Julius Caesar Quotes

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Antony almost immediately urges the crowd to grieve for their once humble leader, and additionally gives them a moment to reflect on themselves and their opinions. Furthermore, Antony commences describing the most minute details of Caesar's assassination: Look, in this place ran Cassius's dagger through. See what a rent the envious Casca made. Through this, the well beloved Brutus stabbed;

Through the play Caesar is a liked person and the people of the town wanted him to be crowned king. He is a person who is trusts his friends and that ends up back firing. In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar portrays a tragic flaw, a realization, and moral ambiguity, which makes him the most tragic character. A tragic flaw that Caesar has is that he is very easily manipulated.

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.

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

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.

He openly compared himself to celestial bodies and claimed his friends were weak and easily corrupted. This opinion Caesar has is evidenced by the quote: “But I am as unchanging as the northern star” (3.1 60-61 Julius Caesar). He also staged a big showing during the feast of Lupercal to “show” his intentions of not becoming a king.. This event was not real, as it was meant to simply deceive the people into the illusion that Caesar was “too” humble to accept the status of king, as referenced by the lines of Casca, “Ay, marry, was ’t, and he put it [the crown offered by Antony] by thrice, every time gentler than other, and at every putting­-by mine honest neighbors shouted” (1.2 228-229 Julius Caesar). There are other reasons why the death of Caesar was justified.

He fails to see the true motives and intentions of those around him, such as Decius Brutus and Marcus Brutus, who eventually become part of the conspiracy against him. Julius Caesar’s tragic flaws of trusting the wrong people and his persuasive use of ethos are intertwined in Shakespeare’s play. Despite his intelligence and political acumen, Caesar’s misplaced trust in individuals who deceive him ultimately leads to his downfall. In one powerful scene, Caesar appeals to the ethos of his trusted friend Brutus, attempting to convince him of his loyalty and innocence “Et tu Brute? Then fall, Caesar!”

Due to Caesar’s ignorance to all the warnings coming to him, if he would have just listened to one, he wouldn't have been killed. Caesar had also become cocky about it in a way, for example when Caesar saw the Soothsayer who tried to warn him, Caesar told him, “The Ides of March are come” (1238). Because of his ignorance, Caesar was killed that day. Due to the reader knowing about the conspiracy and all the attempts to warn Caesar, it's hard for the audience to have shock or feel sad about Caesar's passing. Caesar’s death seems to be more of a plot point to progress Brutus’ story line and show how willing he is to save his

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.

“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.

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)

Caesar can't believe what he just read, especially to find that his best friend Brutus was in the midst of this mess. Caesar decides with great anger that he is going to fix this problem by plotting revenge to kill

In act 3 scene 1 of the play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, four noblemen attack Caesar brutally. The conspirators killed Caesar based on his arrogant behavior and hunger for power. He desperately wanted the crown. They knew that if he became king, Julius Caesar would be a tyrant. To avoid the problem, they assassinated him altogether.

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