William Shakespeare, one of the greatest playwrights of all time, created Julius Caesar. This play was written in 1599 and it is still studied and watched today. Julius Caesar had a story of his life that is identical to the counterparts for the epic battle between Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Julius Caesar was one of the greatest military leaders with best friend Brutus FIX and enemy Cassius. Cassius very much hates Caesar and wants to kill him and take over as king and rule what Caesar once did. Now on to the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James. The Cavaliers drafted LeBron James, and were becoming the greatest, but likewise in Julius Caesar with Brutus, LeBron James betrayed the Cavaliers, and they were brought back down to …show more content…
Likewise with LeBron James he had Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to convince him to go the Miami Heat. In both of these stories Brutus’s and Lebron’s convincers hit them right where they need to get them to do what they want them to do. Brutus’s and LeBron’s betrayals were both after a long time of serving their manager or king. The end of Julius Caesar, and when LeBron James left are also similar. When James Left it killed the Cavaliers it made them one of the worst team in the NBA again. This is the same as Julius Caesar getting killed by Brutus and his other conspirators. Although they have a lot of similarities they also have many differences. The first difference is how both the stories end. Julius Caesar end by him getting killed by the one that betrayed him and all the conspirators. With the LeBron James story he goes back to the Cleveland Cavaliers and helps them get second in the championship finals. LeBron James and Brutus both had wives that they deeply cared about. LeBron James wife did not commit suicide like Brutus’s wife did, but she did care for LeBron in many ways. In conclusion both of these stories are different and similar in so many ways. Although people must be careful with the decisions that they choose, they must know that decisions that are bad for other people can be good for that person. Provided with this information is a list of my
The Cleveland Cavaliers never had true power in the NBA, and they had never won a championship (Zillgitt and Amick). “Julius Caesar has returned to Rome after a long civil war in which he defeated the forces of Pompey, his rival for power. Caesar now has the opportunity to take full control of Rome” (Shakespeare 1.1.1). Caesar earned his power while Cleveland never had any in the first place. Julius Caesar could have easily prevented his death. He was such an arrogant person that he thought everybody loved him (Shmoop Editorial Team). The Cavaliers could not stop LeBron from leaving because he was a free agent (Zillgitt and Amick). Caesar ultimately had control over his death by not going to the capitol, but Cleveland couldn’t stop LeBron. Following Brutus’s suicide, Antony enters and says, “This was the noblest Roman of them all” (Shakespeare 5.5.68-70). LeBron James is not “noble” as Brutus is claimed to be. He is said to be whiney and a baby by players (Zillgitt and Amick). The biggest difference by far is the fact that Caesar was murdered and the Cavaliers just lost a superstar. Caesar was gone forever while Cleveland eventually landed back on their feet (Zillgitt and
Jealousy took a role in the play when Cassius was explaining to Brutus how, in Cassius’s opinion, Caesar is not better than everybody. He gave examples on the time Caesar was swimming in a lake with Cassius and nearly drowned, getting saved by Cassius. Cassius encouraged Brutus to kill Caesar because he thought Brutus was just as good, if not better, than Caesar.. The ending of Julius Caesar is important because it shows that not everything results in how people always want it to. Brutus and Cassius both commit suicide in the end of the play. The importance in the end of the play is the ending isn’t always how you want it to be. Before Cassius and Brutus split up, Brutus was explaining to Cassius that he would never kill himself. In the end, Brutus killed himself because he didn’t want to continue without his best friend,
Shakespeare’s tragedy, Julius Caesar, displays Brutus as a tragic hero, blinded loyalty and devotion. Brutus's heroic belief of honor and virtue was so powerful that it drove him to perform villainous actions and lead to his destruction.
The most predominate and important aspect In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare are the speeches given to the Roman citizens by Brutus and Antony, the two main charaters, following the death of Caesar. Brutus and Antony both spoke to the crowd,using the same rhetorical devices to express their thoughts. Both speakers used the three classical appeals employed in the speeches: ethos, which is an appeal to credibility; pathos, which is an appeal to the emotion of the audience; and logos, which is an appeal to the content and arrangement of the argument itself. Even though both speeches have the same structure Antony’s speech is significantly more effective than Brutus’s.
Antony and Cassius, unlike Brutus, never separate their private affairs from their public actions while Brutus tries to prove himself by acting only with respect to honor and virtue, completely ignoring his personal concerns. For example, Cassius disliked the fact that Caesar became “godlike” in the eyes of the Romans, so he leads Brutus to believe that Caesar had become too powerful and must die by sending him forged letters claiming that the Roman people support the death of Caesar, ultimately converting Brutus to his cause. At last Brutus ends up murdering his good friend in an act he truly believed was honorable. Marc Antony, who also shares in Cassius’ selfish trait, persuaded the conspirators that he is on their side, therefore gaining their leniency. He proceeds to persuade the plebeians of the conspirators’ injustice and gains support of the masses.
In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius are contrasting characters. They differ in the way they perceive Antony as a threat to the assassination plot, their dominance in personality, and their moral fiber. In Julius Caesar, Brutus is the more naïve, dominant and noble character, while Cassius is the more perceptive, submissive, and manipulative person.
Both Cassius and Brutus play major roles in the play Julius Caesar. Cassius and Brutus both plan Caesar’s death. Although they are working towards a common goal, Cassius and Brutus have very different motivations for doing this. On the one hand, Cassius sees it as a way to gain more power for himself while destroying the king and all his power. On the other hand, Brutus believes that in killing Caesar he is preserving peace for the Romans’ future years. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses different techniques to create biased characterizations of the two men so that readers and viewers develop identical attitudes towards each of them. In Julius Caesar, Cassius is portrayed as a greedy villain while Brutus is depicted as an
William Shakespeare’s tragic play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (TJC), is centered around Julius Caesar’s assassination. However, the story is not about Caesar, but about Brutus and Antony. They are both extremely close to Caesar, but to protect the people of Rome, Brutus assassinates him. After this event, Antony's heroic character is changing to a more villainous one. Although Brutus commits murder, Antony is truly corrupt because he manipulates the people of Rome and turns against Caesar's wishes.
In the play Julius Caesar, written and preformed by William Shakespeare, there are many characters, but two, Brutus and Cassius, stood out. The play begins in Rome where a celebration of Julius Caesar's victory over the former ruler of Rome, Pompeii. The victory leads to Caesar's betrayal by his jealous companions. Senators and other high status figures are jealous of Caesar's new and growing power, while others, like Brutus, fear the tyrannical rule Caesar could enforce. The conspirators, Brutus and Cassius being the most important, assassinate Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, better known as Antony, and Octavius Caesar, Caesar's heir to the thrown, revenge Caesar's
The speeches given by both Brutus and Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar are very persuasive to the audience that they are given to, but rhetorical devices were used in different ways in order for each to have an effect on the people of Rome. In Brutus’s speech, he uses devices such as rhetorical question and antithesis to convince the Romans that he and the conpirators did a good deed by killing Caesar. In Mark Antony’s speech, he sways them to believe that Caesar did not deserve to die, and that the conpirators were the real enemies by using rhetorical devices like rhetorical question and apostrophe. Both speeches were very
To compare humans you are simply comparing ideas. Thoughts, experiences and philosophies that all combine together to create individuals. Two experiences and two people who see the same scenario with different perspectives. Such is the way with Brutus and Cassius. This pair of Roman senators shows us the difficulty of having a realist and an idealist work together, yet the pair manages to overcome their different views on the world to work together and assassinate “the foremost man of all this world.” Though, the pair of friends and lovers differences does not simply end at idealism versus realism. The pair seems to be naturally against each other in terms as ideas, it’s a wonder that with such different personalities, oeadership and
Being Patriotic is a great thing until it goes bad. Over the course of the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus was a very impactful character. He was one of the main leaders of the conspiracy that killed Caesar. Brutus had a wife named Portia, who later in the play died. After the conspiracy killed Caesar, there were two speeches spoken one from Brutus and the other from Antony who was Caesar's right hand man. Soon after the death of Caesar, Brutus and Antony fought in a battle against each other. The battle lead to countless people left dead and Brutus kills himself. During the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare Brutus patriotism caused him to make decisions based on the good of Rome, not thinking of others’ thoughts, or opinions including his own.
Although William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar provides a largely accurate and incredibly detailed record of the assassination of its namesake, the play is regarded not as one of the Bard’s histories, but as one of his greatest tragedies. Shakespeare’s poignant lyrical interpretation of the fall of Julius Caesar is defined without a doubt as a tragedy by the sorrowful nature of the development, execution, and aftermath of Marcus Brutus’ betrayal of Julius Caesar.
Politics come with contrasting opinions. Many people can be for one thing and then for another, thus resulting in a split population. This split population can cause violence in a contrasting belief and uproar from the everyday people can occur. In the tragedy, Julius Caesar, and the real world, political opinions affect the strength of a relationship by completely destroying bonds between individuals.
Brutus a high-ranking, well-regarded Roman nobleman that killed Julius Caesar, went to the top of the ranks and was crowned king. Even though Brutus was able to become king, he was not going to get that title without killing Caesar. In the play Julius Caesar, Brutus agrees to kill Caesar and is one of the three murderers that stabbed Julius Caesar. In Act III scene i William Shakespeare writes “CASCA and the other conspirators stab CAESAR. BRUTUS stabs him last.” This is when Brutus’s fate begins because he starts listening to the wrong people such as, when Cassius uses his power and authority to convince Brutus that he loves Caesar but loves Rome more. This is quoted when Shakespeare writes in Act III scene ii, “ I say to him that my love for Caesar was no less than his. If, then, that friend demands to know why I rose up against Caesar, this is my answer: it’s not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” This shows Brutus’s major flaw and when he starts to believe things that other people tell him. Brutus shows that he is the Tragic Hero right when he agrees to kill Caesar because this is his tragic flaw that begins the downfall of himself.