The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
In Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar is portrayed as an unlikable person and was described as physically weak. “He hath the falling sickness” ( I ii 256). vain“Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he” ( II i 44) arrogant “if thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him I spurn thee like a cur out of my way” (III i 45), and it was easy to believe that all of Rome was against him. While all of those adjectives may be accurate, most of Rome seemed to love Caesar. Many sources described Caesar as well educated, well rounded, very charming, and one of the leading political, social, and military personalities of his time. In the play Shakespeare failed to mention many of …show more content…
He served as a legal official known as a questor in the Roman province in what is now known as spain. He led many military expeditions there and became a member of the Roman consul. Due to further military success he secured a ten year post in Gual which was usually only given to people for one year (Lyons). For almost 10 years Caesar tried to bring peace between with the Gallic tribes and attempt to make Gual a Roman province. He eventually succeeded and gained respect within the Roman republic. Along with Gual he managed to succeed in conquering Alesia and Pharsalus. The battle of Pharsalus is the most significant to the play because this is Caesar’s final military success before his demise. All of these battles were part of Caesar’s Civil Wars (Andrews). These wars lasted from January 10, 49 BC – March 27, 45 BC. Almost a year after these wars officially ended Caesar was the first to be appointed Dictator for life in February of 44 BC. This is relevant to The Tragedy of Julius Caesar because on March 15, 44 BC, otherwise known as The Ides of March, Caesar was assassinated (III i 75). While he ruled for a short time he got alot done. He got rid of many corrupt governors, gave additional rights to self-governed towns, and extended many citizen privileges to people living in Roman Provinces. Along with those accomplishments Caesar had many economic successes too. He introduces fairer taxation systems, created public jobs to lower unemployment, limited number of slaves so there could be more workers, distributed land to poor, and established a law to help bankrupt people
In Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar is portrayed as an unlikable person and was described as physically weak. “He hath the falling sickness” ( I ii 256). vain“Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he” ( II i 44) arrogant “if thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him I spurn thee like a cur out of my way” (III i 45), and it was easy to believe that all of Rome was against him. While all of those adjectives may be accurate, most of Rome seemed to love Caesar. Many sources described Caesar as well educated, well rounded, very charming, and one of the leading political, social, and military personalities of his time. In the play Shakespeare failed to mention many of …show more content…
He served as a legal official known as a questor in the Roman province in what is now known as spain. He led many military expeditions there and became a member of the Roman consul. Due to further military success he secured a ten year post in Gual which was usually only given to people for one year (Lyons). For almost 10 years Caesar tried to bring peace between with the Gallic tribes and attempt to make Gual a Roman province. He eventually succeeded and gained respect within the Roman republic. Along with Gual he managed to succeed in conquering Alesia and Pharsalus. The battle of Pharsalus is the most significant to the play because this is Caesar’s final military success before his demise. All of these battles were part of Caesar’s Civil Wars (Andrews). These wars lasted from January 10, 49 BC – March 27, 45 BC. Almost a year after these wars officially ended Caesar was the first to be appointed Dictator for life in February of 44 BC. This is relevant to The Tragedy of Julius Caesar because on March 15, 44 BC, otherwise known as The Ides of March, Caesar was assassinated (III i 75). While he ruled for a short time he got alot done. He got rid of many corrupt governors, gave additional rights to self-governed towns, and extended many citizen privileges to people living in Roman Provinces. Along with those accomplishments Caesar had many economic successes too. He introduces fairer taxation systems, created public jobs to lower unemployment, limited number of slaves so there could be more workers, distributed land to poor, and established a law to help bankrupt people