summary of lion and jewel

This attempt quickly failed when she said that his hubris just took over. “I knew that Caesar should have stayed away from the Senate house yesterday, but I guess his pride just took over his mind, it was just all too much,” Calpurnia sobbed. “This has turned out to be the most tragic moment in my life and I hope those conspirators kneel to the gods, for they have upset the heavens with the killing of the mightiest leader Rome has ever seen.”

Calpurnia’s second argument begins with a metaphor, “[w]hen beggars die, there are no comets seen” With this device, she emphasizes the intensity of the events happening, she compares the importance of royalty to the powerless, to play to Caesar’s ego. Her next device is hyperbole as she argues against her husband. She claims that the “heavens themselves blaze forth the deaths of princes” to exaggerate how much the people and their gods care about Caesar and to compare her husband to a prince. She then equips herself with influential word choice to flatter Caesar and to place herself as less than him, so he feels that he still holds the power in their relationship. She addresses Caesar as “my lord” while begging him to stay home. Her following device is personification. She accuses his “wisdom [of being] consumed in confidence” to emphasize his clouded judgment to show the realism of what Calpurnia is saying. She next uses an understatement to ask him to “not go forth today.” She is desperate for him to stay, but the understatement highlights the urgency by making it seem negligible. She wants Caesar to “call it [her] fear”, as to why he is staying at home. This selection of detail is her using logos, a logical escape that avoids him seeming weak. With juxtaposition and the connotation of the word choice in each phrase, Calpurnia makes their own home appear safer than the Senate House Caesar wants to go to, telling him to blame her fear for keeping him “in the house and not [his] own. [They’ll] send Mark Antony to the Senate House.” Ending her argument with rich word choice, she tries to implement pathos to convince him that the omens are dangerous because of her own fear. She wants to “prevail” in trying to convince Caesar to

Caesar’s ambition not only brought Caesar multitudes of accomplishments and eventually led him to becoming dictator of Rome, but also brought him many enemies jealous of his power, along with the inability to be satisfied with himself and his accomplishments (as he was a perfectionist). If Caesar were to not be a perfectionist and as ambitious as he was, he wouldn’t of accomplished any of

Cassius is a talented general, and does not like the fact that Caesar has become `god-like' in the Roman people's minds (see above quote Act I, Scene ii). Cassius can be seen as a

In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the people of Rome have opinions that are very easily swayed. However, there is one man who does this best in comparison to the rest. This man is Marc Antony. He sways the crowd in favor of his ideas through his use of the will, his speaking techniques of ethos and logos, and by speaking directly to the hearts of the people of Rome.

Caesar possessed too much power. They said he was becoming a threat to the Roman Republic,

He also believes this will bring him power. His downfall is shown in this quote because it shows what he’s going to do to no longer feel this way. It is also shown because the plot is based on his jealousy of Caesar.

Was worried about Caesar ruining Rome from dictatorship. Was concerned for Rome and its people.

Caesar respected Antony, and his way of life. He defended him when he said, "See! Antony, that revels (makes merry) long a-nights, is notwithstanding (however) up. Good morrow, Antony" (2.4.116-117).

All his ideals and principles affected his actions such as joining the conspiracy which then led to his downfall. Being an idealist, he could not see the practical condition and assumed that others have the same ideals as him. This can seen when he assumed that the plan for conspiracy will work out perfectly whereby it would not seem ‘too bloody’ since they did not kill Mark Antony and that they would be seen as noble men since they did it “for the sake and benefit of Roman

He doesn’t think things through enough to suspect a thing. He gets cocky and has his ego so insanely boosted that the conspirators took hold of his mind. Even Brutus’s knowledge is flawed. When speaking at Caesar’s funeral, he feeds the public a ridiculous explanation for the assassination of his friend. “There is tears, for his love; joy, for his fortune; honor, for his valor; and death for his ambition” (948). Caesar was brutally murdered for his ambition. Nowadays, people wish they could be ambitious, yet Caesar was murdered for it? Even the mindless Roman citizens, after Antony’s speech, came to realize that ambition was hardly something to die for.

He has so much pride that he is unable to listen to others because he thinks he knows everything. When people tell him something, he always fights back even though they may be right. He is a very rude person and likes to tell others what to do. When Tiresias tell Creon that he is treating the city bad, he starts to get into a fight with Tiresias and Creon starts to talk bad about Tiresias, “Old man, you pot away at me like all the rest as if I were a bull’s-eye, And now you aim your seer craft at me. Well, I’m sick of being bought and sold by all your soothsaying tribe. Bargain away! All the silver of Sardis, all the gold of India is not enough to buy this man a grave; Not even if Zeus’s eagles come, and fly away with carrion morsels to their

Along with the actuality and the attempts of manipulation in this play reside many forced manipulations. In the same scene in which Calpurnia convinces her husband to not go to the Capitol, a group of conspirators meet at Caesar's house to make sure he does not decide to stay at home, simply so that the planned assassination can, in fact, take place. Brutus, one of the conspirators, tells Caesar that his wife is superstitious, and that he should not be listening to her.

With Caesar’s actions in Calpurnia’s presence we see the gentler, slightly less arrogant side to his personality. Also in having Portia’s presence, we see the more compassionate side of Brutus, her husband. We are shown Caesar’s gentler, less arrogant behavior when Calpurnia pleaded with Caesar that he not leave home that day, a request made due to her suspicions sparked by the soothsayer’s warning to beware the Ides of March. Caesar dismisses her feeling confident that the Soothsayer’s words were unimportant. However she continues in her attempts to convince him. “Mark Antony shall say I am not well,/ And for thy humor I will stay at home” (cite). Then, although he sees staying home on this day as a sign of cowardice, Caesar chooses to stay home. Although shortly after, Caesar reverts to his original plan, the fact remains true that for at least a moment, Caesar had made the less arrogant choice. Making this choice showed Caesar is capable of changing his arrogant way of thinking under certain circumstances.In having Portia, Brutus’s wife, we see a new characteristic in Brutus as well.After Portia’s death Brutus says to Cassius, “No man bears

Another soldier calls him “the god of Jupiter” which elevates Antony’s status to that of a great leader, because Jupiter was the leader amongst all the other gods. Philo compares him to Mars, the god of war, which shows elevates his stature to be one of equal rank with a god. Caesar recalls Antony’s excellent soldiership and “virtus” qualities. “Virtus” was the Roman ideal of male force and energy: military prowess coupled with devotion to one’s honour and fame. Antony had to “drink/the stale of horses” and eat “strange flesh” and “the bark of trees” in order to stay alive and he was “borne so like a soldier that thy cheek…lanked not.” These striking images paint an unfathomable scene of heroic endurance which the audience respects and admires.