The Tragedy of Julius Caesar anyone?

Answer 1

shygurl,

If you're serious about this, and if you mean what is the tragedy is about:

The Romans had a republic for almost five hundred years, from the time they ended their monarchy--it always happens violently because kings don't like to leave their thrones--to the time of Julius Caesar. Julius was an army commander and decided that he could and should become Imperator, or emperor. He called it "princeps," which means "first," and he said it meant "first among equals." That, of course, was a fiction.

So he wanted to be emperor. That's the tension in the play. Here's this fellow who wants to become king. They got rid of their kings long ago, the Senate and people rule Rome (that's the meaning of those "SPQR" signs we see in Roman friezes and in movies. It's an abbreviation for "Senatum populusque Romanum," or "The Senate and People of Rome"), and this Man Who Would Be King should not put a free people under a dictator's yoke ("dictator" is a Latin word, to. It means one who's words are law. The word literally is "speaker"), but he is going to try. The people sure like him because he's a victorious general. His friends who love Rome are very worried.

That's why Brutus and others have the conversations they do. It's all about politics and freedom and not wanting a dictator. That's why Brutus is really the central figure in the play, not Caesar. He, Caesar's friend, has to wrestle through the conflicting demands of friendship, honor, patriotism (in it's technical meaning of love of one's homeland. If Caesar becomes dictator, the land Brutus loves will cease to exist). Brutus decides, as did the conspiritors at Hitler's assassination, that the leader, the creator of the problem, should die. Only Brutus must kill his friend because he loves Rome more.

You'll note the manipulating of the crowd that goes on in the speeches after Caesar's death. Brutus is noble and high-minded. Mark Antony is a rabble-rouser, a manipulator of emotions. The crowd (Shakespeare seems to be suspicious of crowds) believes the manipulator and surges out to kill the conspiritors, killing an innocent poet with the same name as one of Caesar's killers along the way (Cinna) even though they know he's not the man they're looking for: "Tear him for his bad verses," they cry.

Marcus Brutus is the best man in the play, and yet is dead at the end of the play. He fled Rome after the assasination, then later, hearing that Octavian and Antony were fighting each other, marched on Rome, apparently to restore the Republic.. Octavian and Antony declared a truce and marched to meet Brutus, which they did at the Battle of Philippi. Antony was defeated at first, but then Brutus was defeated by Octavian, and Brutus committed suicide.

Rome had a dictator after all. The assassination of Julius Caesar was for nothing. Fighting over the throne was quite common--most of Shakespeare's historical plays are about that, though usually they are set in the Wars of the Roses, where the houses of Lancaster and York fight over the throne of England. Julius Caesar shows that whether in London or Rome, fighting over a throne is always a nasty business where someone gets killed.

Answer 2

A Tragedy and Historical play By Shakespeare.Julious killed by Brutus for saving Rome from slavery.

Answer 3

Raped, pillaged, murdered and destroyed his way across most of the known world, created millions of slaves out of previously happy people simply because they didnt want to hand over their wealth and land to him and become part of Rome, yeah he was a wonderful guy! Brutus did the world a favour!

Answer 4

What do you advise, what does it advise? it will be describing the injuries inflicted on Caesar via technique of Brutus, Cassius and Casca. it will be telling you to look how Caeser become betrayed and died via the fingers of those he depended on maximum.

Answer 5

Yes to be stabbed in the back by your best friend and then become the catch word for that act is not up to much.

Answer 6

Betrayed by people he trusted, including his best friend, because of political B.S. and jealousy.

Answer 7

Yeah, poor bisexual guy.