Book #43

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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare

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In this drama, there wasn't one person that could be seen as honest and/or "good". I get that Shakespeare tried to show Brutus in a positive light, that Brutus helped kill Caesar for the good of all Rome - that didn't change the fact that he helped murder a man who trusted him, who considered him a friend. There was absolutely nothing positive about that. And not just that - his wife committed suicide in his absence and he wasn't moved by it at all, even though he proclaimed his love for her shortly before his departure. Eh. And Marcus Antonius and Octavian - they spouted how they wanted to bring Caesar's killers to justice, but all they really wanted was to take power away from Brutus and Cassius. Maybe I'm judging these characters too harshly but that was the impression they made on me.

Also, I didn't like the style in which the drama was written. At the beginning, there were these long, long scenes where the characters plotted Caesar's demise - at the end, the drama suddenly became really choppy, with scenes barely half a page long. It felt like the author ran out of space/time or something. Very weird.