Why are murellus and flavius unhappy about the celebration in Julius Caesar?

Answer 1

They are angry because Caesar's victory was not against barbarians or enemies of Rome but against Pompey and his sons, who were great Romans. It is no triumph for Rome to see the defeat of one of its greatest citizens.

Answer 2

Marullus and Flavius are angry with the common people because they are praising Ceasar BUT Marullus and Flavius at one time praised Ceasar's enemy Pompey so as it goes they were just jealous of Ceasar as most people in this play are:)

Answer 3

Gaius Epidius Marcellus and Lucius Caesetius Flavus did not hinder the celebration of Caesar's victory. The event occurred AFTER the celebration of a religious festival, the Lupercalia, not during a triumph (celebration of victory). Caesar was sitting on a golden throne on the rostra (a platform for speeches) wearing a triumphal rope. Marc Antony held out a diadem (a symbol of royalty) to him. Caesar pushed it away and the crowd applauded. The same happened a second time. Caesar then ordered the diadem to be taken to the Capitoline Hill.

AFTER the event, Marcellus and Flavius saw that a statue of Caesar had a royal diadem on it .They tore it down. Then they arrested people who had statues Caesar as king. They were followed by a crowd which approved loudly. Caesar ordered those who had been arrested to be freed because he saw his supporters threatened. He then had the two plebeian tribunes stripped of their position.

The Republic had been established some 450 years earlier with the overthrow of the last king of Rome, who was a tyrant. The Romans decided to do away with the monarchy and established a republic whose purpose was to prevent the return of tyranny. They also swore never to allow anyone to try to become a king again. In the republican culture ta king was associated with tyranny.

Answer 4

Triumphs had always been held in Rome for the defeat of foreign enemies like the Carthaginians or the Gauls. The victorious army increased the size of Rome's empire and brought back slaves and booty which enriched the state. All of this was good for Rome and deserved to be celebrated.

The celebration at the beginning of the play Julius Caesar, however, is the celebration of Caesar's victory in a civil war, a civil war which he started himself by disobeying the commands of the Senate and the legitimate consul and bringing his army from Gaul across the river Rubicon. Caesar's reason for doing so was that he was afraid that otherwise he would lose political power.

In the course of this civil war many Roman soldiers died at the hands of other Roman soldiers and many illustrious leaders, including Caesar's rival Pompey the Great, were destroyed. No slaves, booty or tribute came to Rome. No territory was won. Caesar may have won the civil war, but Rome lost.

Flavius and Marullus rightly protest this victory, and remind the citizens of whom Caesar was fighting: "Knew you not Pompey?". The scene tells us something about Caesar's great egomania and overreaching love of power and also about his enormous popularity with the common people of Rome.

Answer 5

They do not think that the defeat of Pompey is a good reason to have a party. The workmen, of course, do not care, and just want to party.

Answer 6

because caesar won the war