[Shalvi seeks to detennine whether Shakepeare condemns or condones Caesar's assasination. The critic argues that while Shakespeare makes it evident that Brutus's fears of Caesar's tyranny arejustified, he nonetheless presents the murder as an immoral act that must be avenged. In Shalvi's opinion, Brutus's sole motivefor participating in the plot against Caesar is to safeguard the liberty of the Roman citizens; ironically, however, it is this noble purpose that causes his political ineptitude and contributes to thefailure of the conpiracy. Despite the play's insistence on the idea that "blood will have blood, " the critic argues, Julius Caesar is more than a revenge tragedy,for it dramatizes the fdJect if Caesar's assassination not just on the murderers, but also on the Roman populace, who, in another example if irony, will suffer greater injustice under the rule of.....
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