Caesar uses a bundle of sticks to explain to Maurice how an ape alone is weak, but apes together are strong. The bundle of sticks, or fasces, was a symbol of authority in ancient Rome, the origin of Caesar's name. Caesar's charisma is also reminiscent of Benito Mussolini, who adopted the fasces as the symbol of his Italian Fascist Party. The fasces, or bundle of sticks, concept is also used in several symbols in the architecture of the U.S. White House and Capitol, and is the subject of the Aesop fable "The Bundle of Sticks", about a father demonstrating to his sons how they should work together.

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