Roman Tribune In Julius Caesar

Back in the day a roman tribune was used to keep the peace.They defended the rights of the people when they couldn’t speak for themselves.It’s a person of a higher status that can communicate what the people want. Just like everything else there are always two sides, the good and the bad and the rich and the poor. The poor people were not able to get what they wanted and what they thought was right.The rich people even though they had stability they didn’t have the right to vote and were abstained from how they wanted to spend their own money since most of it went to the taxes.Soon they had to find a solution to this since riots began to happen due to the lack of action.A tribune it’s one and only job was to protect the people as one from unfair …show more content…
Well for many reasons because in the roman era a lot of unjust people were in power and they never really wanted anything to interfere with their works and money. In this case Julius Caesar was loved by the people which was really rare. But it was only the people that already had the power that didn’t like him. He was different and they saw that which made them fear the unknown.They thought that if he came into power they would lose more than they were going to receive. He greatly helped in making the roman empire powerful again. Before his rise slavery was commonly used and slaves would fight back in violent ways causing a lot of bloodshed. The people were being oppressed and needed someone to hear them out and change things for the better.When he came around he seemed to be the answer to their …show more content…
That’s what the people saw in him that others didn’t he fought for a cause he didn’t want to be pushed around and stepped on. That’s the type of security the people wanted a person that will fight head on and not be afraid.The tribunes of rome at this time were Flavius and Marullus. They tried to keep everything in order from street fights to why people missed work. Although they weren’t always on Julius side they weren’t against him either they were just afraid of uproar he would cause. All they wanted was for Julius to realize his actions and for him to not be so high up in his horse that he couldn’t come back down because then more people would rise up against him. Once the disorders starts they felt like the world was out of control and was at it’s most dangerous peak. The people that caused this are the lower classes because of Julius’s triumph. He overthrew the government and now held all the power. Too much power is bad as we later find out he is killed by his own people. If he let the tribunes do their job and not interfered with them he would have died from old age and not wounds made by the people closest to him. So to this story tribunes have a lot to do with the play because it’s what kept the peace and what would have kept Julius Caesar