Spurn

Throughout the Shakespearean play, Julius Caesar, the character Marcus Brutus deals with the struggles of attempting to make Rome as best as it can be. Conspiring with some fellow Romans, the noble Brutus helps assassinate the upcoming emperor Julius Caesar. This begins a war against those who advocate the rise of Caesar, including Caesar’s closest cohort, Mark Antony. At the place of Brutus’ death, Antony stands over his body and gives a short speech commemorating Brutus’ honor. In his brief eulogy

Nature’s Revenge of the Real Monster “He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense, will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness.”(161) Ambition and the thirst for knowledge leads Victor to fabricate the Creature. By doing so, he defies nature, fate, and destiny. Victor goes against the natural realm and

“If You Were Coming in the Fall”, is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson wrote a a lot about love. Dickinson fell in love with an unknown person when she was in her early twenties. Unfortunately, Edward Dickinson did not approve of Emily's unknown lover. Later on in Dickinson's life, she began to fall in love with a man named Otis Lord. Dickinson and Lord wrote each other constantly. Dickinson refused Lord's marriage proposal, but they continued to write to each other. Emily Dickinson's

friends, and Brutus betrayed Caesar by killing him over a material thing which was the crown. Brutus also told everyone that Caesar basically wasn’t fit enough to be their king. “ It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, but for the general. He would be crowned, how that might change his nature, there’s the question. Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins. Remorse from power; and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections swayed

A comparative analysis of the interrelationships involving the ideals of integrity and power presents the deep exploration of the like-minded, inter-textual perspectives between Niccolo Machiavelli’s renaissance proposition, ‘The Prince’ (1513) and William Shakespeare’s, Elizabethan tragedy, ‘Julius Caesar’ (1599). Both texts expose the intricate relationship between attitudes and ambitions to the attainment and retention of power. Machiavelli’s political discourse, influenced by the enduring, authoritarian

Imagine the pressure of being expected to follow your culture’s traditions even if you want to rebel and create your own identity. Carrying on traditions can be difficult for many young people who are searching for their identities as they grow up. Two texts, “Life in the age of the mimis” by Domingo Martinez and “El Olvido” by Judith Ortiz, tell about the struggles of losing one’s culture. One shows the reader that forgetting your own roots simply because of being ashamed or embarrassed can

There has long been debate between the leaders of scientific and religious organizations regarding which is more appropriate, and if they can ever be unified. The eight circuit brain is one of the potential links to doing so. The term ‘eight-circuit brain’ was first coined by the controversial Timothy Leary. Similar to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the eight-circuit brain theory suggests that there are eight sets of consciousness that are enabled in order to meet certain needs. These are in order

exploding above the Eiffel Tower, I knew my opinions on independence day (both in America and France were permanently changed. My time at La Fête Nationale also taught me more about my own country’s history and how our entanglements with France helped spurn their own revolution after we succeeded with ours. Two years after I went to France, I went to Mount Vernon and saw the key of Bastille, which the Marquis de Lafayette gave George Washington. Had I not learned about the history behind this key during

In Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” Hester Prynne can be seen as the only real character as she is the only character that does not conform to the ways of the puritan society. Her actions and choices throughout the novel are true to her beliefs and not to those enforced by the puritan society, choices such as committing adultery and not revealing who the father of her child is, lead her down a road of ignominy, isolation and hardship, yet these choices do not leave her bitter and unforgiving but

William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar portrays many difficult dilemmas characters similar to Brutus had to face. Ultimately, Brutus’s final decision led to the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. In spite of this, I argue that despite the noble intentions of what is best for Rome, Brutus should not have joined the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar. Tragically, I believe Caesar’s death resulted in the end of the Roman Republic. Through an examination of Brutus’s internal conflict