How are love and Hate portrayed in Julius Caesar & Porphyria’s Lover?

Shakespeare shows us that love and hate are used together. Brutus’s decision to stab Caesar in the back isn’t Was what I believe, a difficult choice for Brutus. He has to choose between his loyalty to Rome and his loyalty to his friend, who seems like he could become a tyrant if he becomes king. When Brutus hears how the commoners are treating Caesar like a king already. he’s worried for Rome.

 

Brutus’s Speach                                                                                                                                                           ‘Friends Roman countrymen lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar not to praise him’. this is signifying that he has made a huge sacrifice by not only killing Caesar himself but telling the people of Rome that he did it for Rome.

 

‘there was a Brutus once that would have brook’d Th-eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easy as a King’. this is showing that Brutus was once treated like a king or was around that status this could also be a way of Cassius trying to make Brutus feel as great as Caesar and make him want to go through his actions of killing Caesar. Cassius also asks Brutus to love him like a friend ‘you bare to stubborn and to strange a hand over your friend that loves you

“And this man is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature and must bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him”. The way Cassius is talking about himself is as if he is distancing himself from himself,it seems that he’s trying to get someone to take pity on him by saying that he’s some sort of odd creature. this implies that he is envious of Caesar and that he wishes that he had such power that Caesar has. Cassius is ambitious for power,’men at sometimes are masters of their fate the fault is not in our stars but in our selves.’He also manipulates the friendship of most of the people around him to obtain power. ‘I see thy honourable metal may be wrought’ this metaphor is showing that Cassius believe that he can do what ever he wants. ‘who so firm that cannot be seduced’,

Within  Porphyria’s Lover, Robert Browning shows love as something to be feared in this dramatic monologue. In the start of the poem, the speaker goes out of his way to describe the setting.  We are told: ‘the sullen wind was soon awake it tore the elm tops down for spite and did its worst to vex the lake.’ in this Browning personifies hate by describing the weather with word such as tore, spite and vex which could be used to describe how he is feeling in the story. The words used for hate are very viscous  and aggressive, this is showing the point of view of someone who can watch from a distance and actually see what it’s doing .  Love is seen as very warm and romantic. In this monologue love is said to describe a woman by the name of Porphyria who has blonde hair and blue eyes.

Seduction is shown in Porphyria’s lover by; ‘made her smooth white shoulder bare…. murmuring how she loved me’ the narrator describes Porphyria to be seductive towards him,That moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; then he kills her using her own hair as a weapon to strangle her he thinks of her as a possession rather than a human being   gains possession of her by killing her ‘that moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good:’ no guilt is shown by killing her as the narrator insists that she didn’t feel any at all even though he’s just tackled her to the floor and strangles her with her own hair. I believe that this action shows that he is a little unhinged, then after she’s dead he looks to god to see whether its right or wrong  “And all night long we have not stirred,  And yet God has not said a word!” this shows us that he has true faith in god and will only perform an action if god approves

In these quotes he is deciding whether or not he should he should kill  Julius Caesar, this part is very similar to Porphyria’s Lover because they are in the point of deciding whether or not they should kill their companions. The only difference is that Brutus’s choice is moral were as the narrator in Porphyria’s Lover is immoral. they are both using a very articulate choice of language. Brutus, he is a warrior he loves Rome and he loves Caesar  but he decide that in order to keep loving Rome he has to perform a hateful act by killing Caesar. it was Brutus who had to make the final call because he knew Caesar and he was one of his closest friends. “there was a Brutus once that would have brook’d Th-eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easy as a King”. This quote is explaining what Brutus was, he was the ideal person to be in power of Rome. i believe Brutus was the one to decide on killing him therefore he had to take the final blow.
the language that Shakespeare has used is very straightforward in what he is trying to put across
Even though the language in Julius Caesar is considered to be pretty straightforward, reading Caesar can feel like reading a really long poem. That’s because Shakespearean drama is written in a combination of  poetry and the way we talk normally. We break all of this down in the paragraphs that follow, but here’s what you should remember about Shakespeare’s plays. The nobility and other important figures tend to speak in “blank verse,” which is formal. The commoners, tend to speak like we do, in regular old prose.
In William Blake’s A poison Tree he has explained how I believe hate is most commonly used, by talking to your friend about it and hiding it from your enemy. this would end up forming a bigger grudge towards the enemy just like it says in the poem. this is also quite relatable in Julius Caesar, just like when Brutus hid his true feelings from Caesar and ended up telling the people around him and they became his friends. but as explained in the poem instead of going to kill the enemy, the enemy does it themselves, “and it grew both day and night. Til it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, and he knew it was mine. And into my garden stole, When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning I was glad to see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree. in this part of the poem the narrator is watching his foe eat this apple from a poisonous tree he then leaves him over night and find him at the tree dead in the morning. this also shows that this foe isn’t really dangerous in any way this is shown by the narrator just watching as his “foe” eats the fruit. I think the difference between Julius Caesar and A Poison Tree is the fact that the Narrators enemy isn’t exactly an “enemy”, more a person that the Narrator just wants to kill. I believe that the real enemy in this poem is the Narrator.