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A 2.5 page paper which compares and contrasts the two lone female characters in Shakespeare’s tragedy, in terms of the love and loyalty they show to their husbands. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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2 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGcalpor.rtf
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However, the domestic sphere is not overlooked by the Bard, for in Act II, the wives of the victim and murderer are introduced. Calpurnia and Portia knew their husbands
better than anyone. They were loyal, loving pillars of strength and stability. But they were forced to remain behind the scenes, whatever quiet and steady influences they could
on their husbands. Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus were molded from the same Roman prototype of male dominance. They were the masters of their home and their women
were little more than slaves, expected to be seen and not heard. When they spoke, they were, more often than not, ignored by their husbands, and as the text
indicates, this resulted in devastating consequences for both Caesar and Brutus. Though appearing only briefly in the play, Calpurnia shares her husbands regal stature. When a prophetic nightmare interrupts
her normally sound sleep, Calpurnia feels compelled to share her cryptic vision with her skeptical husband: "Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, / Yet now they fright me. There is
one within, / Besides the things that we have heard and seen, / Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. / A lioness hath whelped in the streets; /
And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds, / In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, / Which drizzled
blood upon the Capitol; / The noise of battle hurtled in the air, / Horses did neigh and dying men did groan, / And ghosts did shriek and squeal about
the streets. / O Caesar! These things are beyond all use, / And I do fear them" (II.ii.13-26). Because, as she notes, she is ordinarily led more by common
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