Question

Read the excerpt below from act 2.2 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and answer the question that follows. CAESAR: Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. What does this excerpt reveal about Caesar’s attitude toward death? Caesar thinks that the valiant bravely face death, which should not be prevented or feared. Caesar thinks that men should run and hide from death to avoid it. Caesar thinks that only cowards face death with acceptance and joy. Caesar cannot accept his death.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer to the question: What does this excerpt reveal about Caesar´s attitude towards death, would be, A: Caesar´s thinks that the valiant bravely face death, which should not be prevented, or feared.

Explanation:

"The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" is a historical and tragic play that was written by William Shakespeare around 1599. In this particular excerpt Caesar shows that strong men, brave men, are characterized because they confront death without fear, do not run away from it, but rather almost embrace it when the time comes. Whereas the cowardly always seem to run away from death because they fear it, and thus they are always running away from it, because their main characteristic is to run away from everything. The fact of never running from death, of facing it, and accepting it, once, is, according to Caesar, the definition of a brave man.