Caesar
...wer immediately. To follow through with their plans, A band of conspirators joined together to kill Caesar. Once assassinated, the leaders of the group, Cassius and Brutus, were forced into exile by the Romans. The characters of Julius Caesar are wonderfully written. Within the dialogue, raw human characteristics and emotions really shine through, from the dilemma Brutus faces with the guilt of killing his friend, “I loved Caesar, but I loved Rome more…”, to the greed and envy of Cassius, and finally, the conniving, persuading ways of Marc Antony, especially in his speech to the crowd, in which he manages to change the views of the entire crowd to turn them against the conspirators. The inner struggles between the characters are so real; it’s as if the reader is watching these lives being played out for the first time. The complex characters are definitely what hold “Julius Caesar” together. Without the full emotions of the characters, the play would be very dry and dull. Shakespeare does an excellent job in making the text come alive. Unfortunately, within any text, there is room for improvement. Some of the slower parts of the play seemed as though they dragged on without holding on to the interest of other scenes. For instance, in act 2, scene 1, when discussing the possible oath taken to ...