Conflicting Perspective Julius Caesar And The Pianist

The composers of texts, Julius Caesar and The Pianist, use acts of representations to construct credible viewpoints that are conveyed to the audience in a certain event displayed in the texts. This is seen in the text, Julius Caesar, by the portrayal of events including the Oration and Calpurnia’s Dream. This notion is made evident to the Elizabethan audience in the Representation process and these devices are utilized to show the viewpoints based primarily on actions vs. intentions and the nature of manipulation. The composer of Pianist appeals to the appropriate audience by the use of several acts of representation customised to instil a viewpoint about the context and bring forth the perspectives on fate and free will.

Shakespeare deliberately develops reliable perspectives by the use of numerous acts of representation, diffusing his message across to the Elizabethan Audience. The text was intentionally produced as a play to relate to the Elizabethan Audience and the context, and therefore evoke further responses to the text. In the play, he specifically employs the Scenes of Oration and Calpurnia’s Dream based on the context, audience and the characterization, which exploit the nature of manipulation and actions vs. intentions. In the Oration scene, the application of rhetoric was common as seen from the crowd’s response from both Antony and Brutus speeches. However in Brutus speech, logos was primarily used to explore the key viewpoint of action vs. intention. This is seen by the statement by Brutus to the plebeians, ‘not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome More. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him, as he was v...

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.... This directly build up the imagery of fate into the audience mind. Polanski successfully uses visual and aural cinematic devices to convey his message across to the modern audience in the scene where Szpilman is discovered by the German Officer, Hozenfield, who asks him to play The Piano. The use of silence and high mid angle shot reveals elements of fate and the tension creates a question, whether Szpilman has free will or is his fate dominant. During the scene whilst Szpilman is playing piano he is covered in a veil of light from the window, which symbolizes the possibility of dominance of fate in such an event where his life is at stake.

Works Cited

Polanski, Roman, dir. The Pianist. 2002. Universal Pictures, 2003. DVD.

Shakespeare, William. “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.” Elements of Literature: Kylene Beers. Austin: Holt, 2009. 842-963. Print.