| People suffering from delusions of grandeur | Later, I read the entire play in the modern English version |
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| I just really love this play narratively | On one hand, we have Cassius, the selfish, manipulative conspirator who, after the assassination, shows h In the course of teaching high school sophomores for thirty years, I have read Julius Caesar more than thirty times, and I never grow tired of its richness of detail or the complexity of its characters |
But my nerd ass loves it.
22| , with men of honorable intentions conspiring against a leader in the name of freedom, when really, they're envious of his popularity and fearful of his mandate to change things | And then of course there is Antony: brilliant, vicious, unscrupulous, and ultimately as unknowable as a tornado |
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| There's no fate as the villain!! I always say keep an eye on the son of your favorite squeeze | Beyond all that, though, this is just one of the most narratively strong plays I've ever read |
When you ask, "How can we protect democracy? He died too early for me to even care about him, but to be fair, I equally didn't care about the other characters either.
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