Julius Caesar American Revolution

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Julius Caesar and the Revolution of Revolutionaries Joshua Oke Williamstown High School English Language Arts II Honors Mr. Kuhn May 19, 2024

Abstract In this paper, the assassination of Julius Caesar and William Shakespeare’s subsequent drama, are discussed in length with two topics in particular. The necessary targets needed to support a revolution, and the effects on the populace of such goals. As a reference, sources citing Caesar, Machiavelli, and Queen Elizabeth I will be used to show continuity and change involving various revolutions over time. This report will focus on unsuccessful rebellions and coups as a critique of the principles of anarchy. One which fails to satisfy the necessary steps any insurance needs to usurp a …show more content…
The governing fear surrounding revolutionaries, their counters, and the importance of dispersing and consolidating power, are discussed in this report with due respect to the ultimate cause and effect of the topic in question.

A.D. 1865. Good Friday marks the beginning of a new era, one with vitality and hope. No one expects the tragic death to take place during the up-and-coming production Our American Cousins. True to form, Junius Brutus Booth’s second youngest, actor John Wilkes Booth, lives up to his father’s middle name, and with his single-shot Derringer emptied, he would secure it in infamy. Just like Julius Caesar, the oppressive figure Booth compares Lincoln to, tyrannicide proves only to be the fatal catalyst of the ensuing tragedy. The two dramatic deaths take place in theaters thousands of miles—and years—apart; with both Brutus and Booth acknowledging their respective goals being destroyed before their very eyes, moments before their bloody demise. So is the effect of William Shakespeare, one of England’s most renowned playwrights, who wrote a romanticized biographical play which quickly grew to shape the hearts …show more content…
The old order was one of chaos and dissatisfaction. Caesar had elevated the conspirators, his “friends” to the prestige they held when he was alive. Now the fractious conspirators had to deal with a fractious empire, only to find out too late who the cohesion of the land was. "That document [Sulla's Constitution] simply did not provide adequate mechanisms for the successful government of a fractious city-state or a perennially dissatisfied Italian peninsula, nor did it offer a superstructure supporting the governance of a far-flung empire" (Cook, 2014). The past that the conspirators wanted was not one that the people wanted. a weak state with tension gaining almost nationalistic pride was struck down by twenty-three fatal wounds. Like Dante, Shakespeare draws a parallel between Judas, an infamous betrayer, and Brutus. having Casear invite Brutus to wine at the end of Act II Scene II, the murder at the ninth hour, and Cassius scolding Anthony saying that he does not know what he is doing (Andrews, 1990). Sealing the message that Brutus and Cassius are not honorable men. Allowing for the reader to
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