However, none of this would matter if it was all for the common good of Rome and to save the republic, except there wasn’t a true republic to save. Most of the senators were in their position of power because of their families and their wealth. Consequently some of the senators looked down upon the citizens such as when Casca said “if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would’ve forgiven him”(I,ii,269-270) to criticize the people of Rome. Their similar backgrounds likely meant that they rarely had opposing viewpoints. The Roman people did not have the same background as the senators and, the citizens’ views were rarely properly represented by these senators. The fact that the republic did not entirely work like a republic means that a
