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hassri
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High School - 11th Grade

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, was Caesar really ambitious or were the conspirators just exaggerating Caesar's ambition?

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Posted by hassri on Monday October 5, 2009 at 7:04 AM and tagged with ambition, ambitious, julius caesar.

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  1. terridudley
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    High School - 12th Grade

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    In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Cassius uses Caesar's suspected ambitions as a motive to stir and rouse the suspicions of his co-conspirators. He took the time to carefully plot and suggest to Brutus, in particular, that Caesar was waiting to make all Romans submit to his power and control, thus implying that he would be a tyrant.Caesar was compared to a just hatched snake, which if left alone, would be extremely dangerous in the future.  In contrast, Antony, in Caesar's funeral speech, reminded the Roman citizens that Caesar found himself being offered the crown numerous times and and turning it down each time. Antony further uses this point to show what "honorable men" or lack of honor, these conspirators displayed.

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    Posted by terridudley on Tuesday October 27, 2009 at 9:11 AM