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…of treachery to their master-i.e. Caesar. Dante finds both Brutus and Cassius being eaten by Satan, a three-headed beast who devours souls of the ninth level. Brutus and Cassius are two of the unlucky ones. It is this level that I think is equal to the death…

…they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away” ( V. i. 206-209)? Hamlet saw examples of lives crumbling to dust. Twenty thousand men and twenty thousand ducats are spent on “A little patch of ground…

…Constantius, an army officer, and his mother, who he loved dearly throughout his life, was Helena. His father was promoted to the rank of Caesar, or deputy emperor, in AD 293, thus Constantine was destined to be emperor. (Varner 2) After his fathers promotion…

…then to murder the character, and doom the fate of the work (Caesar 37). It is unnatural to alter a person’s life, whether they be a real person or simply a figure of literature. Pirandello instead urges the author to let the character engross his mind, to become…

…and destroying them? Thinking back to the reign of Caesar, when Romans played a sport like golf by striking a feather-stuffed ball with club-shaped branches, it’s obvious that some things were better in the past. Today, millions of all around the world play a game…

…the entire city, then pour salt all over it so nothing would grow on it ever again. Many other great battles took place as Caesar triumphed in Gaul, north of Italy. There he conquered the whole area but only for his personal gain and to get a Triumph when he…

…not either know of the historical facts, or did not care for them. This kind of thing has been going on for a long time, for instance, Shakespeare, gave a false depiction of Caesar as "a pompous, posturing old gentleman without an idea in his head, who for some…

…, was equally expressed to all, from the slaves to Caesar. From the races held in the Circus Maximus, to the gladiator tournaments of the Colossuem, and to the beauty that was contained by the city of Pompeii. From the visions of men, visions that seemed to come…

…in safety. There is none but he/Whose being I do fear...Mark Antony’s was my Caesar”(III, I, 53-57). This clearly shows that Macbeth has lost all of his reason because of his ambition. Macbeth has come a long way from being honorable. He has killed the king…

…time in vain”, the narrator explains its really not worth the effort. The rhyming couplet is the solution to the problem, or in this case the narrators pain. The couplet reads: “Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am,/ And wild for to hold, though I seem…