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Cassius compares himself to Aeneas, the great and powerful founder of Rome and Caesar to a weak and helpless elderly man, suggesting he thinks he is superior to their leader. Cassius is angry and indignant that the weak Caesar has now grown so powerful whilst Cassius is worth nothing to him.
- Language Analysis in Julius Caesar
Caesar only has 5% of the lines in Julius Caesar but his...
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- Language Analysis in Julius Caesar
Caesar. Julius Caesar, a distinguished Roman general and senator, returns to Rome after a triumphant military campaign in Spain. His recent success earns him widespread admiration among Roman ...
Julius Caesar. The conspirators charge Caesar with ambition, and his behavior substantiates this judgment: he does vie for absolute power over Rome, reveling in the homage he receives from others and in his conception of himself as a figure who will live on forever in men’s minds.
In the play, Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar, to prevent him from becoming a tyrant. Caesar's right-hand man Antony stirs up hostility against the conspirators and Rome becomes embroiled in a dramatic civil war.
The central characters include Caesar himself, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony, each representing different facets of political ideology and personal conviction.
Rather than restoring Republican balance, Caesar’s murder unleashes a brutal civil war in which the self-interest and power of the warring parties are all that matter. The first scene of the play depicts the conflict between Rome’s Republican past and Caesar’s ascendance.
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Shakespeare's chief source for Julius Caesar was Thomas North's translation of Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, by the famous historian Plutarch. Other Shakespeare plays based on events from Roman history include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. Being a historical play, Julius Caesar draws on real-life
