... most of Shakespeare's tragic plays, the hero has one main weakness, which is exploited by his rival: and finally leads to his death. Julius Caesar, the emperor of Rome, according to me, was only partially responsible for his death. Caesar portrays an ageing man, prone to epilepsy, deaf in one ear, superstitious, traditional, and susceptible to flattery-which ultimately causes his end. He ... and pays no heed to his warning. Cassius plays a very important role in framing the conspiracy. He is able to even turn Caesar's close friend Brutus against him by means of flattery, clever use of w...

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... Marcus Brutus has just given the people a legitimate excuse for his murder indignant, but, as it is clearly shown in "Julius Caesar," it is always not the man who has the most valid point that people believe, but he man that is more convincing ... uses it to his advantage in his funeral oration. In the opening section of his funeral oration for Julius Caesar, Mark Antony quickly moves the hostile crowd from believing that they are well rid of Caesar to questioning the assassination. Through language, which suggests he is contrasting his concrete experience with the conspirator ... body....

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... those in which he made poetry the organ of history, and assumed a certain tone of character and sentiment, in conformity to known facts, instead of trusting to his observations of general nature or to the unlimited indulgence of his own fancy. He wrote his play mostly based upon some historical ... facts, which helps forming the genre of the play. On the other hand, we can say that this suggests also a problem about identifying the ... of ten years while it is somewhat summarized to be easily performed on the stage. Antony is now much older than he was in the period of Julius Caesar and ...

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... seven lean years in the ancient kingdom (Genesis 41: 138). In the second century AD the Sophist philosopher Artemidorus of Daldis (who makes two brief and enigmatic appearances in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) drew together the wisdom of earlier centuries, much of it already collected in the great library of the Babylonian King Asurna at Ninevah. His researches appeared in five highly influential ... the outside world, and has a will. The conscious is the rational, self-aware aspect of the mind. The preconscious contains material accessible tot he conscious mind upon demand, such as fact...

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... the concealed meaning of his statement. Perhaps the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she means. Thus, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, when Mark Antony refers in his funeral oration to Brutus and his fellow assassins as "honorable men- he is really saying that they are totally dishonorable and not to be ... trusted. Dramatic irony occurs in a play when the audience knows facts of which the characters in the play are ignorant. The most sustained example of dramatic irony is undoubtedly Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in which...

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