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How and why does Shakespeare use Rome as a theatrical foil to bring out the nature of his characters in terms of their communal relationship with the state? I chose to write about Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Coreolanus because these plays encompass the whole life of the Roman Empire. I wish to investigate with Shakespeare the complex situations that individuals find themselves in when they try to reconcile their own autonomous ideals with the communal ideals Rome, through all of its stages of transition. Corealanus is based in the early 5th century B.C.E., before Rome conquered all of Italy, before the birth of Socrates, and before the publication of the Twelve Tables. Julius Caesar is based around the end of the republic in 44 B.C.E., and Titus Andronicus is guessed to be based in the fourth century C.E., near the end of Rome's control of the Mediterranean region. Since the very foundation of civilization we see the emergence of a collective ideology of the state based very much in spiritual observance of communal rituals. Romans believed that they as individuals were utterly dependent on the gods. The observance of religious ritual was somewhat under contractual terms with the gods. If a man failed to str
Ius divinium, Latin for natural law, is the concept on which all western law has been based to this date. Conformity + +II. " These are people willing to take risks and break the rules in order to attain the goals and uphold the ideals of that society. The very rise of civilization, and the state, occurred at the same time in history as many other anthropological phenomena. Shakespeare notices that sometimes our culture can overpower what our own autonomous decisions might be. This would be the place for most of the senate and nobility in the plays. The agricultural revolution allowed us to enter civilization which went hand in hand with mass organized religion, the ability of man to hold power over one another, a division of labor, the end of egalitarianism, and the emergence of a hierarchical structuring of society. For Brutus, honor is represented in the purest sense. They are aware of what the cultural goals of an individual in Rome are and have the means of attaining the goals for themselves without much struggle. The best example of this would be Menenius in Coreolanus. He outlines five types of adaptation in the table below where (+) equals "Acceptance," (-) equals rejection, and ( + ) equals rejection of prevailing values and substitution of new values.
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