The Role Of Morality In Julius Caesar

The responses that the audience apprehends, alters through the exploration of intertextual perspectives. These perspectives are shaped around the composer’s attitudes in respect to context. Likewise, the political treatise The Prince(1513) written by Nicolló Machiavelli, during the sixteenth century Italian renaissance and the tragic play Julius Caesar(1599) composed during the late 16th century Elizabethan era by William Shakespeare, highlight similar contextual values of Statecraft and the Corruption linked through the role of morality to appreciate the acquisition and abuse of authority. However, both texts evoke juxtaposing responses for the audience due to their difference in context. Examining the role of morality in “Julius Caesar”,

In the listening task, “But I am as constant as the northern star”, Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusion likens Caesar’s character to the divine power. This implies the potential power that Caesar can abuse. The battle with Pompey in 48 BC, proved his ambitious nature to abuse power and to control Rome himself. Shakespeare implies that corruption is harmful in the representation of Julius Caesar as the allegorical allusions of conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth. In Antony’s soliloquy, he states “With Ate by his side… and let slip the dogs of war”. Similarly to Machiavelli, Shakespeare’s utilization of allusions of the greek god “Ate”, the Goddess of Revenge, portrays Antony’s wrath, one of the seven deadly sins of christianity, to abuse of power. Shakespeare’s attitudes were influenced by the War of Roses (1455-1487), that traumatized Shakespeare to prevent the immoral deeds of conspiracy’s for Queen Elizabeth’s fall. The wrath illustrated in Antony’s soliloquy acts an allegorical allusion to warn the specified audience of England to act against the “civil strife”. Shakespeare emphasizes the stability of the state via the role of morality in the context of the 16th century renaissance to evoke his purpose to avoid civil