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Compare And Contrast Cinna And Julius Caesar

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The northern Americans rejoiced after the civil war similar to the Roman citizens in the beginning of act one when Caesar was to return home after defeating Pompey. The Roman people were ecstatic to hear he would return home and was not defeated. The northern Americans were relieved to know that slavery would soon end and they were in a safer time now. Both the Romans and the Americans were relieved to know they were safe in good hands. "What was planned was nothing less than the choreographed decapitation of the government". This idiom gestured to Lincoln's assassination as a planned end to the government. This figure of speech was added to the article to add dimension. The quote "hundreds of innocent suspects were rounded up, often on the flimsiest of evidence" explains the great numbers of blameless Americans taken in for questioning on little evidence. Similarly, in act 3 scene 3 of Julius Caesar, a poet addressed by the name Cinna is accused of being a part of the conspiracy. This is because there is a conspirator who also goes by the name Cinna, who the Roman people confused with the poet. …show more content…

Both men believed their national leader would gain more power and strip them of their freedom. Booth was a handsome, rich man loved by many similar to Cassius who was a well known honorable man in the senate. Both men were like bugs to a flame when it came to power. Lincoln may have been referred to as a "Bonaparte" because he stood against many southern american peoples views in a tyrannical way, or so they saw. The southerners saw slavery as a way of life and to take it away would be, in their case, an outrage. "still there is no denying that for Booth, hate became a preoccupation, preoccupation became fixation, and fixation became

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The people in the North and South both were very calm the days leading up to the battle. Women in the North smiled and laughed as the Confederate soldiers passed them and Confederate soldiers

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Both Lincoln and Douglass were obsessed with freedom. Another thing that they had in common was being good speakers and writers. They used the platform of the civil war to use their voices to speak and act on. Douglass was a propagandist during the civil war. He tried to convince the union to use black soldiers as well.

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Booth was a Confederate at heart because he grew up in the south. He was against the Union, President Lincoln, and the ideas they represented. Booth eventually developed a plan to kill President Lincoln, but he couldn’t do it alone. Booth looked all through the Confederate to find help. Eventually, Booth found Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Samuel Arnold to help him plan and carry out the conspiracy to assassinate not only President Lincoln, but also attempt to kill Secretary Seward and Vice President Andrew Johnson.

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Throughout the war, the North and the South’s viewpoints had been continuously changing. Their opinions were both similar and different throughout the war. Both sides initially believed they would win the war, swiftly and easily. Both also realized that their thought was wrong. The North carried the idea that they were morally just and correct.

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To kick it off, the North had a specific viewpoint on the Civil War. Northerners believed that the war would be good and would result in the abolition of slavery. In Document 6, the text states, “After this war is over, this whole country will undergo a change for the better... abolishing slavery will dignify labor; that fact of itself will revolutionize everything.”

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The Southerners did not believe that what they were doing was wrong, as is shown in Document 2 where it says, “We have never aggressed upon the North… They have robbed us of our property, they have murdered our citizens while endeavoring to reclaim that property by lawful means” This shows that the Southerners believed that the Northerners were stealing from them and were on the wrong side of the battle. The document also shows that the Southerners also believed the slaves were property and that the North were stealing property instead of saving people. When Lincoln declared slavery illegal some Southerners were not upset, and instead believed that it would help them, as shown in Document 6 when a Confederate General said, “I think Lincoln’s proclamation will produce dissensions and trouble at the North, and will thus indirectly benefit our Cause.” This shows that the Confederate soldier believed that Lincoln’s proclamation would help them in their war due to making some Union soldiers upset. The document also shows that the Confederate soldier was not upset about Lincoln’s proclamation, and even wanted it to exist.

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Lincoln was against slavery, and he “argued against the spread of slavery” (history.org). When he ran for president, the Southerners were afraid that he would attempt to end slavery, and they did not even include him on the ballot. Also, they stated that they would secede from the nation if Lincoln became president. When Lincoln was elected, “...seven states had seceded, and the Confederate States of America had been formally established…” (history.org). Lincoln’s election was the breaking point of tensions between the North and South, and when he was elected the outcome was the secession of the South.

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Lincoln’s and Douglass’s views differed from Davis’s because they did not consider the slaves as a chattel. Lincoln declared slavery illegal in the Confederate States in the famous Emancipation Proclamation. There is a famous quote form Douglass: where justice is denied and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Also, their views differed from Lydia Maria Child’s. Lincoln and Douglass believed the Constitution should be a protection against, rather than a sanction for slavery.

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After, The Supreme Court’s confirmation on the legality of slavery in the territories convinced a lot of Southerners that the Northern was seeking the destruction of the “peculiar institution” that was sustained, which made the Southern, and Northern ties almost on its last straw. Then Lincoln’s election was the final straw, and made seven of the Southern states seceding from the United States. When the Civil War was over The Union won even though their armies weren’t as great as the South’s they managed a close victory possibly because of The Union’s sheer number of troops, but even though The Union won they lost a great leader, Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated by a Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes which turned the hearts of the people of the United States dearly, thus ending the American Civil War at a cost of 620,000 soldiers from both sides, plus a great leader Abraham

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The north had the goal of restoring the union during the Civil War, and the south made it very clear they were fighting to be respected as a country. With great happiness came great repercussions of a union victory and the country back together. Post Civil War the country faced issues concerning the Emancipation Proclamation on former slaves, the era of reconstruction, and deaths on both sides. There was a lot of rehabilitating to be put into action on both sides morally and physically.     The Emancipation Proclamation declared slavery a moral issue, made it a focus of the Civil War, confirmed Europe 's rejection of the South’s war, and created new experiences for former slaves post Civil War.

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After listening to the podcast and doing some brainstorming, it finally hit me that Donald Trump is the modern-day Julius Caesar. They share some striking similarities during the high points of their lives. They are both experts in deal making and constantly have action in their lives. Both Trump and Caesar are clear headed men who are politically decisive. They both excelled at turning defeated enemies into friends, and are masters at communicating directly with the people.

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Cinna appears in this scene to tell Cassius that once Brutus has joined the conspiracy, the problems of the metaphoric storm will stop. The storm is a metaphor for what will happen if Julius Caesar starts ruling as the king of Rome. The storm has Cassius believing that if Caesar becomes king, people will catch on fire (another metaphor), it would rain fire, there would be lightning everywhere, and meteors would fall from the sky. This was why Cinna told Cassius if Brutus joined the conspiracy all of this would go away, because Cassius knows that bad things will happen if Caesar becomes king, so he says that Brutus can prevent that.

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