In Julius Caesar Shakespeare demonstrates a hunger for power that everyone has and, if not kept in check, it could control your life and decisions. He shows the scene that repeats in history since humans existed as quoted by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
As a ruler julius caesar was a great man but as a man he was an absolute ruler. He is not one but the other in both views as a ruler the people view him as a man working toward salvation and peace, but as a man he is seen as a ruler who is striving to have all the power a god has and believes that only he should be in power and control everything. As Brutus said Caesar