe Julius was a bad person‚ Mark Antony’s speech after Julius Caesar’s death makes the Romans furious at the conspirators. In the last two situations we see the point of view the countrymen
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in the play Julius Caesar‚ written by the renowned playwright William Shakespeare. This famous quote is referring to the noble Brutus‚ one of the conspirators against Caesar. Although some might say Brutus is not true to Rome because of his betrayal of Caesar‚ these people are wrong because Brutus is willing to kill his closest friend for what he believes to be best for Rome. Brutus’ respect for Rome is the reason that he kills Caesar. He is told over and over again that Caesar is ambitious
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Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar is considered to be one of the greatest statesman and a Roman general. It is believed that Julius springs his family from the genetic factor Julia‚ the descendants of Lulus‚ who was the son of Aeneas‚ the Trojan prince‚ and the supposed son of Venus goddess. Caesar‚ the cognomen springs its origin from an ancestor born by a caesarean section. Caesar was born on 13th July 100 B.C. and died on 15th March 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was the son of Gaius Julius Caesar
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The tragic play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare develops characters to show an appearance of loyalty in order to deceive an enemy. The theme of deception is supported through interactions between Cassius and Brutus‚ the conspirators and Caesar‚ and Antony and the conspirators. It is ironic that the characters that deceive others in this play are actually being deceived themselves. As the leader of the conspirators who want Caesar dead‚ Cassius feels the Brutus needs to be a member of this
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the play. In Julius Caesar‚ a Greek tragedy written by Shakespeare‚ minor characters like the soothsayer and Pindarus contribute to the play by altering the possible outcomes. At the beginning of the play‚ Caesar had just returned to Rome after defeating Pompey. Caesar was welcomed and praised by the citizens of Rome‚ except for one man‚ the Soothsayer. Even though he didn’t praise Caesar‚ the Soothsayer didn’t criticize or condemn him either; instead‚ he warned Caesar. He told Caesar to “Beware
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with the busts of Caesar I.1.72 “These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing will make him fly an ordinary pitch‚ who else would soar above the view of men.” Caesar is being described as an individual who could be a god over other Romans and that the people could be used as Caesar’s detriment I.2.115 “Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old Anchises bear‚ so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar. And this manis now become a god” When Caesar invited Crassus to
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