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Julius Caesar Perseverance Quotes

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The Fight to Keep Fighting During World War II over 60 million Japanese war captives were killed while another half a million died during the holocaust happening at the same time. Perseverance was a inexorable theme in Night, Julius Caesar, and Unbroken. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of perseverance is the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. Perseverance is being in an insular place while having to maintain a stoic and viable attitude even though people are forcing to work nonstop. Furthermore, perseverance is the abundance of courage and will to survive while people are doing everything in their power to tear the humanity away from the working. Firstly, …show more content…

Brutus first exhibits the theme in the quote, “Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar I have not slept. Between The acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in the council, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection” (Caesar 2.1 7-16). This quote demonstrates how British expresses perseverance through him not sleeping for a month due to the worry of how to approach the problem of Caesar being the emperor. The second quote showing perseverance is, “not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but he was ambitious, I slew him” (Caesar 3.2 4-8). This phrase shows the theme by Brutus not giving in to what everyone else thought to believe was going to be a great leader, but instead he fights everyone’s choice to protect Rome from what he thought would hurt it. The play Julius Caesar has a complex storyline that involves Brutus to persevere through many hardships in hope that it would protect his beloved …show more content…

One of the many quotes that develops perseverance is “Five minutes passed, then ten. Louie’s arms began to waver and go numb. His body shook. The beam tipped. The guard jabbed Louie with his gun, and Louie straightened up. Less and less blood was reaching his head, and he began to feel confused, his thoughts gauzy, the camp swimming round him. He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me. Across the compound, the Bird had stopped laughing” (Hillenbrand 296). This describes Louie’s perseverance through him holding a up a wooden beam for thirtyseven minutes which to most people doesn’t sound that difficult, but to a war prisoner thirty-seven minutes is a matter of life or death. Another quote is, “ I’m free! I’m free! I’m free” (Hillenbrand 307). Though this quote seems small and insignificant, it’s one of the most compelling there is because by saying he’s free Louie knows that he has persevered through two and a half years of straight torture in which he says later in the book that if he had to do it all over again, he’d kill himself. These two quotes along with many others shows the theme of perseverance by Louie Zamperini in

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