Dictators Past and Present
As we recently passed the 100th year anniversary for WWI, we look back on famous Leaders and their abuse of Power
A s we come up to the 101st anniversary for WWI this year in July, we start to remember those great leaders and those leaders that abused their power.
We also remember the Leaders that lived before WWI. One of those would be Julius Caesar. A dictator that was born in July 100 BC. He is also a character portrayed in William Shakespeare’s famous play.
Even after this very long time after Julius Caesar there are still dictators that abuse their power. Some of these people include Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un etc. Julius Caesar can be compared to all these people in different ways.
Julius Caesar is a play by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the United Kingdom. He was an English poet, play writer, and, probably the …show more content…
He seems to have put himself on par with the Gods, in control of destiny as opposed to be controlled by it. An example of this is when he meets a soothsayer that says “beware the Ides of March” (Act 1, Scene 2). Caesar dismisses it because he is not worried because of the power he has.
An example of this in modern society would be Adolf Hitler who is an Austrian born German who came to power in 1933. He was appointed chancellor of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He had an idea of the perfect race known as the Aryan race. They were supposed to be tall with blue eyes and blonde hair. This has some controversy in it as Hitler had brown eyes and brown hair. He basically wanted to kill anyone that didn’t fit this model of perfection. Like the Jews, Handicapped, Gypsies and anyone that was helping them. In the Holocaust he killed 6,000,000 Jews.
Caesar was not as ruthless as Hitler. Although he, like Hitler believed he was superior to everyone else i.e. the
As we recently passed the 100th year anniversary for WWI, we look back on famous Leaders and their abuse of Power
A s we come up to the 101st anniversary for WWI this year in July, we start to remember those great leaders and those leaders that abused their power.
We also remember the Leaders that lived before WWI. One of those would be Julius Caesar. A dictator that was born in July 100 BC. He is also a character portrayed in William Shakespeare’s famous play.
Even after this very long time after Julius Caesar there are still dictators that abuse their power. Some of these people include Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un etc. Julius Caesar can be compared to all these people in different ways.
Julius Caesar is a play by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the United Kingdom. He was an English poet, play writer, and, probably the …show more content…
He seems to have put himself on par with the Gods, in control of destiny as opposed to be controlled by it. An example of this is when he meets a soothsayer that says “beware the Ides of March” (Act 1, Scene 2). Caesar dismisses it because he is not worried because of the power he has.
An example of this in modern society would be Adolf Hitler who is an Austrian born German who came to power in 1933. He was appointed chancellor of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He had an idea of the perfect race known as the Aryan race. They were supposed to be tall with blue eyes and blonde hair. This has some controversy in it as Hitler had brown eyes and brown hair. He basically wanted to kill anyone that didn’t fit this model of perfection. Like the Jews, Handicapped, Gypsies and anyone that was helping them. In the Holocaust he killed 6,000,000 Jews.
Caesar was not as ruthless as Hitler. Although he, like Hitler believed he was superior to everyone else i.e. the