Julius Caesar Research Paper

Throughout world history there have been many memorable figures and substantial events to enlighten our past as well as diminish it. To begin, Julius Caesar, Roman general and politician, lived from about 100 to 44 B.C. One of the greatest military leaders in Roman history, he conquered land now known as present day France and Belgium, which originally went by the name of Gaul (Applebee 689). Marcus Brutus, a perpetual dictator, lived from about 85 to 42 B.C. (Biography.com). Mario, or originally known as “Jump Man”, is a fictional Italian plumber that was born/created in 1981 (Newman). Bowser, the leader of the Koopa Kingdom was born/created in 1985. He’s Mario’s arch enemy and is always kidnapping the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom,

“ Hence? Home, you idle creatures, get home? Is this a holiday? What know you not, being mechanical, you ought not walk upon a laboring day without the sign of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?” Referring to the Feast of Lupercal and the homecoming of Caesar (Shakespeare 1. 1. 1-5). A feast is “a periodical celebration or time of celebration, usually of a religious nature, commemoration an event, person, etc.” (“feast”). Marullus, being himself, accuses a commoner, but the commoner begs Marullus not to be angry with him for he was only celebrating in the victory that has taken place (Shakespeare 1. 1. 16-18). Upon his arrival, The soothsayer (fortune teller), calls for Caesar’s attention in which Caesar tells Casca to quiet the crowd, This is when he warns Caesar that he must, “Beware the ides of March (March 15).” Following, Brutus is in confusion to why he would be in such warning, but Caesar just says, “He is a dreamer; let us leave him, pass.” (Shakespeare 1. 2. 15-24). Later, on the day before the ides of March, Casca is speaking with Brutus. He said to him, “I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown - yet twas not a crown neither, twas a coronet and, as I told you, he put it by once. But for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again; but to my

His ancestors before him, Aeneas, the founder of Rome, carried Caesar’s father out of burning city Troy. Cassius says that he also saved Caesar for when he was drowning in the raging river (Shakespeare 1. 1. 112-115). I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber did I the tired Caesar. And this man is now become a god, and Cassius is a wretched creature and must bend his body if Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, and when the fit was on him, I did mark how he did shake. ‘Tis true, this god did shake. His coward lips did from their color fly, and that same eye whose bend doth awe the world did lose his luster. I did hear him groan. Ay, and that tongue of that bade the Romans mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, “Give me some drink, Titinius,” as a sick girl! Ye gods! It doth amaze me a man of such a feeble temper should so get the start of the majestic world and bear the palm alone (Shakespeare 1. 2. 112-131). Brutus is thinking out loud about the problems occurring with Caesar and his growing strength. “It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him. But for the general. He would be crowded. How might change his nature, there’s the question… And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg, which hatched, would as his