Male-Ruled Play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar is a play that is balanced between the domains of history and disaster. The play is male-ruled with just two ladies parts, Calphurnia, Caesar's wife, and Portia, Brutus' wife. The absence of female presence is recognized in examination to other Shakespeare works where female parts are ideal such as Romeo and Juliet. Women in the play of Julius Caesar are disregarded and any worries that they have for the men are rarely put into consideration. Characters who show any indications of a weak spot in this man's reality of legislative issues and warfare are recognized as feeble minded. Shakespeare made men in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar flawed to show what happens when women are undervalued in a male dominated society. It is critical to investigate how the men view women to comprehend the lack of female roles in the play. As Cassius states, “But, woe the while, our fathers’ minds are dead, and we are governed with our mothers’ spirits, our yoke and sufferance show us womanish” (1.3.83). The men themselves would prefer not to seem feeble and female like on the grounds that then they will be overwhelmed. There is likewise the fear of being overruled by feelings and not having the ability to think soundly due to these feelings. Cassius and other men such as Caesar and Brutus do not want to appear to have emotions because they feel as if it is a woman like behavior. Cassius also touches upon how men view women in the male dominated society in an attempt to damage Caesars authority as a head in Rome with his story about how Caesar once fell ill. Cassius said, “As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me a man of such a feeble temper should, so get the start of the majestic world and bear the palm alone” (1.2.134-138). As st...

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...how the outcome of ambitious men due to the lack of a solid female part in a male ruled world. Calphurnia exhibits value in her when she requests that Caesar lie to the Senate and stay home with her to guarantee his wellbeing. All of her efforts failed because of stronger male vicinity in her life. This lack of awareness on Caesar's part prompts his death. Portia wants an equal relationship with her spouse, keeping in mind she can deal with the physical torment and requests of a man; she can't deal with the enthusiastic requests of being a man. Although she might have self inflected a wound onto her physical being, she cannot change within. Both ladies are dismissed and disregarded. They are useless ladies. No matter what movements they may have performed or words they may have spoken, they didn't have the ability to change the story or destiny of their spouses.