Book Review: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

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Book Review: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

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Holy grail. I had no idea how hooked it’d be until I started the play and could not put it down. Julius Caesar – the play – is frightening, in the way were real men and leaders can be frightening and why is that? Is it because of the power of speech (free and restrictive) and persuasion? The art of rhetorics, which the art to appeal to people’s moral compass and shared valued. It is easy to side on one of two camps until it isn’t. War is complex (and ridiculous). People are complex (and ridiculous). Heck, leaders are complex (and! ridiculous!). This is the same years ago and years to come. I’m not saying this somewhat fictionalized version of history blew me away but at times it did as I swayed and scrambled between the speeches of Cassius, Brutus, and Mark Antony. Honestly, this play possibly has more depth than I initially believed it too. And, as always, Shakespeare’s poetic language is always bold and to be depicted on in the loveliest of ways possible. 

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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