Caesar speaks the lines below right before he is stabbed by Casca:
"I could be well moved, if I were as you:
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there's but one in all doth hold his place..."
Please explain how this quote is ironic. What does Caesar compare himself to? How does he view others?
Thing that that is ironic about this quote is that he said basically said i would be convinced to if i were like you. And then a few lines later he said in another way begging would convince me too. So in a sense he is being very hypocritical. He compares himself to the constant northern star. The way he sees others is he thinks everyone else is beneath him and that he is some sort of God to his people. Isaac Gutierrez
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