Essays on Mark Antony

Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. It is about a group of conspirators in Rome who kill their king, Julius Caesar. The play follows the life of Brutus (at the time) – a conspirator yet an honourable man. His rival throughout the novel is Mark Antony- Caesar’s good friend. The pair’s likeness and…

The legendary story of Cleopatra has endured for over two thousand years. Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic movie, “Cleopatra”, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richtard Burton depicts the end of Ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty with the fall of Cleopatra. Cleopatra was in fact the last of the great the pharaohs of Egypt and it…

In Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar”, there is much death, much tragedy, and of course, a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a person of noble or influential birth, who has a moral personality. In order to be identified as a tragic hero, a character must have a hamartia, which is a fatal flaw. But as…

In Shakespeare’s tragedy/history/Roman play Antony and Cleopatra, we are told the story of two passionate and power-hungry lovers. In the first two Acts of the play we are introduced to some of the problems and dilemmas facing the couple (such as the fact that they are entwined in an adulterous relationship, and that both of…

If anyone had hoped that the assassination of Julius Caesar would bring about the return of Republican rule, they must surely have been disappointed, for the political turbulence simply continued. Caesar’s assassins and his old commanders battled for control, while orators like Cicero labored to save the old Republic. In the and, Julius Caesar’s great…

or circumstance is caught up in a sequence of events that inevitably results in disaster. Brutus, because of his actions and behaviors in the The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is considered a tragic hero. He does a number of things that brings his own tragedy such as letting Mark Antony speak to the crowd in…

I believe that being a beloved leader has a huge effect on being a better ruler. In 44 B. C. Julius Caesar was assassinated by his senate chamber. Soon his nephew and adopted son, Gaius Octavian, would join forces with Mark Anthony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus into a three-way dictatorship. This transformed Rome from being…

It is one of several Roman plays that Shakespeare wrote, based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar is not the central character in its action; he appears in only three scenes, and is killed at the beginning…

In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Marc Antony changes his view of Brutus as more is revealed to him. Antony is sought on the revenge of his dear friend Julius Caesar, of whom was assassinated by Brutus and his comrades. Antony sees no goodness in the mind and heart of Brutus and, as a result,…

Contrasting CharactersIn Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius are contrasting characters. They differ in the way they perceive Antony as a threat to the assassination plot, their dominance in personality, and their moral fiber. In Julius Caesar, Brutus is the more naive, dominant and noble character, while Cassius is the more perceptive,…