Why students read julius caesar in today society?

Question

can you please give me reason and against for and why students read the book julius caesar in today's society.

Answer 1

For the language and the poetry of the play!  The story is fairly similar to all stories of betrayal, and the characters are somewhat stilted, but the language is wonderful.  Students read Julius Caesar today to give them the opportunity to become exposed to the powerful language that was created by William Shakespeare.  He was a master who was able to blend story telling with some of the most beautiful language ever written.

Since his plays have endured for more than 400 years, I am sure they will continue for 400 more, and be just as powerful.  It is not the story that is of utmost importance, it is the language.

Answer 2

Students read Julius Caesar because the ideas of the play still apply to every person today. There is a person in the play that can apply to each one of us, based on our similarity of personalities. There are people what have every quality--honesty, bravery, shrewdness, etc. This play helps the students understand human nature.

Not only is this play beneficial from the point of personality study, it also contains a lot of figurative language. This language helps the students identify the different kinds of languages that can be used in writing, such as similes, metaphors, parallelism.

The play also contains history, and Shakespeare categorized this play as a history himself.

Answer 3

Julius Caesar is probably the easiest of Shakespeare's plays to understand for middle-school, or junior-high level students.  It's a good introduction to Shakespeare, a chance for kids to become acquainted with his work, his language, etc., and how plays were written in those days.

When I was in jr. high school, we read JC in class. We assigned each part to a different person and read through it that way, and it made MUCH more sense than reading it like a book.  Much easier to understand.  And years later, I was a speech-drama major and we were often assigned plays to read, from the Ancient Greeks to modern playwrights, and we students would get together in someone's apartment or meeting rooms in the library and read through them the same way!