Ben--English pd. 6

Disposition: Brutus versus Caesar

I decided to do some research on Julius Caesar in order to understand where it comes from, and I wanted a broader perspective on Caesar:
We all know that the book is called The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. It was written in order to represent a play an almost drama of historical events. Theres was no narrator in this story, and the writing was used in present tense.
The basic moral that I got out of this story was that power controls how people think of you. The moral that I found after researching was that there is a relationship between rhetoric and power. The tone varied and mainly considered a deep and eloquent tone. I could definitely predict some things such as when all of those omens had appeared before Calpurnia's eyes. In any play, omens always represent bad things to come, meaning whatever bad thing MAY happen WILL happen.
The most surprising thing I found about this research was this:
The women in the play, Portia and Calpurnia, symbolize the neglected private lives of their respective husbands, Brutus and Caesar. The men dismiss their wives as hindrances to their public duty, ignoring their responsibilities to their own mortal bodies and their private obligations as friends, husbands, and feeling men.
Like The Odyssey, this too had somewhat prejudice towards women! I never caught that, even though I had alittle inclination towards the fact that there was some discrimination.
Without a doubt the climax was when Brutus had killed Caesar. It was written in 1959 in London, and many find this to be a classic piece of literature.

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