Caesar

Julius Caesar was in a precarious situation. It could be interpreted

that he deserved the fate that pursued him for ambition or some other reason, or

that it was a cold murder for which he did not deserve. Both Shakespeare and

Plutarch wrote about Julius Caesar. Each tells the story a little differently.

Plutarchs version is more sympathetic to Caear's situation.

Shakespeare shows him to be an insensitive and conceited person thinking

only of himself. This is shown by his reaction to Calpurnia'

. . .

Lastly, after Caesar's death the Romans were enraged to revenge him at

the sight of his body and out of their love for him, in Plutarch's writing. This again showing Plutarch's

writing to be more sympathetic to Caesar than Shakespear's. directing that

it" (the assassination) "should take place just here. In

Shakespeare's the Roman were enraged but quelled by Brutus' speech and enraged

again by Antony's. After her

description of her dream he says, "Caesar shall forth. This showing the Roman to be mindless, moved only by a good

speech and not by their feelings for Caesar. The things that

threatened me Ne'er looked but on my back; when they shall see the face of

Caesar, they are vanished. "

Moreover, Plutarch's writings show the long string of coincidences

almost as Fate were deeming it necessary for him to die, and that he had no

control over it. the scene of the final struggle and of the assassination

made it perfectly clear that some heavenly power was involved.

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