Who Was Julius Caesar Ambitious Essay

“That was a Man”, Marc Antony declares defying us and making people and scholars everywhere question, who was the protagonist and who was the victim in Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”. In this play two characters play a very controversial role including an assassin and the now late leader of Rome Caesar who was killed by Brutus, but is that the whole story. We will find that out using evidence gathered by me showing that, though I may not agree with Brutus, how he was the misbranded soldier who was manipulated to kill, ruining his honorable and wise status. Brutus did the act of capital murder and treason because Cassius tricks Brutus into a false sense of leadership and warped reason. For example, Cassius forges notes from people of a higher social status and places them around the city for Brutus to find as read on page 21 of the red reader, “I will this night, in several hands in at his windows throw [rocks], as if they came from several citizens.”. Also, Cassius uses his gift of gab or sly tongue to flatter Brutus into believing every …show more content…
The answer is still uncertain, Caesar could have extremely ambitious as seen by his ego on page 29, “Caesar shall fourth. The things that threatened me ne’re [never] looked but on my back; when they hall see the face of Caesar they are vanished.”, but basing how a leader could have been something instead of what he was is invalid. However, in Brutus unseeing eyes Caesar was ambitious and could bring nothing good to Rome and even attempts to explain himself in a speech on pg 47 claiming honor on himself. Caesar in reality was no more than an egotistical ruler who could have led, yet did not live long enough to lead. Brutus killed knowingly and was blind enough to bathe in Caesar’s blood as if it were holy water as read on pg 41 in an