A world elsewhere: the journey of a “lonely dragon” from “flower of warriors” to a “boy of tears”
I call his life a journey and not a tragedy because Caius Martius is inherently doomed. He creates and lives in an ideal that is not real. The Rome that he serves is not the Rome that he believes in. if indeed it is a tragedy, it is a tragedy within and not a tragedy without. He fails to reconcile his ideas with the pragmatic life. Hypocrisy is one thing that he shuns and it is the very thing that brings about his downfall.
What are the virtues of the true Roman?
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