Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar The scenes which have taken place prior to the speeches of both Brutus and mark Anthony: Brutus and Cassius have worried over Caesar's all ruling behavior of late and have gotten jealous of him. The conspiracy between Brutus, Cassius and the others took place. At this time Caesar has been warned by a soothsayer to beware of the ides of March. Caesar was again warned on the day of his murder to beware of the Ides of March before he was stabbed 33 times by the conspirators. When Anthony learns of what has happened he is heart broken and makes a suggestion that he is out to cause mischief and seek revenge for Caesar's death by saying he will unleash the dogs of war. The speeches What makes this scene more dramatic then it already is by having a huge crowd just fixed upon one man. The crowd would be bustling and creating lots of noise. The colour of the people's clothes would also contribute to creating a more atmospheric scene. Also the dramatic tension of Brutus having to talk to this huge crowd is increased as it was Brutus ho murdered Caesar and now he's got to talk of Caesar to the crowd. For Brutus to really strike the crowd and get their attention he used short sharp words like "Hear" "Have" and "Censure" These are also words to command the crowd to do something. Brutus causes tension in his closing sentence when he says "Who here so vile that will
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Despite the Roman setting the themes and issues of Julius Caesar would have been relevant to the England of Shakespeare's time in a number of ways. Until Caesar's time Rome was ruled as a republic. This meant that the city was ruled by a senate, which was similar to a council which was made up of only the noblest of people. This may be why Brutus thought that he could get away with the murder of Caesar. Caesar wanted too much power , he was good friends with "Pompey the great" and a noble man who ruled over the senate. Because Caesar wanted as much power as possible he got rid of Pompey so that he could take over and rule on his own. This wasn't a very good idea because it could have led to civil war. Murellus: "Wherefore rejoice?................ That needs must light on this ingratitude." Here we see how some of the public were opposed to the idea of Caesar killing Pompey and taking over his position. But they weren't willing to take there opinions any further but if they had it may of led to a civil war. Shakespeare wrote this play in much the same way he had wrote his other plays to put across a certain point, the point in this play was to the people of his time that if you got rid of a person in power who ruled over people, it could lead to civil war. You could say that Caesar was lucky in defeating Pompey. If the public had seen this as a
Julius Caesar
JULIUS CAESAR The play Julius Caesar is about dirty politics and power in Rome, how some would do anything for leadership and anything for their city. The play opened in a lively theatrical manner, noisy citizens soon grabbed the attention of Flavius and Marullus, the importance of the crowd was immediately established. The crowd were in holiday mood ready to cheer Caesar. We saw they were easily manipulated, Flavius & Marullus interrogated some of them with questions. They speak to a carpenter and a cobbler, the cobbler is in a jolly mood and answered Marullus in an impolite manner, Marullus soon demanded them to leave, ''Tongue - tired in there guiltiness,'' is what he says. This is where we see excessive desire for power and freedom by Flavius and Marullus, in other words we see greediness and disliking of Caesar from Flavius and Marullus. Caesars wife Calphurnia, had failed to have any children, so Caesar decides that if Calphuria stands in Antony's way during the Lupercal ceremonies, then she would be able to conceive. Whilst Caesar was at the Festival of Lupercal, he was approached by a soothsayer, the soothsayer warns Caesar to ''Beware the ides of march.'' Caesar dismissed him as a dreamer and moved on, Caesar said 'He is a dreamer let us leave him: pass''. This clearly indicated Caesar did not really take into consideration what the soothsayer said. In Act 1 Scene
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar The most predominate and important aspect in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare are the speeches given to the Roman citizens by Brutus and Antony, the two main charaters, following the death of Caesar.Both Brutus and Mark Antony have two entirely different purposes and agendas in each of their speeches to the Roman citizens. Brutus' aim is to convince the throng of restless Romans that Rome has been saved thanks to the gallant conspirators for slaying the avaricious, power-hungry, Caesar. However, Antony, a loyal friend of Caesar's, wants to show Brutus and the conspirators for what they really are: nothing but savage murderers who killed Caesar out of spite and jealousy and not for the good of Rome. By doing this, Antony hopes the fickle mob will turn into a bunch of irate demagogues that will settle for nothing less than the revenge and deaths of the conspirators. Brutus' speech is a useless and ineffective from start to finish. Approaching the citizens as intelligent scholars, when in fact, the mob consists of nothing but illiterate commoners, who cannot figure out for themselves what is right from what is wrong, was Brutus' fatal mistake. Throughout the duration of the speech, Brutus mentions how he loves Caesar and how no one has more remorse for the death of Caesar than himself. After paying tribute to the miraculous life of Caesar,
Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar: English Coursework The play is set in 44BC. Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in Rome and is seen as to be dangerous and too ambitious by some. These few people grouped together and plotted in secret to murder Caesar. Brutus, the leader of the conspirators, killed him because he saw him as too ambitious and it was,' for the good of Rome'. Cassius wanted to kill him because he was jealous of how powerful he was. After Caesar is killed Brutus makes a speech to the common people and try's to persuade them with logic that he was killed for the good of Rome. Brutus is seen as an orator, this is someone who is good at public speaking, and so the people will listen to him. On this occasion it takes him a few minutes to settle them down. He is standing on steps above the crowd and is looking down on them. He repeats himself as he waits for quiet,' Believe me...may believe. He knows he has a hard task ahead of him because the people loved him and he has just killed him. His opening line he says, 'Romans, countrymen and lovers (friends)'. We see that he sees himself above them as he puts friends last. He has one excuse for killing Caesar and that is that he was too ambitious. He repeats this over and over again so that the people remember it. He has a pattern to his speech where he praises Caesar and then says he killed him because he was ambitious. This
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Although the play is called Julius Caesar, he is killed off part way though and we don't see a lot of him. So it is quite difficult to have an opinion on whether or not we feel sympathy for him. The play is set in Ancient Rome after a civil war, where Caesar has triumphed over Pompey. This sounds very similar to the civil war that Queen Elizabeth had fought with the Irish, as you could get into serious trouble to talk about you're views on the King or queen at the time. There are so many similarities in this play so it is hard to tell if we're meant to feel sympathy for Caesar or not. In this play we see themes of envy, greed and betrayal. In Act 1 scene 1 we see the triumphant return of Caesar. In this part of the play there seams to be no sympathy for Caesar by the tribunes, who are meant to be supporting him, a good example of this is in the play where a tribune says. "wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tribune follow him to Rome?" these rhetorical questions are used scornfully by Marullus and Flavius to try and discredit Caesar, the effect of this language is out of lack of sympathy. They are saying that he hasn't brought back anything good for the empire and that he has just thrown everything out of proportion, this is said with not feeling. Marullus and Flavius attempt to disobey Caesar, they are caught burning and vandalizing his
Julius Caesar.
I will never forget the ides of March that's when Caesar died it was a horrible day which I will never disregard. First let me introduce myself, my name is John I am a very wealthy man; I own a big piece of land. I wok as a stonemason that means I design mansions for the rich I get pied $111.000 for every house I design. My mother died 3 days after I was born my mum pasted away from cancer, we where not rich back than or we would have got the treatment which my mother needed and my father died 2 weeks after my mother died. My father did not have an illness he stabbed him self because of mum, he loved her dearly. I really did not like my father because my mother worked 13 hours a day even Theo she had cancer and all my father done was go out with his friend and watch live entertainment in the Capitol, he use to come home drunk and lipstick all over his face, I knew what was going on with my father. My sister ran away because my father uses to abuse her when he came home drunk that was what made me anger I couldn't do noting about it, my mother could do noting about it because she was at work most of the day. I sill thing that she is alive, I have spent 1 year trying to find her. I even put up a reward of $300.000 for who ever finds her alive. Now let me tell you about the entertainment, the entertainment is famous there's slaves from other countries which fight with
What do we learn about the characters of Cassius and Brutus in these scenes, and how does their behaviour change from one scene to the next?
Julius Caesar Question: What do we learn about the characters of Cassius and Brutus in these scenes, and how does their behaviour change from one scene to the next? Julius Caesar is the story of a political murder and a posthumous revenge. In the opening scenes of the play Rome is portrayed as being in a state of turmoil. Julius Caesar defeated the former Roman general Pompey, who used to be one of his closest friends. Pompey was also the person who gave Caesar a position of power by making him governor of Gaul. All the turmoil and problems arose as Julius Caesar was going to be crowned king of the Roman Empire. Two powerful senators Brutus and Cassius cause unrest because they are strongly opposed to the notion of Julius Caesar becoming king. In this play we are going to see the reasons why they wanted to kill Caesar and their changing relationship during the course of the play. On the one hand there is a very devious, manipulating and vengeful senator in Cassius, who will "be never at hearts ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves." Cassius is motivated by a personal achievement rather than the good of Rome. That is why Cassius loathes Caesar and is very discontented by the fact that Caesar has all the power. The other main senator who is involved in Caesar's assassination is Brutus who has another agenda for killing Caesar, which is that "it is for the general
