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Difference Between Plutarch's and Shakespeare's Caesar
Julius Caesar was in a precarious situation. It could be interpreted
that he deserved the fate that pursued him for ambition or some other reason, or
that it was a cold murder for which he did not deserve. Both Shakespeare and
Plutarch wrote about Julius Caesar. Eac ....
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.... same coincidences in the play as warnings to him that
out of his own stupidity he did not take.
Lastly, after Caesar's death the Romans were enraged to revenge him at
the sight of his body and out of their love for him, in Plutarch's writing. In
Shakespeare's the Roman were enraged but quelled by Brutus' speech and enraged
again by Antony's. This showing the Roman to be mindless, moved only by a good
speech and not by their feelings for Caesar. This again showing Plutarch's
writing to be more sympathetic to Caesar than Shakespear's.
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