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CHARACTERS & QUOTES: Casca: Casca tells Brutus and Cassius about how Antony had offered Caesar the crown three times, but Caesar refused to accept it all three times. As the crowd cheered and celebrated the regeneration of Caesar's power, he suddenly fainted.”The rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty nightcaps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked Caesar, for he swooned and fell down at it.” Before he had fallen he noticed that the crowd had cheered as he rejected the crown causing him to open up his shirt and offer the commoners to cut his throat. Casca is in disbelief at what happened, even though it happened right in front of him. Casca's account demonstrates the extent of Caesar's ambition and his desire to maintain his power, even in the face of death. Brutus: Brutus struggles with conflicting emotions as he grapples with whether to join the conspiracy against Caesar. He is torn between his …show more content…

This moment reveals a vulnerability in Caesar's character, which could potentially be used against him by his enemies. The fact that he faints in the middle of a public ceremony also shows his lack of control over his own body, which could be a problem for someone in a position of power. Caesar faints after he rejects the crown for the third time. Before Caesar falls to the ground he realizes that the crowd applauds due to Caesar's rejection of the crown multiple times. When Caesar awakens he inspects that the commoners stab him in the throat.”Open his doublet and offered them his throat to cut.” This shows Caesar’s ambition and his desire to maintain power, even in the face of death. Caesar apologizes for his falling as he has the condition of “falling disease” also known as epilepsy. Caesar's explosion of weakness is a conflict due to citizens realizing that he is not as powerful as he

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Julius Caesar was ambushed by his own people. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Caesar is killed by his own people. After he is killed, Brutus and Antony address the crowd growing outside of the Capitol. In Mark Antony’s confrontational speech to the mourners, he establishes his argument that there was no real reason to kill Caesar by convincing the crowd that Caesar is ambitious; he then develops his argument by using pathos, ethos, and logos to change the mob’s stance and ultimately ends his speech by convincing the crowd that Brutus is to blame for Caesar’s death. The first way Antony persuades the audience is through his use of pathos.

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To start off, I think that Caesar should have been less trustful in his friends, and not have been so gullible. Caesar said it himself that, “She dreamt tonight she saw my statue, / which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts, / did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans came smiling and did bathe their hands in it” (2.2.81-87) . This is directly the way that Caesar dies,

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An insatiable thirst for power is Richard’s flaw as a Vice character. In the play, this aspect of his character is simply displayed by his actions to take the throne, as the audience of his time would see this as an abhorrent transgression against the divine order. In Shakespeare’s time, the mere deformity of Richard’s arm and back symbolically mark him as an evil character. The play is confined by its theatrical structure, progressing as one set of actors leave stage and another enters, often with Richard’s character using this opportunity for soliloquies, “Thus, like the formal vice Iniquity/I moralize two meanings in one word”. (III, i, 82-83)

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Samantha Durand 27 October 2015 Dunipace 4th Julius Caesar Essay Brutus is the Tragic Hero William Shakespeare wrote “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” to tell the story of the tragedy that happened to him. When Caesar was going to become king, his own friends turned into conspirators against him. Since the conspirators said that Caesar would abuse the power of being king, they decided to murder him for the sake of the Roman people.

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On the way to the capital there is the soothsayer and artimidorus that try to stop him but he ignores them when he arrives Decius I think start to ask Caesar to let his brother or cousin come back to Rome and then after that Casca is the first to stab him and Brutus is last. Caesars last words are "Et tu, Brute- Then fall Caesar!"(III.i.78). This is when he realizes wow even Brutus stabbed me my closes friend I must fall. A realization maybe I did something terrible or something to make my friend do this to

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Antony speaks to the citizens and is able- without angering the people further, making them hate him, or dishonoring Brutus openingly- to convince them that the conspirators are in the wrong. He does this in a number of ways, all proving him to be very convincing and intelligent. Antony helps the people of Rome remember the good Caesar has done for Rome, and reminds them of how he denied the crown offered to him three times. He shows them the body of Caesar, emphasizing the holes and blood, saying, "Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;" Act III, Scene II of Julius Caesar.

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The quote “Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't” by Eleanor Roosevelt gives a good overall view of how Brutus, from Julius Caesar, lived his life. In this book, Brutus made a life changing decision which, in the end, cost him his life. You may wonder what choice could be so bad that it costs you your life. Brutus committed to killing Caesar, the ruler of Rome, on the 15th of March.

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“Et tu, Brute?” Asked Caesar, drawing his last breaths before collapsing at the foot of his arch rival’s effigy, Pompey, at the Senate house. This phrase illustrates the uttermost betrayal by a confidant in the English speaking world. Being ‘stabbed’ once from behind has been enough for us to judge the person’s moral quality. Imagine being stabbed 23 times… Caesar’s assassination was led by the envious Cassius, as well as a handful of other Roman senators, including Brutus who had a strong relationship with Caesar.

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Julius Caesar is being praised by the public in a conversation by Brutus, Casca, and Cicero who think that he was being humble just for the attention. They were laughing and agreeing at the fact that he rejected the crown twice and accepted thrice after being so humble for the public at the square. He is a great leader by example if he was humble and rejected the crown until he was ready by making the public cheer him on to accept it as he can time it perfectly to control the crowd of civilians and pedestrians. They seemed to think his falling sickness, or epilepsy was being faked as he falls and sometimes foams at the mouth as if he has rabies. Marullus and Flavius are executed for being petty and removing the scarves off of Caesar’s statues

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He no longer sees the difference between his powerful public image and his vulnerable human body. Even at home in his dressing gown, far from the senators and crowds whose respect he craves, he assumes the persona of Caesar, the great man who knows no fear. Caesar has displayed a measure of humility in turning down the crown the day before, but this humility has evaporated by the time he enters into his third-person self-commentary and hastens to the Senate to accept the crown at last. Maybe this behavior confirms the conspirators charges, that Caesar will be a corrupt and evil king.. The game relates to act 2 by that there is multiple hitman which would be for example Cassius, Casca and others, they are plotting and they are persuading more to join the conspiracy against Caesar for example

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In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, both Caesar, who ignored his wife’s warning, and Brutus, who killed chose to kill himself rather than live as a loser, suffered from hubris, which ultimately led to their downfall. In act 2, scene 2, Calpurnia warns Caesar not to go to the Senate meeting because of a bad dream she had, but Caesar was too prideful and chose to not listen to her. In response to her warning, Caesar declares “ the things that threaten’d me/ Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see/ the face of Caesar, they are vanished” (Shakespeare 2.2. 10-12).

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Caesars fatal death by his strong governing peers may have been because Caesar’s hamartia is his arrogance, and this is shown consistently through his life span in the play. Since Caesar has a strong political following and position in Rome’s state, he has much arrogance in his personality and this arrogance is his hamartia which has a fatal ending to his life. If Caesar was more cautious about how he treated other people with little respect then maybe his arrogance would not have been hamartia. When the soothsayer warned Caesar about the Ides of March, if Caesar was not ignorant and arrogant then he would’ve believed the soothsayer which could of saved his life. With Caesar being so arrogant he believed that nothing bad would have ever happen to him, but if he noticed but the signs of what was to come in the Ides of March and how suspicious Cassius, Brutus, and the other congressmen were then he may of not come to a fatal death.

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In public, Caesar was the leader Rome had always wished for, a strong, valliant man that would let nothing in his way. Consequently, Caesar had a more vulnerable side to him where the reader would be able to see glimpses of throughout the play. Still, Caesar allowed his public self image to take priority in which would eventually lead to his death. Speaking historically, the great Julius Caesar was a people’s leader with a deep hunger for power in which he would do anything to

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This picture represents when Brutus, Casca, Cassius and Decius stabbed Julius Caesar to death. The first that stabbed Caesar was Casca. A couple minutes passed by, and the rest of the men followed his actions. The last one to stab him was Brutus. Noticing that Brutus, too, has joined the conspirators, Caesar, before he falls, says his final words: “Et tu, Brute?”

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