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On a contextual basis, the First Player’s speech from the Aeneid comes with Hamlet’s newly-hatched plan to showcase the guilt of

Both Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus are great at using people’s emotions to grab their attention. In Brutus’s speech, he used the feeling of slavery: “Would you rather have Caesar alive and all die slaves, than Caesar dead to all live free men?” Nobody wants to be a slave and would feel angry if they were. Brutus is using this feeling to make it sound like Caesar would have made them all into slaves but because he is dead, they are all free. If one thinks about it some more, the people were like slaves under Caesar’s power. They weren’t free to do as they liked due to the fact that if it upset Caesar, you’d be executed. After Caesar was dead, the people were free to do as they pleased. Brutus used the emotion of anger to show that he killed Caesar so the people could be free of his controlling power.

The play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare sets the stage for an honorable man named Marcus Brutus. His honor is characterized by several traits and actions present throughout the play. Brutus’ love to Rome proves honor by the things he sacrifices for the better of his people and country. His death resulting from guilt and the feeling of having to be with Caesar shows his modesty. In fact, his people, friends, and even enemies also perceive

William Shakespeare, famed English poet and author of the widely recognized play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Within his work, Shakespeare reveals the fascinating internal-workings of human nature, as he unfolds the actual events that took place in Roman history. As factual as Shakespeare might seem, it would not be wrong to suggest that his choice of a title is fairly misleading. The reader is led to believe that the tragic hero is Julius Caesar, not to say that being stabbed by one’s own friend is not devastating enough, but the character that suffers the real catastrophe is Marcus Brutus. Brutus, is the dagger-wielding, back-stabber of a friend, but he is honorable, and he only

“From the death of his father, the overhasty marriage of his mother, to the concern about the rivalry between children’s performing company and the adult actors, from the virtue of woman to the art of performance, from Claudius revelry to the grave digging of the two clowns.” (2009) In short, Hamlet’s mind never stops working. His dialogues are majorly infested with unraveled philosophies and understandings of the essence of human life: “the whips and scorns of time / Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely / The pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay / The insolence of office, and the spurns / That patient merit of th’unworthy takes.” (Hoy 1992) However abundant, these reasoning do not dissolve into a solution, but rather, they project shadows upon Hamlet’s determination to avenge by glazing his lenses with a pessimistic perception of life. As a result, Hamlet questions the necessity of killing Claudius and fails to settle the revenge accordingly to his father’s will.

In Hamlet’s first soliloquy he reveals the inner torment he is facing, due to the aftermath of his father's death. Hamlet displays disjointed outbursts of grief, sorrow, and contempt. These outbursts reveal what he is really struggling with: figuring out what it means to be an ideal human. Striking uses of juxtaposition and imagery are displayed, indicating the distraught Hamlet’s views of the contemptibility of human existence. Hamlet’s contempt, and anger is illuminated by descriptive comparisons and gloomy imagery.

He uses words such as ‘click’, ‘crunch’ and ‘brash’ to exaggerate. The structure in the stanzas and lines is short. This is effective for the reader as the poet gets straight to the point and it adds to why his anger is building up. It allows the reader to see that there are reasons for his anger. Afrika uses harsh words at the start of the poem to indicate that he is already feeling annoyed about the way his home has turned into a wasteland and used for the white’s to build extravagant things. As the poem progresses the poet starts to get more and more riled up by the situation. Furthermore, the structure resembles how the poets outrage increases. Afrika structures this very suitably as he exhibits his anger through his past memories and emotions. The fact that the poet uses harsh and sharp words relates to how even when he comes back to his hometown and apartheid has ended, there is still a lot of things that have not changed. When the reader reads the poem, by having those harsh words in there, it makes the poem a lot less smooth therefore it creates a bitter and uncomfortable atmosphere for the reader. Furthermore, the use of onomatopoeia adds to the way this poem is expressed- protest poem. Aside from using onomatopoeia, the poet uses other literary devices such as the comparison of imagery between the whites and blacks and provides a visual image for the

They plan the assassination and they all agree with Brutus’s idealisms. Due to Brutus and his fellow conspirators, Brutus starts to lose his touch to reality. Little by little Brutus gets driven to a point of disbelief, it is at this point that Brutus is completely lost to reality , he can now no longer see what is real and what he dreamt

“Ignorance is bliss” is a commonly heard saying; what one does not know, cannot hurt him. For instance, a student receiving a bad grade will not feel unpleasant, should he not know about his grade. It is when the student must acknowledge his grade, would he be unhappy. Similarly, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar often tampers with the theme of ignorance and purity, as it follows the story of a military general, Julius Caesar, whose friends and fellow consuls brutally betray him. However, amidst the tragedy of his play, Shakespeare provides a glimpse of purity through the character of Lucilius, whose devotion to Caesar’s friend, Brutus, is “innocent;” as a soldier, the sight of war does not “corrupt” Lucilius, but teaches him the true nature of humanity: a subject as pure as it gets.

The Shakespearean play featuring a man being stabbed 23 times to death, “Julius Caesar,” is quite unique in many perspectives, because unlike most plays, this play has a plot that deals with controversial events, leaving the bulk of the readers in a state of ambiguity and division. The scene where Julius Caesar was stabbed is ambiguous, because it is a good thing for the people, but the way he was murdered is much too brutal. Whether or not Brutus should have joined the conspiracy to kill Caesar divides the audience, since it is unclear if it was beneficial or detrimental to the people of Rome. The audience is also divided on their perception of Caesar, due to his actions that could be interpreted as both arrogance or confidence. These three points demonstrate that the play’s flexible plot line opens itself up for the audiences’ own interpretation.

However, he truly thought that what he was doing was the right decision, and eventually he did feel guilt about what he had done. Brutus sees a ghost of Caesar the night before the battle that was caused because of the disagreement between Caesar’s death, and he says, “Why, I will see you at Philippi, then” (4.3.330). This is an example of a way that Brutus had begun to accept his feelings and even his own thoughts about the whole conspiracy and how it might have been the wrong thing to do. The audience can see that after they realize the fact that not every character only did things out of spite; some of them made the decisions because that’s what they thought would be the best choice. This allows sympathy for Brutus’s character. It is from this concept of revealing the thoughts and feelings of characters who do not agree on the same things that assists those who watch or read the play to understand more of what it is really about. Brutus comes to terms with how he feels his time is near, and that he must live with the consequences that are to come after his actions: “The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me...I know my hour is come” (5.5.20-23). It is important that the audience can see his perspective and what goes on with Brutus personally, since it gives them a better idea as to how tragic this play is. The whole concept of knowing more of his perspective, as

Antony vs. Brutus The purpose of Act III Scene II was the speeches that Brutus and Antony gave and the effect that they had on the public. These speeches are crucial to the outcome of the play, Julius Caesar, because this is where the role of the public becomes vital. Brutus and Antony has to convince the crowd that they were right in assassinating Caesar. Antony has a harder time of convincing the crowd but he still does exceptionally well considering.

Throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet demonstrates his wit and coolness under pressure, whether this be in high stress or comical situations. Very rarely does he ever allow the audience -- or other characters -- to see his genuine turmoil. For these reasons, the “Rogue and Peasant Slave” soliloquy at the end of Act 2 Scene 2 really stands out and updates the audience on Hamlet’s suffering. However, this could not be accomplished without Shakespeare’s masterful writing techniques of shifting tone through diction and subject. Through such, the audience can truly take into full consideration Hamlet’s inner suffering, his self hatred, and how he plans to resolve his issues through “vengeance!” (2.2.610).

William Shakespeare's epic and tragic telling of the story of Julius Caesar, provides an interesting and helpful way of examining history in a dramatic context. The concept of violence is evident throughout the entire play. The interpretative quality of violence, and the relative effectiveness of its usage, provides a useful lens for understanding this work. For this essay, I intend to examine the three characters of Brutus, Cassius and Marc Anthony using this particular focus. I will demonstrate how each of these characters and their relationships to violence appears as basically relative and open to interpretation. This quality of violence helps demoralize its use while telling a tale of historic significance and simultaneously revealing useful examples of how this forceful technique and its effects are subjective in nature.

Brutus finds himself swarmed with thoughts as he shows his private identity for the first time. Seeming to be at war with himself he says, “It must be by death, and, for my part, / I know no personal cause to spurn at him, / But for the general. He would be crown’d: / How that might change his nature, there’s the question” (2.1.10-13). Brutus convinces himself that the assassination of Caesar will be for the good of Rome, not for his personal advancement. Shakespeare shows the reader this side of Brutus that has not been seen before. In public, Brutus appears to be confident and loyal to Caesar, but deep on the inside he is conflicted on what choice to make and is worried about the actions he may be taking. Due to these troubling thoughts, Brutus becomes stressed and starts to stray away from his true self. “And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg / Which hatch’d would as his kind grow mischievous, / And kill him in the shell” (2.1.32-34). Brutus is conveying his true thoughts about Caesar. He wants to kill Caesar before he becomes king and it is too late. However, because Brutus appears to be loyal to Caesar, he will have to keep his plans secret from everyone or else it will harm his public status. It is just the beginning of Brutus unveiling his true, inner self and how contradictory it is to his public persona.