... motives and will. Some 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 the crown numerous times, refusing it each time. He is clearly the hero of the people for that time. The question of his heroism ... Cassius dead, he also runs upon his sword. Over his dead body, even ...

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... brother's guardians made him, Ptolemy XIII, the pharaoh. Also in 48 B.C., Julius Caesar came to visit Alexandria, the capital of Egypt. Julius Caesar was a very powerful man because he was the dictator of Rome. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar fell in love. A major problem was that Julius Caesar was already married. Caesar loved Cleopatra a lot, and he put a gilt-bronze statue of her in a public forum. Caesar made Cleopatra ruler of Egypt again, but this time with a different ... snake. She was buried next to Antony. After Cleopatra died, Octavian and the Romans had Caesarian killed, since t...

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In the tragedy of Julius Caesar, after the death of Caesar both Brutus and Antony spoke at Caesar's funeral. Brutus finished his speech trying to convince the crowd that they did the right thing to kill Caesar because he was ambitious. Antony then enters with Caesar's corpse awaiting his turn to speak to the Roman citizens. Antony begins by praising Caesar even though he claims that his intent is not to praise him, but to ... because he knows what they want and what they are expecting. He cries and one the citizens has sympathy towards him which then convinces the rest of the citizens to feel...

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... want to can take time and effort. Persuasion takes a lot of words used in a good, persuasive way. In "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Marc Antony took his time and effort to persuade the people of Rome. Antony uses emotional appeal to move the crowd to tears. For example, he says, "my heart is the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me" ... (750). This shows that Antony's display of grief was intentional. Antony, as he ... 756). This shows that Antony want planned to stir the crowd's emotion by proving Caesar was a noble man. By sharing t...

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... the play Julius Caesar, the tragedy of the play was directed mainly at one specific character, Marcus Brutus. Brutus was the tragic hero of the play, because of his idealistic and pragmatic qualities. The mindset that Brutus possessed only allowed him to see the world and its people from one point of view. This point of view allowed him to make judgments that assumed only the best of people. This tragic weakness resulted in many errors throughout the ... made all his decisions simply by expecting that all were as honorable as himself. In this play Cassius and a number of fellow conspira...

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... Shakespeare make a mistake when he wrote his famous tragedy Julius Caesar 400 years ago? Should he have called the play Marcus Brutus? The play is about politics and treachery in ancient Rome. Julius Caeser is the most famous and powerful military general in Rome, and he wants to rule the republic as its new king, but many of Rome's nobles and senators fear what he will ... in the senate on the Ides of March, 44 B.C. By the end of the play his murderers have been killed in battle and a new tirveverge has been formed to lead Rome into the future. The play is a tragedy because it consists ...

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... Shakespeare could easily create Caesar as such an evil man is because Shakespeare could put his words into Caesar's mouth and into the mouths of the other characters. This allowed Shakespeare to create any picture of Julius Caesar he wanted. Caesar's behavior towards the senate and Cassius was very different in Shakespeare's tragedy in comparison to Caesar's actual history. For instance, in the play Julius Caesar, Caesar was courteous and friendly towards the senate and their ideas ... . Where as historically Caesar was very dishonest with them. He tried ... ...

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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a play written by William Shakespeare, told a story of love, betrayal, and enormous greed. This paper will analyze the motivation, revelation, and dynamic qualities of the character, Brutus. What was Brutus" motivation in this play? It was simply to bring Rome out from under the dictatorship it fell prisoner to. Brutus felt Caesar already controlled much more than necessary. In Act I, scene ii, lines 78-79 Caesar ... , not an oath. If not the face of men," (2.1.114). These powerful words of Brutus propose he is a man of loyalty and honesty. Brutus is also reveale...

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