Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar takes place in Ancient Rome, 44 BC, during this time period there was an assassination planned for Julius Caesar. Various rumors about this plan were circulating throughout Rome. Calphurnia, Caesar's wife, tries to explain to him that it is safer for him to stay home. Meanwhile, a conspirator, named Decius, combats her argument and tries to convince him to come to a senate meeting. Both Decuis and Calphurnia use several rhetorical devices to try and persuade Caesar to do what they wish.…
The Roman's godlike worship of Caesar threatens the prominence of the Senate. To retain his dominance Mark Antony chooses to become a close ally to him. Cassius, Brutus, and the other conspirators however, plot Caesar’s demise. In the end, Mark Antony finds high esteem and the conspirators receive banishment and death. The play is an example, or maybe even a warning, that our actions and reactions have real effects. Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, and Cimber respond swiftly and without thought to Caesar’s rise and pay a heavy price for it in the end. Mark Antony sees the worth in being Caesar’s friend, and their friendship benefits him when Caesar is dead. In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare the principal characters' initial reactions to Caesar’s rise affect their conclusive outcomes.…
In Act II Julius Caesar is barraged with warnings to stay home and not go to the Senate, but he ignores them. Calpurnia, his spouse, tells of a dream she had and fears for Caesar's safety. The priests also warn Caesar. However, Decius is able to persuade Caesar to go to the Senate that morning. Considering his actions and thoughts in Act II, Caesar is a ruler who rejects superstitions and is concerned about how he is perceived by others.…
It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of the conspirators. Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar is not the central character in its action; he appears in only three scenes, and is killed at the beginning of the third act. The protagonist of the play is Marcus Brutus, and the central psychological drama is his struggle between the conflicting demands of honor, patriotism, and friendship.…
Julius Caesar, a historical tragedy appeals to an audience fearing Elizabeth 1 imminent death without an heir and consequence civil war, religious conflict and external threats. embodies his values in distinctive, engaging, contrasting characters and their relationship with each other…
Even in his absence or death, the manner in which characters address Caesar, describe him, and act in his presence, reveals the authority and influence he has over people's lives. From the first scene, Caesar is presented as victorious, having vanquished his rival, Pompey, and as an extremely popular figure among the people, with the commoners even defying authorities to celebrate his victory. As the play continues into scene ii, Caesar appears before the crowds as a modern-day pop-star, surrounded by a trail of subservient entourage. Casca and Antony display complete submission to Caesar, with the latter declaring that 'when Caesar says Do this! It is done' . In Caesar's absence, fellow patricians, Brutus and Cassius, describe him as 'mighty Caesar', a man who 'has now become a God', and strides in the world 'as a Colossus' . It is therefore evident that his close subordinates are jealously affected by his power, an effect which will later germinate into conspiracy. Even after his assassination, Caesar's ghost continues the task of perpetuating the fear of his everlasting power on those he influenced. Caesar holds enough power over his subjects that he is capable of influencing them continually, in his life and…
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare is a play about honor, integrity, and political strife. Each character is faced with difficult decisions influenced either by ambition or honor. Marcus Brutus, one of the main characters of the play, although one of Caesar's best friends, is the head conspirator plotting for Caesar's death. Marcus Brutus is motivated by honor…
Written by Shakespeare more than one thousand five hundred years after Julius Caesar’s death, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy, is unique in that it contains two tragic characters, the senator Brutus and emperor Caesar. A play in five acts, Julius Caesar attempts to portray the assassination of Caesar, at that time victorious over Pompey’s sons, and the civil war that follows, culminating in the establishment of the Second Triumvirate. Although Caesar meets his end comparatively early in the third act, both Brutus and Caesar are adequately portrayed as men of high repute who, through flawed actions and decisions, meet an untimely end. In short, both are tragic heroes.…
Julius Caesar is a man with an immense amount of desire and ambition for success but when this aspiration becomes tremendous, it leads to adversity. On the morning of March 15th, Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, explains her distressful dream to Caesar. She saw his statue running blood and men bathing in it. Regardless of this, when he found out from Decius Brutus that he will to be crowned king…
The exposition of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare immediately presents the ideals that underpin the differing views of Caesar’s rising power through his two protagonists, Brutus and Cassius. Both characters posses different interpretations on Caesar’s reign on Rome, one being loyal to Rome and a love and respect for Caesar “I love him well” but the other being a spiteful and vitriolic towards a “feeble old tyrant.” This highlights the notion of Cassius’s selfish prejudice towards his own contentment, which is only shown behind closed doors. Brutus on the other hand is victim to Cassius’ vitriol and becomes the pawn as he is manipulated “poor Brutus, with himself at war,” Brutus is troubled emotionally, torn by his patriotism and his respect for Caesar, above all he has an undying love for Rome, “Brutus had rather be a villager than to repute himself a son of Rome.” It is this love for Rome that causes such internal turmoil for Brutus, through Shakespeare’s use of juxtaposition of characters, he is able to highlight to the audience, the lengths that man will go to in order to…
Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, centers around a group of traitors plotting to assassinate Emperor Julius Caesar, the main protagonists of the plot being Brutus, an easily-swayed close friend of Caesar and Cassius, a military general who dislikes the godly image of Caesar. In the play, Shakespeare demonstrates a delicate balance between the two forces of fate and free will as Brutus, Cassius, and Caesar attempt to overcome their omens and prophecies of fate but ultimately fail.…
Calphurnia is a strong individual in the play “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” and has a strong belief in omens, signs, and is very superstitious which leads her to question the events that might take place on the Ides of March at the Capitol to her husband, the great and almighty Julius Caesar. It is almost as if she sensed the danger that Caesar was in. Following her instinct, she warned him about the upcoming peril, but she was only a woman and he was Caesar, therefore he didn’t listen to her. Murder, death, chaos, and war could have all been stopped, only if Caesar would stand firm and stand back from his principles. Calphurnia was a minor character whose judgments, if listened to by Caesar, could have changed the entire course of the play.…
Relationships between characters play a great part in Julius Caesar, the Shakespearean tragedy about the scheming of Caesar's death, which then are shown to affect all aspects of Roman life. Some relationships show the concealed discord between characters, some show the conniving spirit of those who desire power, while others show how some hearts are devoted entirely to the greater good of the republic. The dialogue between Brutus and Portia, along with that of Calphurnia and Caesar, plays a significant role in the development of the plot. Portia is a symbol of Brutus's private life, a representative of correct intuition and morality, just as Calphurnia is for Caesar, but they differ in several ways, including each wife's fears and concerns, each husband's response to the pleas of each wife, the final outcome of the exchange, and both couples' dramatic function in development of the play.…
Julius Caesar is an interesting play. The play is definitely very popular and a lot of people have either read the story or they have watched the play. Everyone has his or her own views on the story. Some people may say that the conspirators were horrible or that Caesar shouldn’t have died, but some other people think the opposite. In my opinion I believe that for the most part this is Brutus’ story, and that Brutus is the protagonist and Cassius is the antagonist of the story.…
The characters have changed as well. Calpurnia is now Caesar’s sister instead of Caesar’s wife. Calpurnia is not mentioned a lot in this scene, only on passing but being Caesar's sister is justified to why she is in this particular scene. Antony and Casca are business partners of Caesar, but Cassius and Brutus are also associates of Caesar but they are the most confided associates of Caesar, they are the ones that Caesar started off when she was almost in ruins so Caesar trusts them with her life.…