Beware The Ides Of March Analysis

“ Beware the Ides of March!” (I, ii, 23) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was written by William Shakespeare in 1623. Like many other plays written by Shakespeare, there was always a message hidden in it. He wanted you to learn a lesson from his plays. Three topics that show the theme of the story are Caesar's death causing Rome to revenge, Antony’s goodness winning over Brutus’s cruelness, and Brutus being defeated by the people of Rome. In this piece I believe the theme was good always outweighs evil. One hint that Shakespeare gives to show how good outweighs evil is how the result of Caesar's death and Mark Antony’s speech causes Rome to rebel against the conspirators. Therefore this shows the theme because Mark Antony is telling the truth about what happened and now everyone is on his side, as where nobody like Brutus anymore because Caesar was only trying to do what was right for Rome. One of the most famous Shakespeare quotes is “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend
In this case it was Mark Antony. The series of events that led up to the final reveal of the play all showed that Brutus was not going to win . When the people of Rome started to rebel it showed Antony gaining power. Then when Antony’s army wins it shows that no matter how much you try the good always wins. And finally Brutus killing himself shows that everything works out the way they should. Antony didn’t end up killing the other conspirators because he believed that they didn’t do anything wrong and they were just under the influence of Brutus. He knew that deep down they were good people that loved Caesar, they just let their minds get the best of them. In the end Caesar's death was avenged and Rome’s peace was restored to what it was before. Although there are many lessons you can learn from this piece, these are a few main ones. Good will always outweigh