Julius Caesar Essay

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A question has yet to be answered. Who is the noblest roman of them all? Is it really Brutus or is anyone noble? Who is Julius Caesar? A roman betrayed by another? On the other hand, is he a man crazed for power then shut down once he became out of control? Shakespeare, in his play Julius Caesar, demonstrates using Marcus Brutus that there are no real noble people in the world since everyone has their faults.

No one can ever be noble, or no one is noble. This all depends on what you think the word noble means. Here lies the noblest roman of all the conspirators. However, he was deceived and ended up doing the complete opposite. At first, Brutus' intensions were noble, but he acted them out as if they were wicked intensions, or those of evil men. Brutus wished to save Rome, but instead was the very cause of its destruction. If he did not join the conspiracy, they would not have conspired. He had a noble mind but not a noble soul. That was because he was deceived and was fighting a war within himself. The war was not physical though it was emotional, mental, and spiritual. “Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper, And look you lay it in the praetor’s chair Where Brutus may but find it And throw this in that window. Set this up with wax Upon old Brutus’ statue All this done, Repair to Pompey’s porch, where you will find us.” (I, iii, 145) Cassius told Cinna to hide those things in Brutus’s house so he will find them and be convinced that the people hated Caesar and join them but then leave and do not be caught! Then they went to Brutus and further convinced him after he found the papers. Therefore, it was Cassius Brutus’s brother that deceived him and caused him to be of evil essence. After being de...

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... one was ever really noble and everyone has some faults that are shown so openly close and hidden.

Shakespeare, in his play Julius Caesar, demonstrates using Marcus Brutus that there are no real noble people in the world since everyone has their faults. Caesar was ignorant, Antony was power crazy, Brutus was underhanded, the conspirators were deceived and Octavius was noble, but in what way? Octavius was the noblest roman of them all! He was a small baby gecko in a herd of giant adult elephants. He was hard to figure out but easy figure out. He truly was the noblest roman of the all! Octavius truly was true and was the smallest in a group of the biggest, or was he?

Works Cited

Julius Caesar. Dir. Uli Edel. Perf. Chris Noth. 2003.

Shakespeare, William, Harold Blomm and Pamela Loos. Julius Caesar. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.

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