What Is the main theme of Julius Caesar that I could write a literary analysis on?

Question

I have these themes so far but they sound too mature for my writing level yeah?:
Fate versus Free Will, Public Self versus Private Self, Misinterpretations and Misreadings, Inflexibility versus Compromise, Rhetoric and Power, Idealism exacts a high price, Pride is the harbinger of destruction, Great political ambition breeds great political enmity, Deceit wears the garb of innocence, Recognize and heed warnings, Words are powerful weapons, One man’s hero is another man’s villain.

Don't try to recomend me to spark notes or cliff notes or pink monkey notes... I've already been there

THANKS =]

yeah so none of these answers make any sence... i think i might stick w/ one man's hero is another man's villain... it makes sence... if you have any other ideas, please leave them here

THANKS =]

Answer 1

Try doing your own work, it's much more fulfilling ... cheater.

Answer 2

Those only touch the surface and if I may say this without offending you are somewhat cliche.

Shakespeare's gift was in his ability to communicate a story simply as a matter of the real human conflicts that arise in history, life generally, etc. without positing one particular social or political theory or framework.

Rather than trying to foist off on the story some specific theme, what I would do is simply analyze the conflict implicit in the story.

I don't know how much Greek political rhetoric you have read, but it was a continuing debate among the greeks as to which form of government was in fact the best, and the natural pitfalls, degenerative trends of each etc. etc. etc.

Democracy supposes of course to bring with it the political empowerment of the people, but since the people are seldom equipped to capably wield that power, tyranny is often the result.

Anyway, to get to the point. The people who asassinate Ceasar suppose to preserve the integrity of the republic, but in doing so they murder a man.

The Senators perceive Ceasar, and reasonably so, as a threat to the order of law, but to preserve that order, as I said, they murder a man.

In a democracy, sometimes the people's voice can be so governed by passions that they corrupt Law in pursuit of the popular will. The welfare state is an example of this. There are people out there who work very hard and take responsibility for themselves but who pay taxes that go to encouraging other people to be lazy and seek government aid (not that all welfare is bad, this is just a general example). In a monarchy, you have one man who ostensibly exists to execute justice and mercy over the people, but instead he may exploit the people to aggrandize his own interests.

In a republic, you figure to have representatives of the people whose combined voices balance to preserve a stable acceptable modicum of law and order.

Etc. etc. etc.

The flaw in all governments however is the human element.

Julius Ceasar does not demonstrate ultimately all of these ideas you have mentioned, but rather gives us a powerful example of the eternal conflict between man's ideals and man himself.

Neither Ceasar, nor the people, nor the Senators, nor anybody in the story says to himself that he is breaking the law to effect tyranny, they all believe that they are abetting the cause of sound government, but look how Ceasar would so gladly dispense with the order of the Republic in response to the people's adulation, and see how readily the Senators murder a man to preserve what they believe to be good government, and see how unable the people are to contain their hero worship for Ceasar.

There are so many tensions in any society that any kind of government cannot be preserved except by some act contrary to law, even though government promises us the rule of law.

I would try to demonstrate how far removed men's ideals about government are from their actual activities in government.

Answer 3

Hello. Let's keep this simple. Your assignment is simply to pick among the listed themes you already posted. The real point of this assignment is to prove to your teacher that you are capable of selecting one veiwpoint (or is it 2)and, within a given forum (Julius Ceasar by Shakespeare in this case) be able to defend with evidence from the story the theme(s) you picked, and try to compare it with what is still current today. Go with whichever one you want, or whichever one you see popping up most in the story. Then take all those pop ups from the story and say THIS is the one true theme, because____-
I am sorry they picked Shakespeare on you-I hope you just enjoyed his story and learned about humans without all this attached 'stuff' messing it up. Ol' Will would have wanted it that way...

Answer 4

Full Name: Gaius Julius Caesar
The most famous of Roman generals
Caesar is remembered as one of history's greatest generals and a key ruler of the Roman empire.

Answer 5

Main Theme Of Julius Caesar

Answer 6

Compare it to Star Wars. Did you know that George Lucas was heavily influenced by reading about Roman history?

Answer 7

Thew relationship between Julius caesar and Brutus.

Answer 8

Well, you could start with the famous words he had spoken to all ... "because I am Ceasar!" out of the entities that branded to him by the Romans.

Which to me is still going on to all society... and the Brutus accomplishes trying to destroy, on your Civil Rights and Nationalism against its other.

Answer 9

the theme could be the effects of the vagaries and fickle mindedness of the baser passions of human beings whether it is now or then.

Answer 10

what about the Egyptian time when the war happens.