The Voice In Sophocles Julius Caesar

Sophocles was born in 496 BC in Colonus, Athens. He was born to a wealthy family and therefore giving him the chance to take all the courses in the arts available at the time. He competed in many singing competitions, almost always winning, and performed at very important events, the most notable being the battle of Salamis, where he lead a choir in celebration of Greece’s victory against the Persians. The multi talented playwright was also an ordained priest and an actor. It was not uncommon for Sophocles to act in his own plays and even had a juggling routine in Nausicaa and The Woman Washing Clothes. Unfortunately, Sophocles’ voice became weak and he focused all his attention on writing.

Although he wrote over one hundred plays, only

Summaries: Julius Caesar tells the story of a newly elected king coming into power. Caesar is warned by a soothsayer to “beware the ides of March” but disregards it. His fellow senator Cassius is suspicious of how he will act when he is given more power than he has ever had. He believes there 's a chance that Caesar will be a bad king and that he needs to do something about it. Cassius begins to befriend Caesar’s best friend Brutus in hopes to persuade him to help take Caesar down. Brutus is easily convinced and becomes dubious of Caesar and he and Cassius create a group to make a plan on how to take Caesar’s power away. The group of conspirators come to meet at Brutus’ house and his wife Portia is wary of how he is acting. She asks him to confide in her and he agrees but the conspirators arrive again before he could tell her. Meanwhile, Caesar’s wife Calpurnia has a terrible dream depicting his death. She begs him not to go into town but a conspirator convinces him to come anyway. When he arrives, he is attacked and stabbed to death, even his supposed best friend Brutus joins in. This is where his famous line “Et tu Brutus?” comes

Antigone succeeds in her task but Creon, her future father-in-law, finds out someone went against his decree and insists they be found. As soon as the guard finds out Antigone buried the brother, he brings her to Creon to await punishment. He decides to lock her in a chamber. A blind prophet named Teiresias comes and talk to Creon. He tells Creon that the gods will side with Antigone over him and that he needs to release her. He also predicts the death of one of his children for not honoring Antigone’s brother. Creon is shaken into realization and sends servants to cover the brother’s body and he goes to set Antigone free. Soon after, a messenger comes and tells the chorus that Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s future husband, has killed himself after finding Antigone had hung herself and arguing with his father. Eurydice hears this and kills herself. The play ends with the Chorus saying that the gods may punish the proud, but it brings about