What Are The Similarities Between Caesar And Sydney Carton

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a story of envy, downfall, dishonesty, and true loyalty. The story begins with a celebration of Julius Caesar’s return home from a victorious battle. The people of Rome are excited for Caesar’s return, as they value and respect him as a potential leader, but there are also a handful of people that express their unhappiness with all of the attention surrounding Caesar. Caius Cassius is among those handful of individuals unhappy with Caesar’s popularity. Cassius is envious of Caesar and does not understand why he has gained so much power over the people of Rome, which brings him to the conclusion that he needs to bring about the fall of Caesar. Cassius expresses the issue to his brother-in-law

Sydney Carton, “one of Dickens’s most loved and best-remembered characters” (Stout 29), is not just another two-dimensional character; he seems to fly off the pages and into real life throughout all the trials and tribulations he experiences. He touches many hearts, and he even saves the life of Charles Darnay, a man who looks surprisingly similar to him. In Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton is a selfish man of habit, a cynic, a self-loathing drunk, and an incorrigible barrister until he meets Lucie Manette; throughout the novel Sydney is overcome by his noble love for Lucie and transforms from a cynic to a hero as he accomplishes one of the most selfless acts a man can carry out.

Mr. Sydney Carton proved that the amount of courage for him to make a difference meant to sacrifice his own life when taking the place of Charles Darnay in execution. The quote “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known”by Sydney Carton showed Sydney knew what he had to do and he knew that it was the only way to save the people that he loved(Dickens, 386). He knew that by sacrificing his life, he could provide for them and do more good by dying than he could ever do while he was alive. In the face of danger, Sydney rose to the challenge and faced it head on. As he walked to take the place of Charles Darnay, he also met another innocent life about to be executed.

    Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is a tragic play, where the renowned Julius Caesar is on the brink of achieving total control and power by becoming emperor of the Roman Empire. Ironically enough, when he thinks he is one step away from pulling it off, his "friends" (most from the senate) decide to overthrow him, with Caesar's most trusted friend, Marcus Brutus, acting as leader of the conspirators. Though the fall of Caesar from the most powerful man in the world to a man who's been betrayed and stabbed 30 times is a great downfall, he is not the tragic hero. Shakespeare's main focus is Marcus Brutus, a noble man who brings upon himself a great misfortune by his own actions,

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This wasted potential is emphasized when both Darnay and Carton fall in love with Lucie Manette. Darnay, as the typical charming hero, is chosen over desperate, brooding Carton. As a result, Carton finds himself channeling his love and his physical advantage of being Darnay’s double into keeping Lucie safe and happy by way of rescuing Darnay from the guillotine. Thus, Carton is able to become the proverbial “good guy,” a role he saw for himself in his counterpart, Darnay. He also managed to thwart the Defarges’ plot to murder all those connected to the aristocracy in any way. In this way, Dickens is able to use the comparisons and contrasts between the two men to show how love is capable of victory over violence and vengeance.

What Calpurnia and Caesar and Portia and Brutus have in common are that they a strong power couples. Both are women who were married to powerful men. Caesar who was the ruler of Rome, and Brutus is as a respected roman Senator. While both Portia and Calpurnia being women of Rome are just as strong and formidable as their male counterparts. Another thing that the couples have in common was that both women were able to persuade their husbands. Portia found that her husband Brutus was acting out of the ordinary and figures something is bothering him. Full of pride like most mean are Brutus did not tell his wife what he was truly feeling on the inside. She got very upset that the man she loved would not open up to her. She goes off to saying that she is his wife and not just some harlot. Portia was later able to crack Brutus to her in on the details of what was going on in the conspiracy. While

Julius Caesar, a play by William Shakespeare, outlines a civil war brought on by the assassination of Roman leader Caesar by a group of noblemen led by Brutus and Cassius who oppose Caesar and his possible rule due to their belief that he is a power hungry tyrant. Contrastly, Antony and Octavius are loyal to the fallen leader and strive to avenge his death. Through the play, Caesar is shown to be a megalomaniac due to his lack of trust, his endeavour to be seen as strong, and his pursuit to gain popular support. Caesar’s lack of trust in others parallels him to absolute monarchs and dictators who attempt to be in control and remain in control by eliminating possible threats and placing trust in a small group. After Caesar rejects the crown

Sydney Carton is the most memorable character in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, a story of redemption, resurrection, self-sacrifice change and love, all of these words have to do with the extreme transformation of. Sydney Carton had such great love for Lucie Mannette that evolves from a depressed loaner that can only attempt to substitute happiness with alcoholic indulgence to a loyal caring friend who makes the ultimate sacrifice for the ones he loves.

Caesar's ambition to become recognizes that killing Caesar may becoming emperor. In Act 2, Scene 1, Brutus states “If we crown Caesar I have to admit we’d be giving him the power to do damage.” He goes on to say “And therefore we should liken him to a serpent’s egg once it has hatched, it becomes dangerous, like all serpents. Thus we must kill Caesar while he’s still in the shell.” Shakespeare also presents a character’s inner turmoil directly, through devices like a soliloquy.

In Charles Dicken's book, A Tale of Two Cities, there are numerous diverse characters. Sydney Carton is one of them. Sydney at the beginning of the story is an orphaned boy who does all other papers in school just like how he does Stryver's legal work when he is older. Carton has a profoundly depressed life and feels that he is wasting his life, but in the end, Carton gives his life up for others. I believe that Sydney Carton is the most dynamic character in A Tale of Two Cities because of how he changes from a drunken, lazy, attorney to a loving man looking for the greater reward in life. Carton's life changes from trying to find anything that will engulf the joy out of life, to a loving, compassionate, man that is seeking for the best for

Despite Carton’s disliking for Darnay decides to once again save Darnay’s life just before he is to be beheaded by the revolutionaries and their beloved guillotine. He creates an elaborate plan that includes blackmail with a double-crossing spy, Barsad, the changing of clothes with Darnay, and using a special vapor to knock Darnay out and send him back to England with his family. Carton, because of his uncanny resemblance to Darnay gets away with taking his identity. He stays unphased by the situations that follow and just before he is beheaded he envisions a better future. This includes “[Lucie] with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name… I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up the path of life” (292-293). Carton was not nervous when staring death in the face, proving his braveness.

A very popular work of art by Vincent Van Gogh would be The Starry Night. Vincent Van Gogh depicted a night in the town as a symbolic image of emotion with the exploding stars, a night where one can dream, and the comfort of others as homes are brightly lit. Through this painting, Vincent van Gogh expresses personal insight and feelings through it. Van Gogh had a mental illness and it said that between seizures, he would do these paintings because it allowed him to have great clarity. Van Gogh painted The Starry Night by memory and his work symbolize his great illness and a moment of sanity since he was at Saint Remy during the time he painted this portraying what he saw from the window of his bedroom.

Brutus, Caesar’s best friend, is conned into believing that Caesar is not the rightful ruler for Rome and helps in the murder. Cassius is Caesar’s archenemy and ultimately the reason many Romans turned against Caesar. Calphurina, Caesar’s wife, tries to save his life but, again, Caesar believes himself impervious to danger. Contrary to some opinions, I believe Julius Caesar is the tragic hero of Julius Caesar not Brutus. Caesar died because of his ego and arrogance as well as his back stabbing “friends”.

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