PPT-The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

By William Shakespeare Ideas to Consider as We Read Most people resent others power Sometimes being superstitious is a good thing No cause political or other is worth dying for. Rome . was growing and quite wealthy after the second Punic War, but the republic faced serious problems.. Many . Roman politicians took bribes and often encouraged violent mobs to help them rise to power. Soldiers returning home from years at war could not find work because rich landowners used slaves to do the work once done by poor Romans. . Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest and his one disgrace was to conquer without war. He was alert and headstrong; his arms answered every summons of ambition or resentment; he never shrank from using the sword lightly; he followed up each success and snatched at the favor of Fortune, overthrowing every obstacle on his path to supreme power, and rejoicing to clear the way before him by destruction. --. Act III . Literary Elements. Stage Direction- . the manner in which the author arranges the players on the stage. Inverted Word Order-. author flips the usual conversational order of words for emphasis. BCE. led . to . thirteen . years of war and ultimately . to . the end of the Roman Republic. . By . 33. BCE. , both Caesar’s . most . trusted . lieutenant . and the last queen of Egypt . would . be dead, and a young man . Octavian was the son of Julius Caesar’s niece. . The first eighteen years of Octavian’s life were unremarkable, but a surprise in Julius Caesar’s will eventually resulted in him becoming Caesar Augustus, the ruler who transformed Rome into . In . the 6th C. . B.C.E., . Rome was ruled by a . family of brutal tyrants called the . Tarquins. . Led by . Lucius. Julius Brutus, the Romans fought against the monarchy . and . established . Rome as a . Octavian was the son of Julius Caesar’s niece. . The first eighteen years of Octavian’s life were unremarkable, but a surprise in Julius Caesar’s will eventually resulted in him becoming Caesar Augustus, the ruler who transformed Rome into . By William Shakespeare. Ideas to Consider as We Read…... Most people resent others’ power….. Sometimes being superstitious is a good thing….. No cause, political or other, is worth dying for…. BCE. led . to . thirteen . years of war and ultimately . to . the end of the Roman Republic. . By . 33. BCE. , both Caesar’s . most . trusted . lieutenant . and the last queen of Egypt . would . be dead, and a young man . All of Shakespeare’s plays are written in . Blank verse. . - this is unrhymed iambic pentameter.. . iambic pentameter . - An . iamb . contains an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. . The Play. The Characters. Julius Caesar – The Real Man. A historic figure who lived from 100 to 44 BC. Military Leader and Ruler of Rome. Statues currently exist in museums today. Caesar’s biography was written in . By William Shakespeare. Background on William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in England.. His parents were Mary Arden and John Shakespeare, a respected glove-maker and local politician.. pp.115. 1.. Getting acquainted with Shakespeare. 2. A look at Shakespeare. ’. s London. 3. The Elizabethan Theater - The Global Theater . 4. Biography of Julius Caesar and brief historical overview. Veni. Vidi. Vici.. I came. I saw. I conquered.. How many words can you think of that are associated with . Julius Caesar. ?. Caesar Salad. Orange Julius . Caesarian Section (C-Section). July!. Little Caesar's Pizza .