"Julius Caesar" Shakespeare

julius caesar

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THE THEATRES WORKS IN ACTUAL TIME

The performance of Julius Caesar at the Flint Hills Shakespeare Festival in 2016. Flint Hills is an annual festival dedicated to his works.

persuasion

Throughout the game, characters try to convince themselves and others of many things.

themes

gender roles

At different points in the game, characters try to challenge or adhere to traditional notions about their genre

the tragedy "julius caesar" was written by shakespeare the main themes are:

The death of Caesar funeral

Caesar's funeral Is very interesting and some prefigured events end.

Suicide

In Roman times, suicide was seen as as a sign of strenght and Honor.

The plot

the tragic plot rises to its climax in this act, when Caesar is assassinated, on 15th March. It is an intensely dramatic scene in which Caesar's supposed friends gather around him, and he is stabbed by each in turn, with Brutus giving the final blow.

Shakespeare's plays are divided into five act:

This act is set in a street in Rome in February, 44 BC. General Julius Caesar has just triumphantly returned after defeating his rival, Pompey.

A military dictatorship follows, and the triumvirs, Antony, Octavius and Lepidus draw up a list of those who are to be put to death.

The conspirators gather their forces and meet the army of Octavius and Antony at Philippi, where they are defeated. Brutus and Cassius commit suicide and Antony speaks noble words of praise over Brutuss corpse.

Brutus is alone in his orchard and meditates on the state of things. While Caesar's despotism is the main theme of the first act, Brutus's republican ideology emerges in the second.

Monarchy VS republic

Nowadays we believe in democracy and are suspicius of anyone Who seeks unlimited Power, but Shakespeare and his contemporaries had no such prejudice against strong rules. Their Queen, Elizabeth I, ruled with and iron hand for fortyfive years, yet her subject had great affection for her .

CHARACTER

CAESAR

ANTONY

Caesar is the protagonist of the play, pointing out that he is the title character and the cause of all the action. He is an ageing man who stands for the past, while the conspiracy is the future and the desire for freedom.

Marco Antonio was born in Rome to a patrician family, but remained in his youth. A subsequent trip to Greece marks the turning point: he becomes a lieutenant assigned to the province of Syria, and takes command of the cavalry, demonstrating skill and courage. He was subsequently elected tribune of the plebs. In 44 BC becomes console. In 41 BC Mark Antony leaves to quell a revolt in Judea and meets Queen Cleopatra in Tarsus, follows her to Alexandria and becomes her lover.

BRUTUS

Some critics believe that he is the protagonist because he is the most complex character and the one whose psyche is explored in depth.

The language in "Julius Caesar" is considered to be pretty straightforward, reading "Julius Caesar" can feel like reading a really long poem. That's because Shakespearean drama is written in a combination of verse and prose. That's because Shakespearean drama is written in a combination of verse (poetry) and prose (the way we talk normally).

STYLE

analysis of the text

act iii scene ii: brutu's and antony's speeches (only brutus speech)

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"Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent that' you may hear." vv.1-2

Brutus starts his speech talking to his "countryman", the Romans, after Caesar's death.

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"Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour that you may believe." vv 2-4

He says that yhey should believe his words for his honor: in this verse we finds a chiasmus.

"Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus's love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."vv. 4-10

He then appeals Caesar's friend or anyone who can think he killed the dictator because Brutus didn't love him, but, with a climax, he says "...not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more..." in fact he thinks Romans would have lost their freedom becoming slaves.

"As Caesar loved me, I weep' for him;" "...as he was ambitious, I slew him..." vv. 12-15

Then, Brutus makes an antithesis between Caesar's virtus and his ambition in VV.12-16

"There is tears for his love.." "...and death for his ambition." vv15-16

"Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?" vv10-12

"Who is here so base that would be a bondman?" vv16-17

He rhetorically asks to anyone who disagree to answer, but saying he would be a vile towards Rome.

"Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?" vv.17-18

"Who is here so vile that will not love his country?" vv19-20

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When Octavian reads in Antony's will the bequest to Cleopatra and her children of Rome's eastern territories, he accuses the Egyptian queen of undermining Rome's dominance and declares war on Egypt. Antony and Cleopatra are defeated in the battle of Actium and the two take refuge in Alexandria. When Octavian has now reached the capital, Mark Antony, without escape, commits suicide. He is more charming, more practical than Brutus, and he has a subtler political mentality. He is a powerful speaker, and he is able to transform the conspiracy from an act committed in the name of freedom into a murderous crime. After Caesar's assassination, he turns the crowd against the conspirators. He repeatedly praises Brutus as an honourable man' who has killed Caesar for being too ambitious, but then he presents all the ways in which Caesar was not ambitious. His words instigate mob riots and subtly encourage the burning of the conspirators' houses.

When Caesar faints, he finds himself in the crowd so that he does not have a weak appearance in the eyes of the public.

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His many military victories have made him the most powerful man in Rome. He has been offered a crown three times, but he has always refused it. However, many senators are worried about his aspirations. Cassius, Casca and Cinna, and others are plotting against Caesar. They decide to draw Brutus into their murderous conspiracy.

At the funeral, Brutus tries to convince the angry mourners that he has been forced to kill Caesar in order to save Rome from dictatorship. Later Antony gives his funeral oration after placing the General's corpse in the market place and he succeeds in moving the listeners with his words and in inciting them to 'mutiny and rage' against Brutus.

The conspirators visit him at night in his home to persuade him of their views. In spite of a number of doubts about the 'acting', Brutus decides to kill Caesar.

He embodies a great contradiction: the human, superstitious, loving man and the arrogant ambitious politician. This is the cause of his downfall.

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Cassius convinces Brutus to join the consporcy, and when Antony uses his praise to convince the citizens of Rome that Caesar was cruelly murdered.

At the end of the game, knowing that they are over, the conspirators kill themselves to symbolically fulfill their promise of Rome. During prayer Brutus ', he told citizens that if they disagreed with his actions, he would kill himself.

An obvious symbol is Caesar being killed at the base of the statue of Pompey. This is ironic; Pompey was the defeated general Caesar in order to win the crown. Other elements to note are the uses of verbal irony and the situation, including the reading of his will. Caesar left land, money and other objects to the citizens of Rome who deny the conspiratorial reasoning for killing him in the first place.

Under her rule, the arts flourished and the economy prospered. While the rest of Europe was invelved in war - mostly between Catholics and Protestants - England enjoyed a period relatively free from civil unrest. Therefore, to Shakespeare and his contemporaries the message of this play was clear: only a strong, benevolent ruler could protect the peace and save the country from falling into chaos again.

His flaw is his permanent sense of principle and nobility. He also stands for reason, for the political idea of the ‘republic’. However, he lacks passion and does not take the crowd’s attitudes and emotions into consideration. Because of this, his words are ineffectual.

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We know that the nobility and other important figures tend to speak in "blank verse" which is formal. While The commoners, or "everyday Joes" tend to speak like we do, in regular old prose.