Hey guys, I hope you all are enjoying Caesar as much as I am. Below is a posting for you to comment on...
Literary critic T.S. Dorsch said that Caesar makes "such extravagant expressions of arrogance that all sympathy for him is alienated, and the action of the assassins is for the moment almost accepted as justifiable."
What do you think?
Lit Terms 2
5 years ago
14 comments:
I disagree! Yes Caesar was a tiny bit power hungry, but who isn't. Who does not like to be the one calling the shots from time to time? I think he worked hard for his rank and I think he should have got to keep it. The assassins could have handled it differently; killing him might have been a bit of an extreme. No one even mentioned to Caesar that they thought he was mad, they secretly decided he needed to die. How was Caesar going to show he was not ambitious if he had no clue that is what the people thought. I believe Caesar displayed more of a determined side than a dictator side.
Whitney
I disagree - strongly. Caesar wasn't perfect - nobody is - but an imperfection isn't a good reason to kill someone. He was a power hungry, like Whitney said, and I agree with that, but it wasn't so much that he deserved to be killed for it. Now, I like Brutus, I really do, but I think that he could have been the voice of reason when it came to if he should have been murdered or not. It's been said before, but everyone kept saying things like "Caesar is great!" and "He's like a god," but no one ever said "Hey, Caesar, get off your power trip and we'll be happy."
Really, I felt sympathy for him. Even though he wasn't in the story for long, I DID like his personality. He was ambitious and determined to get what he wanted, and I respect him for that.
Arrogance isn't a reason to murder someone, you know.
--Felicity
I agree. Caesar was completely power hungry. He really was "a serpent's egg." If he had been the dictator of Rome there is no telling how Rome would have ended up. Once he made it to dictator of Rome he would have wanted more power. The assassins were right to assassinate Caesar, there was no other way to protect Rome. As power hungry as Caesar was he would have tried anything to get the position of dictator.
-Hannah
I beg to differ. We are all are arrogant in different areas. If it were justifiable to kill one for such, we would all be dead. Although, I feel some sympathy for Caesar, I feel more for the people. In conclusion, I agree it was right for him to be taken from authority. Unfortunately, the way of that had to be death.
Lydia
Mudering someone should not be acceptable under any circumstance. Even though Caesar was power hungry he still didn't deserve to be killed. Basically throughout this whole entire play everything was brought back on the next man, karma basically. When Caesar had Pompey he to was later killed by his closes group of people. The people that killed him ended up dying by killing themselves. Killing a man should not be justifable no matter what the situation. The people that are grieving over Caesar should grieve because he is a man close to them just like anybody else.
-Cierra Anderson-
I disagree. Sure Caesar was power hungry, but at sometime in our life, everyone is power hungry about something. If we killed everyone in the world that was power hungry, then we would have nobody left. Yes, I think that he didn't deserve to be in power because Rome would have gone down the drain if he was, But I also believe that Brutus and the others handled it the wrong way. They could have thought up a better of making Caesar be thrown from power then killing him I think.
Graham
I actually could see both sides of the story. I mean, Caesar was power hungry yes, but did he really deserve to die? I know they thought it was for the good of Rome. Maybe a nice conversation about it would've sufficed? Well, we can't really change the past, so, whatever happened, happened. I wonder what would've happened if they never killed Caesar....
I disagree. Caesar was power hungry and he probably would not have been the best thing for Rome, but I don't think killing him was the right decision to make in order to take power away from him. It really wouldn't have helped Rome any more either. There are alternatives, and just because Caesar was a bit arrogant and self-centered doesn't mean he didn't have good intentions. The fact that someone else perceived them to be bad, doesn't mean they should act out and go as far as to kill Caesar to keep him from coming into power.
To an extent, this is correct, I think. People get caught in the heat of the moment and do stupid things(how ever long that moment may be for some, God only knows). Caesar was kind of cocky. No, he was really cocky. Not his best asset. Basically, Caesar thought he was all that and a bag of chips. This ticked some people off and they didn't like him. Sounds like high school. But let's face it, if some one thinks they should be put on a pedestal for the world to see because they're "such a treasure", chances are you're not going to feel to bad for them if things don't go their way. So this and being caught in the heat of the moment could justify Caesar's death. Just for a while.
If you want to get into right and wrong, then the act was entirely wrong. Not even for a second was this right, but it did sound like a good idea. That's where we once again step into the heat of the moment. But no one really deserved to die. Of course, this play was pretty full of intense and extreme characters, i.e. Portia. She was kind of a creep. Anyways, yes. I think Caesar's arrogance came back in bit him where it hurts, even though this didn't last very long thanks to Antony.
Also, I would like to point out to everyone that this statement is true. Everyone thought the action of the conspiracy was great. It did not say that it was accepted forever, but "for the moment", and that moment probably lasted for like 10 or 15 minutes, when Antony spoke and convinced everyone this act was foolish. That is all.
rachel c.
--the names were better this time!
Zradva left the last anonymous comment.
What he said is true. Caesar was obsessed with getting more power. Maybe if he would have thought a little more about others than himself, he wouldn't have been killed.
»Elijah«
Elijah--- tooooooooo short.
I totally 100% disagree with that because nobody is anywhere close to perfect and of course Caesar was "power hungry". In that situation who wouldn't be. I mean when your ruling a country, state, city, or whatever it's going to change you. Sometimes for the good or sometimes for the bad. In my eyes I honestly think the conspirators went alittle to far. I don't think they should have killed him. They should have just sat him down with him and told him how they deeply felt about him and his actions that they think he's going to take. The whole killing thing could have been avoided and innocent people could have lived, but no they were arrogant. What Brutus and them did wasn't necessary.
**Casey Johnson**
First anonymous was Tory
Post a Comment