Julius Vacillation In Teju Cole's Open City

Julius was a very opinionated person, who was all about himself and not looking after his own team or anyone else for that matter. For example when Julius was confronted by Gerry, during this conversation Julius said ‘I’m supposed to wear out myself for this team? What team? Nope that’s not what I’m going to do is I’m going to look after myself.’ When this confrontation was happening there were many close up camera shots, this was because the director wanted to show the emotion and anger in the faces of Gerry and Julius. This shows that Julius is a very opinionated person and he only cares about himself, this is shown in what he told Julius.

Caesar says that cowards die many times before their death and death will come when it will come. Then Caesar asked a servant what the augurers say about the subject and they say they found no heart within the beast. This is a simple act of showing how superstitious Caesar is sends him in to a rage and he decides he will go to the capitol. Then Calpurnia (the voice of reason) says “your wisdom is consumed in confidence” and tells him to tell them it is her fear and not his own that keeps him from the capitol. And Caesar grudgingly agrees. Then Decius Brutus comes in and ruins the whole thing by telling Caesar that her dream was telling how great he is and Decius manages to flatter Caesar enough that he decides to go to the capitol and he tells Calpurnia how foolish her dreams seem now and he leaves. Calpurnia, as we know was right the whole time and Caesar gets assassinated at the capitol. This scene was important in foreshadowing Caesar’s death and showing how overconfident Caesar is, and although Calpurnia’s warning was only one of many she seems to be the only warning with real impact, that is until Decius Brutus comes in to play.

Unlike the common view of leaders, the potential leaders of Julius Caesar are not necessarily nice or giving. However, sometimes that is necessary. In the play Julius Caesar, a long tale of leadership shows the true qualities of the greatest leaders. Where the reader finds themselves started is at the point which Antony and Caesar, the overconfident leader of Rome, are discussing people around them. This discussion boils to a point in which Antony and Caesar discuss the possibility of Cassius being a threat to Caesar. Later, readers find Cassius is indeed a threat, as he and multiple others, including Brutus, stab Caesar to death. Antony then brings Caesar’s body to the multitude, and with a great speech inspires a hatred for those who wrongfully stabbed him. At the next point Antony is seen, he and Octavius are the new rulers of Rome. These two comrades go and finally eliminate the last of the traitors, Cassius and Brutus, in a battle that cements the two as the new leaders of Rome. Throughout all these actions, one man particularly showed that he should control the Roman Empire. Antony was created to be Rome’s leader in Julius Caesar, where William Shakespeare gave him inspirational abilities, persuasiveness, and fearlessness which are unparalleled.

In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar there were many people that had major faults that hurt them but also so helped them in some cases. For example; Antony, Cassius, Brutus, and even Caesar himself. in that day in age patriotism was a noble thing and as many people stated Brutus was a noble man. Brutus didn't believe Caesar should have been in power and that Caesar was overly ambitious and that his ambition would cause problems for the kingdom.

The narrator, describing their viewpoint as coming from “All of” their eyes as opposed to just “their eyes”, suggests that while Julius was a hero for Victor and Adrian, he was also a hero for the wealth of people who live on the reservation— “all of their eyes” share the same viewpoint. It is also suggested that because “all of their eyes” look towards the cup, Victor, Adrian, and others are not completely sure of Julius’ future, and are still hopeful that he will succeed. Everyone, with all of their eyes, watches the path of Julius’ life, his success climbing at a positive rate until it plateaus, and eventually crashes due to alcoholism. Even though Adrian and Victor predicted “Julius is going to go bad” (49), once he actually got bad, they instilled hope in him until he was completely hopeless — this demonstrates the idea that because their only true hope is someone who can make it “out”, until that person has truly “come down whole to the ground”, they will not retract their faith and their hope in that

The author gave Mayor Cole an “evil” person's role, I could simply tell that when he had Lina “arrested” by his guards and thrown in jail just because she was trying to send her friend Clary a note that had information to exit City of Ember, and also how he steals all the food in the City, leaving very few food for others who are also trying to survive the awfulness.

Out of the many flaws that Julius Caesar had, one of the largest flaws that he had was his pride and his ambition. Having both of these attributes led to him being power hungry as well. For the most part Shakespeare’s play focuses on the idea of Julius being ‘power hungry’ for immortality. Despite his several flaws he is still able to be considered a hero for several different reasons. For one, he recognized his flaw, he was aware of what was thought of him because he saw it that way himself.

Julius Caesar is a pompous leader that was warned about his destruction and offered the crown but never accepted because of his stubborn ways. As a leader he returned from war and was celebrated but still did not accept the crown. He wants everybody to know that he is the greatest leader that Rome has ever seen but will only accept the crown with repetitive begging from his people. Julius Caesar never changes over the course of the play because his arrogant personality will not allow him to listen to the soothsayer or his wife of which both warn him about his death before it happens.

In these ways, while Julius has many connections as a half-Nigerian, half-German American immigrant, Julius doesn’t really own or have a real loyalty to any of these ties. Moreover, we see what a strain this is on Julius’s sense of identity. A dream he has perhaps best demonstrates this condition he finds himself in – Julius is running around Lagos with a sister (which he doesn’t have) and awakes to that familiarly bewildering condition of waking up in a hotel in a new city:

Dear diary, my name is Brutus who is a close friend and a servant of Caesar, whom Caesar trusts and believes to be honorable. In Julius Caesar, I am known as a tragic man because I face a major conflict that is a loyalty between my friend – Caesar and my country. Although I love Caesar as a friend, but I love Rome more. I really love Caesar, but I don’t want a dictator controls Rome with much

Now, Julius Caesar was a great leader, but his ambition, pride, and arrogance, all lead him to his death, but ultimately it was his pride that led him to taking his last breaths. Caesar's pride is showcased in Act II, when Calpurnia had told Caesar not to go to the Capitol, because of a dream that she had had, and omens that had scared her. Calphurnia asks Caesar to tell Decius

Robert G. Spinney, writer of “City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago,” and Richard Wright, writer of “Native Son,” cover the division in the city of Chicago. Spinney takes a look at the history of Chicago and how it has always been divided. This intern will evolve, creating a pattern as Chicago becomes a bigger more diverse city. While Wright shows the sociological basis of a person, and how it affects their identity. The identity in a person then effecting how that person might not “see” events that does not affect them directly. The two go to show, how the birth of a person, along with when a person is born, affects how they are treated, and how they treat others. Spinney and Wright explore division, the former through patterns of division and the later through iterations of blindness.

Written by William Shakespeare in1599, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar holds great literary merit. This play would help a student of literature understand the concept of tragic flaw, through Caesar’s character. Julius Caesar’s tragic flaw is his hubris. It manifests itself throughout the play in fearing no one, thinks he can defy the gods’ test, and believing nothing will hurt him. Julius Caesar’s

The man who had overthrown Rome, Sulla wanted Caesar dead. Thus so, Caesar fled to the mountains of Sabine country. Although Vestal Virgins tried to talk him free, Sulla would tell them: “Remember-this young man who you have been so desperate to save will one day destroy the aristocracy you have worked with me to preserve. For in this Caesar I see many a Marius. ”1

Purposeful || :bulletgreen: || Julius doesn 't like to do something for simply no reason, feeling that it is simply a waste of time and therefor one 's life. He finds people who spend time on hobbies to be some of the most annoying beings in the galaxy, and wishes that they would simply stop to focus on more important matters. That 's impossible though, no matter how much he earns.