Examples Of Friendship In Julius Caesar

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions“ -Confucius. This quote is relevant because in Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony gave speeches after Caesar’s death. A speaker has to make connections with the audience, use creativity, and have passion. Antony was rhetoric, cunning, and used pathos to connect with the people of Rome. Brutus was also rhetoric, honorable, and used logos and ethos to influence the audience. Overall, Brutus did not influence the crowd like he hoped to. Antony knew how he was going to persuade the people before he gave his speech.

Selflessness, a noble trait to have, but when one puts everything before themselves, it will only lead to tragedy. The character Brutus in ¨The tragedy of Julius Caesar” makes the choice to murder his personal friend Caesar, the soon to be ruler of Rome, for the future of his country. This leads to Caesar's second in command, Antony, to pursue Brutus and the others involved in the murder until their death. In William Shakespeare's play ¨The tragedy of Julius Caesar” Brutus through his selflessness in acting for the better of Rome instead of himself, and putting aside personal matters for his country becomes the tragic character.

Aristotle once said, “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” There are many things that go into the process of friendship. Some people deal with friendship one way while others deal with it in another way. Cicero had a lot to say about the different aspects of friendship in his time, but how would he view modern friendship? Some friendships Cicero may not be proud of; like the common relationships that are forced on in a classroom or work place and the lack of allowing nature to take control and make the friendships that are meant to happen. However, Cicero would be happy with the way the higher level friendships have developed in virtue

Throughout Cicero’s writing “On Friendship” he stresses the ideals and attributes that go along with having a respectable and a long-lasting friendship. Cicero was a large advocate that friendship was a virtuous and delicate attribute. He wrote through Laelius’ friendship with Scipio to discuss the different ideals and aspects of a why friendship should be treated carefully. Cicero holds friendship to such a significantly high standard, thus why he would agree with the quote by E.M Forster “If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” Cicero would have agreed with this because he writes through Laelius and says we should do more for our friends then for ourselves, one should not be friends with tyrants and politics should not be involved with friendships. Cicero evidently holds friendship to a high esteem and believes it should take priority.

     In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare shows how friends often betray each other. Julius Caesar is about to be crowned king of Rome, when some well-known Romans decide that it is not a good idea for this to happen. They form a conspiracy and kill Caesar. Brutus, an honorable Roman and a very good friend of Caesar’s, betrays Caesar by killing him for the good of Rome. Antony, Caesar’s best friend and another honorable Roman, betrays Brutus by turning against the conspirators. Cassius, a respected Roman, and Brutus betray each other by arguing and destroying their friendship. All this betraying lead to many deaths in the play.

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” -Mark Twain. Brutus would of never believed that he has been manipulated into his actions. Brutus was always blinded at the fact that his actions towards people were wrong. Brutus was one of Caesar's good and trusted friends. Cassius, not a huge fan of Caesar, did not like the idea of Caesar as king, for his weaknesses and had a plan to assassinate Caesar. As the leader, he believed Brutus would be a good member for the group for being respected and well-liked by the citizens of Rome. Cassius was able to manipulate him into joining the conspirators. After the assassination of Caesar all his respect from the citizens started to fade away. Antony, a very good friend of Caesar, was able to turn Rome against Brutus. Due to all the hatred from the citizens, he had to flee town and fight a war against Antony and Rome. After losing the war, his wife , and everything he once had, he committed suicide to avoid being killed by an enemy. In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Brutus tragic flaw of being gullible and patriotic caused him to murder a devoted friend and betrayed Rome's trust.

Evoking the Human Nature through Speech ​Had a person listened to an important speech, but fell asleep on it instead? Well, many Romans were fortunately feeling persuaded from listening to Mark Antony’s speech in the play, Julius Caesar. He was granted permission to speak at Caesar’s funeral, and took advantage of that opportunity. In his speech, he used three methods of persuasion: ethos for character, logos for reasoning, and pathos for emotion. Mark Antony was able to convince the Roman people by connecting to them through five appeals: Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Apostrophe,Alliteration and Irony.

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one must read the text closely to track the shifting motivations and loyalties of each character as the play progresses. An important factor that must be kept in mind while reading is the degree of loyalty, in other words, the degree to which characters act out of a motivation to help others. Throughout the play, each character's current degree of loyalty to others is clearly exhibited by words or behavior – this holds true for the characters of Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Portia, and Calpurnia. The focus on loyalty is critical because before the play ends an even-handed justice is meted out to a number of people who fail to live up to an expected standard of

Lend Me Your Ears “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” begins Marc Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. He cleverly appeals to the audience using an anti-ethos tactic towards Brutus discrediting his “honorable” judgment. Marc Anthony uses repetition of “honorable man” with a negative connotation to create antithesis in which it discredited Brutus. Antony himself appeals to the crowd by building his credibility through him being loyal to Caesar,” He was my friend, faithful and just to me,” says Antony. He continues to make himself seem loyal to Caesar as he uses hyperbole in his statement, “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, /

The clang of the swords on the shields pierced General Julius Caesar’s ear. He couldn’t wait till the war against the Greeks was over and he could return home to his wife. He slaughtered 113 enemy soldiers and was still on the hunt to find one. He stepped over 47 bodies, some of which were still breathing and groaning their last breaths on the eastern shore of the river Acheron. Caesar's nemesis was General Brutus,the leader of the greek army, and his old best friend. After the battle at the River of Acheron, General Julius Caesar rode back to his camp, Gleaming in his Ice-white armour, shining in his glory after his victory vs the Greeks.

Loyalty is synonymous with honesty, trustworthiness and honour. But if power is so close to your grasp, what would you do to get it? Good morning Mr Houghton and fellow students, today I will be speaking about how the concept of loyalty is shaped by Machiavelli’s “The Prince” as well as Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” and how being loyal to your country is different from being loyal to your leader, with conflicting loyalty, non-conflicting loyalty and loyalty to all.

Friendships in Julius Caesar are an important part of the story. Julius and Brutus were friends at the beginning, but their friendship lead to Julius’s death. Their friendship allowed Brutus to be aware of Julius’s flaws. He was close to Caesar and he thought that he might become a tyrant. Brutus loved Rome and did not want anything to happen to it or its people.

The toughest part of friendship is when friends backstab you. Brutus, one of the main characters in the play Julius Caesar. Brutus is a dishonorable man because he did this very thing to his dearest friend. Brutus joined the conspiracy group out of envy for Caesar. The conspiracy group came about when Caesar was getting popular with the people.

In the novel, “The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar”, the author, William Shakespeare included the negative side of friendship showing Julius

What does the word friendship mean in the play Julius Caesar? In the play Julius Caesar friendships are more of a political allegiance made of the sake of convenience and self-preservation. The reason I believe this is because Antony and Octavius joined forces so they could kill the conspirators and Brutus and cassius joined forces because Cassius needed the people’s support. Antony and Octavius worked together to get so they could gain control of Rome again.