Parutus And The Swaggering Soldier

I stand before you all today to speak on my assassination, without resentment or bitterness. Although what has occurred is so tragic, the reasoning behind these bold actions are valid. I, like many of you, am so appalled by what has happened, and it deeply saddens me to know the men that I once called my dearest friends have deceived me. They rushed me to the Capitol to be crowned, just to watch my wounds pour out blood. I feel betrayed. I feel hurt. I feel powerless.

Shakespeare’s complex play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar contains several tragic heroes; a tragic hero holds high political or social esteem yet possesses an obvious character flaw. This discernible hubris undoubtedly causes the character’s demise or a severe forfeiture, which forces the character to undergo an unfeigned moment of enlightenment and shear reconciliation. Brutus, one of these tragic heroes, is a devout friend of the great Julius Caesar, that is, until he makes many execrable decisions he will soon regret; he becomes involved in a plot to kill the omniscient ruler of Rome during 44 B.C. After committing the crime, Mark Antony, an avid, passionate follower of Caesar, is left alive under Brutus’s orders to take his revenge on

A tragic hero in Shakespearean literature is understood as a noble and heroic character who makes a series of bad decisions based on his bad judgment that leads to his downfall and eventually death. In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, the tragic hero is Marcus Brutus, a powerful Roman senator who joins a conspiracy to assassinate the Roman ruler, Julius Caesar. Marcus Brutus is a tragic hero because of his noble reputation, his moral personality, the cathartic experience that the audience feels from his life and his tragic flaw: idealism.

The play starts with an important piece of cultural information in the form of the quote “I thought it wrong, my children, to hear the truth from others, messengers. Here I am myself—you all know me, the world knows my fame: I am Oedipus” (1, Fagels). This quote shows how the story of Oedipus did not originate with Shophicles but is deeply enrooted in ancient Greek culture by oral repetition of the classic myth. The most apparent character carried themes are those carried by the protagonist Oedipus. Throughout the play Oedipus shows that one must maintain ignorance to also be happy and that one’s fate will also prevail. Both these themes are deeply rooted into Greek culture.

By definition, noble is having moral character, courage, generosity, honor and bravery to do what is right. It is finding the truth and reason in everything that happens around you. Many of the characters in Julius Caesar have a selfish goal to gain more power and wealth. For instance, Julius Caesar was a great general, but he only cared about ruling Rome. Cassius was a smart and wise man, but he wanted Caesar’s death out of envy and jealousy. Many of the senators, who were involved in Caesar`s assassination, hated watching him take over Rome, and many Romans thought of him as their rival. Except for one noble senator named Brutus, who was different from the other senators and fought only for Rome

A very prolific comedy writer Plautus wrote 20 of the well-known 26 early comedies. He modeled his comedies on Greek plays known as New Comedy, but they treated the plots and wording of the originals freely. Plautus included songs in his plays and added humor with puns and comedic actions by the actors.

Plautus’ play, The Brothers Menaechmus, heavily influenced Shakespeare’s play Comedy of Errors. First, The Brothers of Menaechmus begins with a humorous prologue performed by an unknown character who directly addresses the audience. Plautus starts the prologue with the unknown character talking in iambic pentameter which gives the audience necessary

To climb the social ladder a person must be, in one way or another, more powerful than whom they are passing in life. As this is true for an individual, it is also true for an assemblage of individuals. Whether it is a village, city, or country, to survive you must be stronger than your challengers to defeat them. On the largest scale you would need an army to accomplish this feat. For centuries the Roman Empire was the most powerful civilization in the world and this was due to the invincibility of its military forces and prowess of its soldiers.

A hero is someone with noble qualities that people tend to emulate. There are many characters in the play Julius Caesar that have specific traits worth emulating, but one character seems to have it all. This character is none other than the noble Brutus. Throughout the play, Brutus shows a sense of emotion and meaning, pathos, which is constant throughout every scene. Brutus’ character starts as one of a quiet, modest, and easily persuadable person, But, *Pause here for a second*, We see later that Brutus is actually someone who’s use of figurative language, Manipulation and Logic, Ethos and Logos, is far beyond what it seems to be.

Plautus’s comedies seem to be a double edged sword. One edge makes an audience laugh while the other is embedded with hidden messages. A Roman audience watching The Brothers Menaechmus might even laugh at a cleverly concealed insult. Plautus, a Roman playwright, managed to create this double tasking play by using a setting which down played the stereotypical Greek setting of Athens, and opted instead for something a little less Greek. The setting also played a part in creating a link between brother and culture. The main setting allowed Menaechmus I to symbolize the Greek persona while the sub setting correlated Menaechmus II with the Romans. In the end, Plautus’s play is highly ironic since the surface of the play could mean one

Julius Caesar was a man who lived in and during the ancient Roman empire and was on his way to being king until his assassination at the capitol in 44 B.C by conspirators and his dear friend Brutus. All of the conspirators had their own reasons for killing Caesar but Brutus was different because he was a noble and honorable man who loved both Caesar and Rome but he fell to the deceit of Cassius and was persuaded to kill Caesar for what he thought and was told to be the greater good of Rome. which highlights Brutus as the tragic hero of this story by Shakespeare due to his positive attributes,his role in the story and society, but also the flaws within him that Cassius exploited, persuading him killing Caesar and how all of those factors led to his unfortunate fall and death.

In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is the tragic hero. Some scholars argue over whether Caesar or Brutus is the true tragic hero. Based on facts such as, Brutus is naive, cowardly, and sneaky. Cassius made Brutus do his dirty work for him, and he didn’t realize it. Brutus’ weakness is his love for Rome, Cassius picked on this weakness, talking Brutus into killing Caesar. As defined by Aristotle, a tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgement error that leads to his/her downfall, this definition defines Brutus.

In the play The Braggart Soldier, by Plautus, comedic techniques are seen throughout the acts. After the fall of Athens, the time when this play was written, making fun of human flaws such as vanity was used as a form of comedy. This is shown most through the character of Pyrgopolynices, who constantly recounts his accomplishments in battle in both war and love. Some comedic techniques the audience sees in the play also used in modern day television include comedic hyperboles and violence. These techniques are similar to today’s reality television shows, which tend to be modern day comedies.

When does a good thing become too much, and how? In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus was a Roman nobleman and politician turned against Julius Caesar, the incumbent dictator of Rome. Coerced into joining a plot to kill Caesar by letters appearing to be from dissatisfied commoners, he soon took charge of the conspiracy. He advocated that the group do only what was necessary to save Rome from Caesar and no more. Brutus rejected a proposal to kill Caesar’s right hand man Marc Antony in fear of pursuing too bloody a course. He truly believed in Caesar’s corruption and in his conspirators’ virtue. In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is the tragic character because his enduring trust makes him blind to the true, and often threatening, nature of those around him.

Aristophanes was a master writer and observer, his work was comprised based upon current events and criticizing politicians. Aristophanes made use of a good chorus in most of his work, most of humour was vulgar or sexual and he used slapstick and satire to point out problems in the current society.