Essays on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Throughout many of Shakespeare’s plays, there has to be a tragic hero. A noble character possesses a tragic hamartia and this hamartia is what eventually leads to his downfall. There have been many arguments in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar about who the tragic hero is. Numerous people concluded that Brutus is the tragic hero...

William Shakespeare’s early writing aims to advance a philosophy of history. It asks how kingdoms are built and destroyed. The author approaches theater as a tool that might potentially elucidate key events by studying important players. For example, Julius Caesar forefronts that corruption which converts Rome’s great senatorial government into a totalitarian empire. Its title...

Julius Caesar, a play written by poet, had several characters who might have been questioned in terms of their motives and can. Some might have had sensible intentions, however others weren’t actuated by their concern for the well-being of the Romans. The aim of this paper is to require a glance at why the most...

The qualities that should embody a perfect leader consists of selflessness, influence, and accountability. The method of persuasion is best used by someone who convinces others out of their own beliefs and morals. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar, Cassius embodies a master of persuasion because of his ethical and emotional appeals. Cassius...

“The fault… is not in our stars, But in ourselves” quoted Cassius by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s plays and works are yet to be abandoned by modern society but studied and compared. Moral teachings and political and cultural criticism in his plays question the flaws of human nature. Why was Shakespeare’s works so similar to the...

Julius Caesar is said to be a tragedy play as there are many characteristics of tragic literature. However, if it’s a standard tragedy, then Julius Caesar should be our standard tragedy figure – but in fact he is gone by Act 3. There is some discussion in this play of to what extent are the...

“Hero”, “villain” these are words that are often used to depict one’s personality or purpose. However in retrospect, it is short sided to assume that a person falls under one general category. In many cases throughout history, it has been proven that there is often what is called a “tragic hero”. A tragic hero is...

This passage in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar stood out to me as profoundly meaningful, as it symbolizes the arrogance and complacency of Caesar and how those flaws lead to his downfall as a leader. This extreme arrogance inhibits Caesar to realize the impact of his actions and the plot forming against him. The only thing that...

In the average person’s life, there is typically a highly influential person who drives the emotions and thought process of that said person, and often to the point where this influence and authority becomes problematic. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is the man responsible for the problems that arise. In the...

Julius Caesar was a tragedy play written by Shakespeare in ancient Rome, about the assassination of Caesar. Within Julius Caesar, Shakespeare used a variety of different literary devices to display the themes of leadership/ power, friendship, and misinterpretation. To begin Shakespeare choose to help develop the themes of Leadership and power throughout the play, by...