... ). For many people, friendship gives them a strong sense of security or true happiness. Mirroring the convincing evidence of these facts in real life, many pieces of literature demonstrate these very same truths. In fact, Shakespeare, the English playwright, used the complex theme of friendship in many of his great plays. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, friendship is developed as an illusion of where there is ... always an ulterior motive. This is indicated by the friendships of Brutus and Caesar, Mark Antony and Caesar, and Cassius and Brutus ... in order to save his life (3.1.197-206)...

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... , they respond by shouting that Brutus himself should become emperor. Sensing that the multitude is in his grasp, he finally gives the stage to Mark Antony. Antony knows that he has work to do to gain the crowd back, so he starts off with a catchy line that immediately grabs their attention: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. . . ." Unlike Brutus, Antony sees no need ... . He also pleads for them to act reasonable in this whole affair, like Brutus, suggesting that to judge against him is unjust. Since they are already on Brutus" side, he plays to the crowd by referring to Br...

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... has been one of Shakespeare's most well-known and loved tragedies. Its historical appeal is in a sense stronger than plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, which were all based around minor historical figures. This is not the case with Julius Caesar. The story of Caesar and his dramatic rise through Roman history is well known, which has further endeared both Elizabethan ... and modern audiences to this play. As his chief source in writing Julius Caesar, Shakespeare probably used Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans; written in the first ce...

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... may have had good intentions, but others were not motivated by their concern for the well-being of the Romans. The aim of this paper is to take a look at why the main people in this tragedy did what they did. Julius Caesar, the center of the big ordeal, is the first logical person to take a look at. When he first arrives, he is hailed as a great man and offered ... only power. This alone shows that his motives were not as pure as was first thought. The next person to be looked upon in Mark Antony, apparently Julius Caesar's right-hand man. He plays the part of the hero as he takes Caesa...

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