Plutarch's and Shakespeare's Caesar         Julius Caesar was in a precarious situation. It could be interpreted that he deserved the fate that pursued him for ambition or some other reason, or that it was a cold murder for which he did not deserve. Both Shakespeare and Plutarch wrote about Julius Caesar. Each tells the story a little differently. Plutarchs version is more sympathetic to Caear's situation.         Shakespeare shows him to be an insensitive and conceited person …showed first 75 words of 365 total…

…showed last 75 words of 365 total…after Caesar's death the Romans were enraged to revenge him at the sight of his body and out of their love for him, in Plutarch's writing. In Shakespeare's the Roman were enraged but quelled by Brutus' speech and enraged again by Antony's. This showing the Roman to be mindless, moved only by a good speech and not by their feelings for Caesar. This again showing Plutarch's writing to be more sympathetic to Caesar than Shakespear's.