Elizabethans without the burden of our modern created Shakespeare. Decolonization is a wave which will recede and like the Sphinx 5,000 years from now strange beings strive to translate from foreign fugitive thought. Shakespeare who in Julius Caesar has Cassius speak. Brutus
Cassius, a Roman nobleman, uttered this phrase when he was talking to his friend, Brutus, in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. The phrase goes, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III, L. 140-141). He is, in fact, trying to persuade Brutus to stop Caesar from becoming a monarch — an act he thinks is in the best interest of the country. He is arguing that it is not fate, but their weak position, that is exploiting them to act against their will. However, history does not support the credibility of this persuasive sentence as spoken by him.