Julius Caesar Hypocrisy Analysis

In, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the characters’ acts of hypocrisy at times challenge their proclaimed beliefs because of Cassius’s cowardly death and Caesar’s denial of his ability to be flattered. When Cassius is speaking to Brutus in secret, and is mimicking Caesar at a weak state, he mimicks, “Alas it cried, “give me some drink,Titinius”(25 Cassius). After Cassius has killed Caesar and is now facing a war against Antony, Cassius is hopeless at this time and begs Pindarus,an opposing soldier, “Search this bosom/As tis now guide thy sword”(66 Antony) after this Cassius is stabbed and becomes deceased. Cassius’s suicide was exempt of bravery, and his suicide nonetheless was a cowardly act because he had begged Pindarus

While Decius is speaking with Caesar, trying to flatter Caesar with the use of rhetoric into going to the capitol on The Ides of March, Caesar becomes flattered and agrees to Decius’s request after Decius has stated “Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck/Reviving blood, and that great men shall press.”(39 Decius). Later in the play, a man Metellus is attempting to gain his brother freedom from banishment by using rhetoric upon Caesar,Caesar denies his request and declares “Be not fond,/ To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood” (43 Caesar). Caesar is ultimately manipulated by Decius’s use of rhetoric, but his one-sided arrogance still leads him to a conclusion, that he is not fooled by flattering. Caesar’s inability to be flattered is false, the rhetoric used upon him by intentful characters in the play often times leads to his trickery, his proclamation of his inability to be flattered contradicts his true feelings. Thus proving Caesar’s actions challenge his true beliefs/feelings, because his proclamation of his inability to be flattered contradicts his true feelings/beliefs of