Similarities Between Shakespeare And Plutarch Julius Caesar

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Plutarch’s account of the death of Julius Caesar is calm and factual. He gives a probable explanation for most of the peoples’ actions that he describes; these explanations lengthen the actual death of Caesar. Shakespeare wrote the death of Caesar much more concisely; the actual murder of Caesar is only two spoken lines long in Shakespeare’s narration. Although Shakespeare’s adaptation of Caesar’s death is briefer, numerous similarities can be found between the two classic accounts. Shakespeare and Plutarch both detailed Brutus’s betrayal in their stories. In each case, Julius Caesar was completely unaware and unsuspicious, and utterly abandoned his will to live once he discovered that Brutus came to kill him as well. The commoners and officials

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