Julius Caesar

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   Julius Caesar, Roman ruler and the subject of Shakespeares tragedy is almost an engima. Some years ago, I viewed a tv programme on Discovery that put him as a diplomat who manipulated his own death. Ceasar probably knew that he would be put down and the only way to immortality was to die and that too in the hands of his detractors, one of who was Brutus.

   That he loved his wife is true. Initially, he responded to her demands to stay at home on the day of the Senate. But, he later on changed his  decision when members of the senate came to take him there. He would not like to be represented as a coward.

   This also means that he was a victim of social hierarchy that puts woman as inferior to man. but, he was more a dictator who wanted to keep all powers to himself. That's what Brutus and Cassius speak about him in the text. 'Ceasar is a colossus', says Cassius. Brutus, representative of honesty and dignity in the play is also moved by the same imagery when plotting against the dictator, who also was his friend.

    

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   Posted by saurav on Monday May 12, 2008 at 11:44 PM
   
   

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