Tag: Brutus

  • Julius Caesar: politicians use ideals in order to manipulate naive politicians and the pleb into doing what serve their personal interest or quest of power

    Julius Caesar: politicians use ideals in order to manipulate naive politicians and the pleb into doing what serve their personal interest or quest of power

    The play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is based on Sir Thomas North’s 1579 translation (via a French version) of Plutarch’s Bioi parallēloi (Parallel Lives), the drama takes place in 44 BCE, after Caesar has returned to Rome.  Fearing Caesar’s ambition, Cassius forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans. He persuades the reluctant Brutus — Caesar’s…

  • Reflection II 

    Reflection II 

    Wikitionary – Reflection: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reflection Wikitionary – Réflexion: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/réflexion For example, when Brutus, in Julius Caesar, says, “No Cassius, the eye not sees itself / But by reflection, by some other things,” he uses vowels repeatedly to get his message across–one does not see himself through his own eyes, but through the viewpoints of others. Cas. Tell me,…