Wednesday, September 24, 2008

song 62 : Julius Caesar = Ancient porn?

i found this article today in wikipedia.
Twisted is what i call it! Its so wrong! LOL
Anyhow, you can have a look at it and judge it yourself. And i wonder what will happen if we write this is SPM??? HAHHAHA

"Gender critics argue that the bonds between the men in Julius Caesar appears to exceed mere friendship, or homosociality, and cross the line into homosexuality. Some critics, such as Barbara Parker even argue that homosexual love among Roman men is an implicit theme in the play. According to this argument, Brutus and the conspirators kill Caesar for the same reasons that Brutus and Cassius argue at the end of the play: admiration has turned to desire for sexual domination.[11] This is based on the idea that, in Shakespeare's day, in an England ruled by Protestantism, Catholic Rome was often viewed as the "Whore of Babylon". Many church leaders in Rome were rumored to have practiced sodomy, and the area was frequently alluded to in England as being full of homosexuals.[12] Thus, where Brutus says: "But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead / And we a govern'd by our mothers' spirits", Gender critics see Brutus expressing a homosexual femininity. Caesar, also said to be feminine, wishes only for the company of men, and the women around him are sidelined. Men engage in more loving conversations with the men in their lives than with their own wives.[13] Parker thus portrays the relationship between Brutus and the rest of the conspirators as more like a group marriage than simply a friendship.[14]

Using phallic and yonic symbol theory, gender critics suggest that the funeral scene is both the climax of the action of the play as well as the sexual climax. Behind the rhetoric of Mark Antony, Parker sees a sexual rhetoric of seduction. Antony uses his funeral oration to seduce the crowd from Brutus back to Caesar. The wounds in Caesar's naked body, for Parker, represent vaginal orifices.[15] Antony also mentions Caesar's will several times. It signifies both his actual will as well as his sexual will (chastity) that kept him from coming at the conspirators' request.[16] In this view, the funeral represents all the stages of sex, ending with the burning of Rome representing orgasm. Antony thus re-energizes the Romans and Brutus and Cassius have to leave the city.[17]"

4 Rhapsodies:

chan leong said...

nonsense!! nonsense!!...
nothing gay is between those guys .. c'mon.... pity caesar

Anonymous said...

Hey, it is possible. Study the Greek Gods like Hercules and Zeus... U'll find that homosociality is omnipresent at that era. Besides, I have learnt in Ethic Studies that homosexuals and transverstites were once acknowledged as having magic powers...

C. Ren said...

being a transvestite to obtain magic powers? Now that's scary! haha

LeongFM said...

Trust me...Portia is really as gentle as Brutus called her...hehehe...hohoho...I know lah..=)