Julius Caesar Essay: Was Caesar Ambitious?

Was Caesar Ambitious? Using Mark Anthony’s funeral speech and Caesar’s own words, analyze what kind of king Caesar would have been had he lived. The play relays the tragic death of Julio Caesar. After Caesar defeated Pompey, he returns triumphant to Rome were the lower and middle class are his supporters, while the senate has grown in envy of his popularity. During the festival at Caesar’s return, Anthony offer the crown to Caesar three times and three times he refuses it. His ambitious was that of power and control. Perhaps he refused the crown to show his supporters that he did not care much about being a king. He is already the Emperor and has the Emperor of Rome he had the control of the Army. The Romans have seen that he was the best Roma have had in a long time. However, the senate on the other hand could not take the aristocracy Caesar is giving to himself, and they are afraid that he may want to be crowning king even after he …show more content…
Anthony’s eulogy is not only to put an intrigue in the mind of the people about the assassins but also to convince them of the atrocity committed to a great leader. But when focus on Caesar speech maybe he would have succeeded on being a king with a strong control over the republic of Rome and would have extended his plan of ambition at the expense of the Roman nations for his best interests. It is not certain if Caesar would have become dictator of Rome either, as it was obvious that Cassius, Brutus and Decius each one would form their own army and live in a constant civil war for the reason that each wanted ultimate power over the Senate and the political system itself. Caesar is portrait in the play, as a noble and gentle man when he is conversing with his wife, who is trying to persuade him to stay home for fear that something, will happen to him. Brutus on the contrary shows as a man thirsty for avarice and for