“All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.” “Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” “As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.”
“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.” “In the end, it is impossible to become what others believe you are.” My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,Īnd I must pause till it come back to me.” O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,Īnd men have lost their reason…Bear with me What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? You all did love him once, not without cause: I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:Īmbition should be made of sterner stuff: Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: He hath brought many captives home to Rome, He was my friend, faithful and just to me: (For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all The good is oft interred with their bones, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears The play is very difficult to read or see, as is Othello It is obvious our “lawmakers” are unfamiliar with either play, or perhaps read the lessons all too well.) Let’s go to the power play by play of all time: Julius Caesar and the words of our guest author/commentator of this very difficult to see play from the past whose words describe the ambitions and arguments we hear today. “Et tu, Brute?” was Shakespeare’s quote of Julius Caesar, after Brutus stabbed him. Ides for those unfamiliar with latin stands for 15.
“Beware the ides of March,” is a prophecy a soothsayer informed Caesar just about now before the day Caesar was stabbed and killed. How familiar? The headline of this article is most appropriate: Brutus was convinced that assassinating Caesar was for the good of Rome. Brutus was Caesar’s friend, and yet he was persuaded to kill Caesar because the Senate told Brutus that Caesar was too ambitious. It is timely and worthy to be read.īrutus was used by the conspiring Roman Senate. Shakespeare wrote his play about the event before 1599 A.D. This angered the Roman Senate and resulted in a power backlash ending in Caesar’s assassination by his friend, Brutus, on the floor of the Roman Senate on March 15, 45 B.C., 2065 years ago this coming Monday. Romans revered him and he became emperor. Julius Caesar was a military leader who conquered what we recognize today is known as the Roman Empire. One is Julius Caesar, the other Othello, each portraying the demise of two powerful men leaders who were destroyed by persons they once ruled and revered by the jealousy of their one-time colleagues too timid to rule but jealous of their leader’s ability to rule because they sought the adulation that is bequeathed strictly by those who have attained power. Our guest columnist is the Bard: William Shakespeare wrote two plays, pertinent to this telling. His voice may hearken to the past yet it describes the drama we are immersed in today as portrayed in two plays about power as written by the Bard himself. Scenarios and circumstances painfully familiar to those cognizant of the greatest playwright of all time in the English language one William Shakespeare. The positions our leaders or would-be leaders of New York State are being swallowed in the wake of the unsubstantiated, not formally charged allegations against Governor Andrew M. ROME, ITALY, WHITE PLAINS, NY, and YONKERS, NY - The character of our State Senators, Assemblymembers, Congressmembers, and Senators are revealing who and what they are as discerned in ways they are oblivious to and unaware.
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