Conflicting perspectives provide diverse and provocative perspectives. Composers of texts repeatedly have the common goal of persuading the audience to agree or seeking to gain empathy. The composer's deliberate intention to impose an incongruous perspective through the use of a medium is represented through personalities, events and situations. In particular, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and in Franklin D. Roosevelt's infamous 1941 Four Freedoms speech, the composers' perspectives presented on historical events can be distorted, shaped, and reshaped to uniquely elicit a passionate response in the public. The subtleties in the presentation of the form demonstrate a strong authenticity of the text and provide sustained theatrical license to the composer. Roosevelt's speech was dictated in his small office on the second floor of the White House on January 1, 1941. His speech was based on the four essential human freedoms; freedom of expression, of worship, the freedom to live free from want and fear. These freedoms symbolized America's war goals and gave hope to a war-weary people because they now knew they were fighting for freedom. Accordingly, the four freedoms formed the basis of the global ethical principles found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations. Charter. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech are different text forms, but both serve the common goal of entertaining and inspiring their contextual audience. Particularly in Roosevelt's speech, he was expected to be an inspiring and strong leader because the majority of Americans believed in isolationism and the belief that the United States should continue to stay out of war. However, through the "Four Freedoms", Roosevelt dictated such a compelling perspective...... middle of paper......spectacle was one in favor of imperialism and the autocratic ruling power. However, if he had not been influenced by his times and his support for contemporary power, this perspective might have been quite different. In contrast, Roosevelt presented himself as a resistance fighter, a leader in a period of anxiety and crisis for his country. Although under pressure from the oppressive world in his context, which would certainly have shaped his views, he used his situation to form a sense of community in America and export a strong belief in resilience. Thus, the effect of context on the composer and therefore on perspective can be observed in both Roosevelt's Julius Caesar and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Therefore, both texts, while entertaining and inspiring their contextual audience, offer contradictory perspectives that bring out diverse and provocative ideas..