For this assignment, I will be playing the role of Portia from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Act 2 Scene 1. Portia is the daughter of Cato and the devoted wife of Brutus. She is proud of her identity as related to two eminent families of Rome and takes her role as Brutus’s wife very seriously. She makes her first appearance in the act just after Caesar’s murder conspirators exit from their home. Portia is a beautiful and intelligent woman as...
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Chaos, is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “complete disorder and confusion,” (Oxford University Press). In Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, the reporter figure Casca, accidentally meets Cicero, a prominent senator in Roman politics. From lines 15-32, Casca gives a long speech where he reveals more details about the storm of which he has a great fear. The first image of significance Casca identifies is a “common slave,” (1.3.15) who held up his left hand which is on fire but remains...
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Brutus: Innocent Your honor; ladies and gentlemen of the jury, imperial Prosecutor, John Smith, would have you convict my client, Marcus Junius Brutus of conspiracy, negligence, and regicide. My client pleads guilty to the charge of negligence, but to the charges of conspiracy and regicide, he pleads not guilty. Let's consider the testimony of key witness William Shakespeare, in Act 4, Scene 2. “According to Shakespeare’s statement, some power-hungry men were all fighting to do what they thought was the...
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Conflicting perspectives emerge throughout Julius Caesar, as different characters hold different perspectives as each character has different motives and interests. In Julius Caesar these conflicting perspectives are shown through the stylistic features of a play, the representation of the perspectives through these features helps to portray the conflicting perspectives in a unique way. The stylistic features and characterization used in Julius Caesar allow the opposing motives and interests of numerous characters to be established throughout the play. One way this...
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Personal Response Can you think of any contemporary political leaders who are like Brutus and Cassius? Who are they? I could say that Brutus and Cassius are like George Bush and Tony Blair. While Cassius convinces Brutus to join the conspiracy of killing Caesar because he had too much power, Bush was able to convince Blair that Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction and the only way to stop him was to invade his country. Analyzing Literature Shakespeare...
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“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” - William Shakespeare. We are able to observe that when a wrong is committed against a character, they then feel as if they have validation to use any means necessary to correct this wrong, and how adhering to one’s sense of self-respect can allow one to find a sense of justice in a situation that began...
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