The play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare has multiple recurring themes. One of these themes is the theme of gender. The theme of gender in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is that women are seen as inferior to men. Shakespeare’s motives for including these could be the situations of gender inequality in Elizabethan England. The theme of masculinity and femininity is supported by examples in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, customs in Shakespeare’s times and contemporary times, and
in Caesar is displayed through the women’s nominal and tenuousness involvement in the play. In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, women are viewed as ineligible. The first woman, Calpurnia, is Caesar's wife, and she is the epitome of sexist Elizabethan understanding of woman. Instead of being controlled, she controls. She exists as a vitriolic burden for her husband's character by inveighing on him. The first contact with Calpurnia is during the feast of Lupercal. Antony is asked by Caesar to
From the infatuated gushing of Romeo and Juliet, to the noble speeches of valor seen in Julius Caesar, tragedies have been portrayed in many different contexts and time periods. Although each is separated in plot and setting, they are all bound together by many unifying traits of their genre. Chief among these is the plight of the tragic hero. As defined by Aristotle, a tragic hero has five core traits: hamartia, peripeteia, anagnorisis, hubris, and a tragic fate. Through these five steps, Aristotelian