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Compare And Contrast Cinna And Julius Caesar

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The northern Americans rejoiced after the civil war similar to the Roman citizens in the beginning of act one when Caesar was to return home after defeating Pompey. The Roman people were ecstatic to hear he would return home and was not defeated. The northern Americans were relieved to know that slavery would soon end and they were in a safer time now. Both the Romans and the Americans were relieved to know they were safe in good hands. "What was planned was nothing less than the choreographed decapitation of the government". This idiom gestured to Lincoln's assassination as a planned end to the government. This figure of speech was added to the article to add dimension. The quote "hundreds of innocent suspects were rounded up, often on the flimsiest of evidence" explains the great numbers of blameless Americans taken in for questioning on little evidence. Similarly, in act 3 scene 3 of Julius Caesar, a poet addressed by the name Cinna is accused of being a part of the conspiracy. This is because there is a conspirator who also goes by the name Cinna, who the Roman people confused with the poet. …show more content…

Both men believed their national leader would gain more power and strip them of their freedom. Booth was a handsome, rich man loved by many similar to Cassius who was a well known honorable man in the senate. Both men were like bugs to a flame when it came to power. Lincoln may have been referred to as a "Bonaparte" because he stood against many southern american peoples views in a tyrannical way, or so they saw. The southerners saw slavery as a way of life and to take it away would be, in their case, an outrage. "still there is no denying that for Booth, hate became a preoccupation, preoccupation became fixation, and fixation became

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