Leaders derive their power from a range of sources – military force, wealth, rank. However, leaders that we most admire win followers through the skill of persuasion. The ability of a speaker to persuade his listeners to agree with him signals that he is a powerful and astute figure. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the character of Cassius attempts to convince Brutus that Caesar should be assassinated. Brutus, however, cares deeply for Caesar and is hesitant to kill the beloved hero of Rome.
In the play Julius Caesar written by Shakespare in the seventh century. Readers today are taken back in time to Rome, around 45 BC when a man known as Julius Casear has grown very high in popularity and is rumored to be the next king. Casear in my opinion is a superstitous and ambitious superstar. My reasons of Caesar being superstitous and ambitious was found when he said in line ten of act I scene 2 "forget not, in your speed, Antonius, To touch Calpurnia for our elders say The barren, touched in this holy chase Shake off their sterile curse.
Shakespeare begins the play with the celebrations occurring after Caesar’s victory over Pompey, one who was once beloved by all of Rome. While this is occurring, Caesar receives a warning to “Beware the ides of March,” which he proceeds to shrug off. (13) Due to the belief that Caesar would lead the Roman people towards a dictatorship, Cassius’ is able to convince, through manipulation and deceptive actions, Brutus into joining a conspiracy to kill Caesar. Upon the arrival of the Ides of March, Calphurnia is able to convince Caesar to stay home.
Worried that the crowd had been completely convinced by Brutus’s words, Antony had to persuade them to be on his side, so he began his speech by appealing to their emotions or pathos. He begins his speech by calling them “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”. Being classified as his friends, Romans, and countrymen is a compliment to most people, and appeals to their emotions by feeling as if you have a strong bond with one another. By showing them that he has a bond with them, he is showing them he is not there to change their mind, but instead to talk to them as the “friends” that they are. Later, he uses empathy by telling the crowd, “You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;”.
“Antony thinks of himself to be wise, but Brutus knows himself to be a fool.” once said by William Shakespeare. Antony thinks of himself to be wise, but Brutus knows himself to be a fool. Caesar gets stabbed by the conspirators and his friend Brutus. Antony is really angry for what they did to Caesar by killing him for Brutus think he will be king.
Another example of superstition in this story is the fact that calpurnia's dream comes true. First off, the conspirators stabbed caesar thirty three times, Aligning with the many holes in caesar's’ statue. Then the conspirators smeared caesar's blood on their arms and daggers. Calpurnia also visioned a war in her dream. There was a very big war in the
Have you ever been stabbed? In the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, julius Caesar was stabbed because of people being corrupted by power and wanting more power. One person having all the power is always dangerous because power tends to corrupt those who hold it. In the play Julius Caesar they use the power of their words to sway the people to their side, to have the chance to gain more power. Senators such as Brutus, Cassius, and Caesar had too much power which led to the downfall of Rome Power tends to cause a lot of problems between people trying to get more of it, people abusing their power, and people being treated unfairly because they don’t have enough power.
Then, when the doomsday, “Ides of March,” has arrived, his beloved wife, Calpurnia, begs him not to go to the court because of a nightmare she had. Calpurnia’s nightmare foretold of his demise. Unfortunately for Caesar, Caesar brushed her off and refused to be humiliated and miss going to the court because of the warnings of a soothsayer
“Beware the ides of March” (Shakespeare. ) is one of the ways Caesar was warned of his death. Caesar was one of the possible rulers of Rome. Cassius, who wanted Brutus to rule Rome, persuaded Brutus and others that they needed to kill Caesar before he ruled Rome. So the group of people that wanted to kill Caesar made plans. They killed him on the fifteenth of March.
Like how Gatsby was blinded about the thought that he could erase the past and make Daisy his own, Maddie wasn’t able to see that St. Mary of The Woods would not of been a good fit for her. Now my sister was lucky and her false hope did not turn into her demise, it is still an example of how dreams can be
Imagine what would happen to the entire world if everybody believes in Superstition. In Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, Caesar was killed by the Roman conspirators on March 15, which was the “Ides of March”, historically in the play. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses Superstition to make it like a horror movie. Some people say that Shakespeare did not embellish the Superstition of the characters, but he just wrote about what happened. For example, Cumberland Clark says, “A tragedy dealing with the conflict between monarchical and democratic parties in the political world of Rome may seem a somewhat unpromising stage on which to introduce the Supernatural.
Another good example would be after one of Winston and Julia’s encounters he dream of his mother and how he caused her death by being greedy for food and stealing it from his own mother and
Caesar encounters many incidents when he is directly warned about his death. However, each time, he fails to accept such warnings because of his pride. The first incident is during the feast of Lupercal, when a soothsayer warns him “Beware the ides of March” (1.2.23). Without taking the warning seriously, Caesar dismisses the soothsayer as a “dreamer.” Furthermore, when he reencounters the soothsayer on the ides of March, Caesar ridicules him by saying “The ides of March are come” (3.1.1).
Throughout the tragedy of Julius Caesar, there have been numerous occasions of foreshadowing Caesar’s fate. Julius Caesar has received both direct warnings, and indirect omens that he has chosen to ignore. Firstly, Caesar has been receiving direct warnings from the soothsayer, artemidorus, and his wife, Calpurnia. Each warning is given differently, for example, the soothsayer’s warning was direct and clear “beware the ides of march”.
Superstition throughout Julius Caesar Julius Caesar, a dramatization of Roman history by Shakespeare, most definitely defied centuries of literature in order to be in the hands of students today. The play, like many of shakespeare's other works contains superstitions and omens to create suspense, foreshadowing, and characterization. Not only does the work demonstrate the topic of superstitions but we can also see this in modern day works and events. Shakespeare's work, Julius Caesar, clearly shows the concept of superstition through the play and can relate to contemporary ideas currently. Superstition, by definition, is a belief or notion not based on reason or knowledge of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, and/or occurrence.
