{"id":76180,"date":"2025-06-25T04:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essays.homeworkacetutors.com\/julius-caesar-war-on-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:53:32","slug":"julius-caesar-war-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/julius-caesar-war-on-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Caesar\/War on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shakespeare\u2019s play Julius Caesar presents conflicting perspectives of Julius Caesar\u2019s death. Shakespeare employs a variety of dramatic and language techniques to enhance the contrasting views of the assassination. Similarly President Bush\u2019s Address at the 5th Anniversary of 9\/11 and the article War is not a solution for Terrorism by Howard Zinn, deals with differing views of US occupation in Iraq. Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy Julius Caesar clearly presents conflicting perspectives of the assassination of Caesar, a powerful and respected leader, viewed by the conspirators as overly ambitious, but by Marc Antony as a loyal servant of Rome.<\/p>\n

Brutus and the conspirators believe that Caesar\u2019s death is necessary in retaining democracy, whereas Antony regards the act as brutal murder. Shakespeare positions the audience to view the assassination in negative aspect, through Antony\u2019s passionate eulogy, as compared to Brutus\u2019 austere speech. This is understandable, as given Shakespeare\u2019s Elizabethan context, where the removal of a legitimate leader would be viewed as treason.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare presents the internal conflict that occurs in Brutus when he contemplates the assassination.<\/p>\n

He tries to rationalise his decisions through the balance of the language, weighing the arguments of the situation. \u201cTh\u2019 abuse of greatness\u2026 disjoins remorse from power. And to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections swayed more than his reasons. \u201d Brutus\u2019 soliloquy is stern as he presents a logical and justified reason for killing Caesar and this becomes his main argument as he presents to the crowd. Brutus\u2019 funeral speech is a short piece of prose, pragmatically justifying his and the conspirators\u2019 actions.<\/p>\n

The speech is succinct and balanced stating \u201cBut as he [Caesar] was ambitious, I slew him. \u201d Brutus\u2019 lack of emotions reinforces that the assassination was purely for the greater good and not for personal profit. \u201cThere is tears for his love, joy for his fortunes and death for his ambition. \u201d Brutus uses rhetorical questions to attempt to justify his actions and whether Caesar\u2019s lust for power threatens Rome\u2019s democratic society. \u201cHad you rather Caesar were living to die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men. Nearing the end of his life, Brutus maintains his reasons for killing Caesar, and his nobility that his actions were morally acceptable for his love of Rome and loyalty to the people. Brutus\u2019 funeral speech ends with a succinct statement reinforcing the main thesis that Caesar\u2019s death was for the benefit of Rome and thus morally justified. \u201cWith this I depart. That I slew my best lover for the good of Rome. \u201d However, Shakespeare presents an alternative view of the assassination through Antony\u2019s passionate oration.<\/p>\n

Antony\u2019s speech uses emotional poetry to expose the malicious motives of the conspirators. \u201cIf you have tears, prepare to shed them now\u2026 At the base of Pompey\u2019s statue great Caesar fell. Then I and you, and all of us fell down, whilst bloody treason flourished\u2026 \u201d After Brutus\u2019 speech, the crowd was wholly convinced of his intentions. Shakespeare the uses Antony\u2019s manipulation of the crowd through rhetoric to engage his audience and force an alternate perspective to Caesar\u2019s death. \u201cHe [Caesar] brought many captives home\u2026 whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? Antony also reminisces about Caesar\u2019s compassion through personal and emotional language, portraying the loving side of Caesar in contrast to the power hungry leader previously presented by Brutus. \u201cWhen the poor hath cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. \u201d Antony\u2019s speech owes much of its influence to repetition. Each time Antony recalls Brutus\u2019 claims that Caesar was \u201cambitious\u201d, the claim loses credibility. Similarly, each time Antony declares how \u201chonourable\u201d Brutus and the conspirators are, there is an underpinning sarcasm mocking them.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare uses Caesar\u2019s body as a powerful tool to eventually sway public opinion against Brutus. Antony descends from the pulpit carrying Caesar\u2019s corpse and vividly describing the wounds. \u201cThou bleeding piece of earth\u2026 wounds which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips. \u201d Thus he strikes the final blow to the Brutus and the conspirators, and creates mutiny. Likewise, but on a different event, US President George W Bush and US political activist Howard Zinn also presents conflicting perspectives of US occupation in Iraq and the morality of the \u2018war on terrorism\u2019.<\/p>\n

Following the events of September 11 2001, the US army and other allied nations waged a war against Iraq and their leader Saddam Hussein, claiming he possessed weapons- of- mass- destruction and harbouring the terrorist group responsible for the attack. The occupation of US and allied troops in Iraq is controversial as its legitimacy and morality are questioned. In his \u201cAddress at the 5th Anniversary of 9\/11\u201d, President Bush justified US occupation in Iraq. Like Antony, Bush uses highly emotive and descriptive language to address his audience to show the destruction and consequences resulted from 9\/11. On 9\/11, our nation saw the face of evil\u2026 Nineteen men attacked us with barbarity\u2026 They murdered people of all colours and nationalities \u2013and made war upon the entire free world. \u201d He reminded the audience of the trauma of the event and uses the simple idea of defending America and protecting the world against the \u2018face of evil\u201d. Similarly to Antony\u2019s oration, Bush uses repetition of \u2018courage\u2019 to great effect to praise the heroic actions of the American people and thus encourages them to continue support of the occupation of US troops.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Bush attacks the terrorist\u2019s actions through powerful emotions stating \u201cthey [the terrorists] are driven by a perverted \u2026 ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance and despises all dissent. \u201d This allows him to portray the evil soulless nature of the terrorist and justifies his legitimate response to occupy Iraq. etBush\u2019s speech is also very personal using inclusive language to demonstrate that it requires a united force to defeat the terrorists and manifests that his decision to invade Iraq is for the greater good. \u201cWe are now in\u2026 struggle between tyranny and freedom. We are fighting to maintain a way of life\u2026 and we will never back down\u2026 \u201d President Bush presents a valid perspective on the issue of US occupation in Iraq, stipulating that the occupation is legitimately acceptable in bringing democracy to Iraq, justice to the terrorists and securing safety for the world. However, political activist Howard Zinn believes that war on terrorism is unnecessary and \u201cmorally reprehensible\u201d. In his article \u201cWar is not a solution for terrorism\u201d presents a more realistic blunt perspective on the war.<\/p>\n

Like Brutus, Zinn employs succinct and emotionless language to deal with the reality of war and the sufferings that encompasses it. Unlike Bush, who concentrates on the emotions of attack and the devastation of the American people, Zinn focuses on the destruction inflicted on the innocent Iraqi civilians. \u201cThe United States bombardment\u2026 has been an utter failure in its claimed objective of bringing democracy and stability to Iraq. \u201d Zinn clearly confesses that the war has been unsuccessful, something Bush does not acknowledge.<\/p>\n

Zinn attacks the morality of Bush\u2019s decisions by comparing to John Hershey\u2019s male character in \u2018The War Lover\u2019 who \u201cloves to drop bombs on people, boasts about his sexual conquests and is impotent. \u201d This harsh judgement suggests that the US occupation is based on one man\u2019s selfless and unreasonable decision, and thus the unjustified attempt to invade Iraq. The oxymoron \u201cthe killing of innocent people in Iraq is called accidental, whereas the deaths caused by terrorists are deliberate\u201d shows the contradictory nature of US\u2019s objectives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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