“Julius Caesar vs. Mean Girls” William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar carries with it timeless themes that continue to be explored in modern cinema. Fate versus free will occurs in Mark Waters' Mean Girls. Characters attempt to grow in power while taking down those with it. Manipulation is utilized. The “heroes” and those against them begin to get confused along the way. In both, the characters lose sight of right and wrong. The decisions and actions of these characters create unavoidable consequences sealing their own fates. Even though these characters fail to overcome their fates in both, Julius Caesar and Mean Girls, they show a strong correlation between how they affect each other. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, there are many …show more content…
On the other hand, Cady has just moved to North Shore High School knowing nothing about public schools. Cady becomes friends with Janis, and together they come up with a way to take Regina out of her power. It is decided that Cady will become one of the “Plastics” and turn them all against each other. Cady is able to infiltrate the “Plastics” hierarchy and become one of them. While Janis and Cady’s plan works, Cady turns the four “Plastics” against each other there which in turn causes another problem. After the turmoil created in the social circle, Cady must assume the role Regina previously held, becoming the one with power and dominance in the …show more content…
Throughout the play, this theme affects many of the characters. A way this message is shown in Julius Caesar is how being rash can have severe consequences. The characters' fates were shown in many ways, while their free will affected whether or not they conquered it; based on the decisions they made and how they approached it. In Mean Girls this same theme also holds a role in the plot. The director conveys a message through characters with this theme. A well-known example is Regina’s actions and where that got her, to treat others with respect. The point is to bring attention to how someone's actions, in this example the dominating and manipulating treatment of others, affected fate. The way Regina treated people caused her to have a grim
This becomes Sammy’s biggest change, the decision he makes all for one girl. He had quit his job, not thinking about the consequences all for the attention of Queenie. His act of sympathy became Sammy’s only strong action the entire time the girls have been there. However, the girls do not give him the attention nor the impression he desired. He had quit for no reason and soon after realizes it when leaving the store, he was
(HOOK) Novelist Sean Covey once wrote, “We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.” His statement compels the reader to realize the effect that results from their actions. (CI) In the same way, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is an exceptional example of how misguided decisions lead to dire consequences. (GS1)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic and dramatic play about the awful outcome of love between two immature teens. The families of the two lovers are rivals and have a tension between each other that would oppose the love between Romeo and Juliet. The outcome of Romeo and Juliet ultimately occurred because of the human faults of impulsiveness, irresponsibility, and selfishness. In Romeo and Juliet, the characters are regularly victims of their own impulsiveness.
Agnes' real life is alternated with Agnes playing D&D, uncovering the secrets Tilly deliberately keeps hidden as well as the things Agnes didn't even realize because she was so committed to being "simple". When Agnes' younger sister, Tilly, created a D&D world called New Landia in a notebook, she began researching with Tilly’s friend Chuck Biggs, the nearby gamer who used be Tilly's dungeon master and narrates for Tilly throughout the play, and the world Tilly had formed. There were brave heroes who were all gay, as well as vicious monsters who were all characterized after high school bullies. Now Tilly and Agnes are on a quest to find Tilly’s lost soul who was in the hands of the former overlord of the underworld Orcus. Orcus shows Tilly and her friends the New Landia Map to guide her to her lost soul.
Cady does, however, later overthrow Regina's reign, but not in hopes of taking it for herself, as Regina initially
The two compiled a map of North Shore High and how Cady will survive it. A big part of the map was the cafeteria and where all the different cliques sat. Cady was warned about a certain clique called “the Plastics”, she was told they are the worst people she would ever meet. The Plastics are the popular clique at Cady’s new
She only spent time with her friend Damian and she did all that she could to stay clear of Regina. She talked about her conflict with Regina instead of confronting it, yet once Cady arrived she was ready to change her style to a dominating style so that Regina could finally be taken down (Hocker & Wilmot, 2014, p.
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall” by William Shakespeare. Both “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar '' written by Shakespeare and “Mean Girls” written by Tina Fey contain rising to power. It shows how much power one person can truly have on others. Nobody can rise to power without the help of others. Julius Caesar and Regina George have way more power over everyone they were around, and Brutus and Cady had help while they were rising to power to take down their protagonists.
Caesar Essay Fate and free will are the two aspects that seem to rule one’s life. They weave their hands into the choices that are made. The way one acts are based on these two important ideologies. Shakespeare approaches these ideas in a way that creates a dual mindset.
Regina George ran the school, she was the most popular student in the school. Students would run the opposite way from her, she would also push people out of the way so that she and her “plastics: could walk in a straight line in the hall ways. Towards the end of the movie Cady realizes that name calling does not make her better than anyone else. She states “calling someone else fat will not make you any skinner, calling someone else stupid will not make you any smarter” (Waters, 2004). This was a turning point for Cady because got so caught up with becoming a “plastic” that she started to act like them and did not stay true to
Romeo and Juliet Essay Chaos in the streets of Verona erupt again. A day after a fight with the Capulet and Montague family, Tybalt kills Mercutio. Soon after, Romeo kills Tybalt for revenge. Is this controlled by fate, or by the character
The main character Cady from Mean Girls is very similar to Brutus. Cady backstabbed Regina George in Mean Girls. In Julius Caesar, Brutus was a part of the killing of Julius Caesar. Both of these characters relate to each other because they both pretended to be someone's friends to backstab them. Another reason these two characters are similar is because Cady tried to get everyone to turn on Regina and at the end of the movie everyone started to turn on her and hate her.
Before Cady’s leaving “The Plastics” she is plotting Regina’s downfall and says they should feed her “Kalteen Bars”(Fey, 153) so that she becomes gourdly and loses her sex appeal. During Cady’s redeeming of herself she apologizes to her teacher Ms.Norbury for writing of her in the burn book. After Cady redeems herself to the majority of the people she has wronged, she apologizes to Regina expressing that feels her bus accident and public humiliation were her “Fault”(Fey, 188). Cady’s plotting of Regina’s downfall demonstrates the corruptness she manifested before redeeming herself. Through apologizing to her teacher Cady is gaining a version of herself that is more responsible and admitting of faults; character change.
She learns about the school’s cliques through Janis and Damian. The two of them warn Cady about “the Plastics” who are the most exclusive clique in the school. Regina, the leader of the group, takes an interest in Cady and invites her to
This was seen towards the end of the movie as Cady began to realize her conformity resulted in her being known as the North Shore’s bully and “mean girl.” At the end of the movie you see Cady realizing what her conformity has done to her social identity and begins to change her conformed attributes and apologize for her