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Published: 18.06.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Moral Absolutes on Shakespeare "Julius Caesar"', 1.
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Julius Caesar
Is there a person who is entirely good or entirely bad? No, humans are not like that. Life is not a Hollywood movie where there is a good guy and a bad guy. Humans are more complicated than that. Depending on the situation, they can be good or bad; they can't be all good or all bad. That is one of the reasons many people like Shakespeare's plays, because characters are not moral absolutes. They are complicated and psychologically similar to how people would react to situations in real life. In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar there are no characters with absolute morality. …

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