Julius Caesar Essay

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…

Although Julius Cesar may not seem as though he is, he is the tragic hero of the play. He was noble enough to go against orders from his superiors. He had flaws of ambition and arrogance; that ultimately lead to his cataclysmic death, making Julius Caesar the tragic hero. While reading the play Julius Caesar, many people may find themselves connecting to Brutus much more than Caesar. Caesar is only in the play a short time, but his part in the play is crucial to Brutus’ fate. Julius Caesar was…

this statement Caesar would be at peace with his death. He does not live is life in fear of what can happen. Caesar believes that when it is your time to die you should not fear death. As he is dying Caesar last words are, “Et tu, Bruté?—Then fall, Caesar” (JC 3.1.77). Caesar perceives that even if his good friend Brutus wants him dead then he shall die. He finally understands how horrible he has been to the people and will take the result. Since he did not live his life in fear, Caesar did not…

A notorious Roman by the name of Julius Caesar once said, “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”(Caesar) That one spoken sentence alone can define this man’s actions in detail from his very first success, all the way to his downfall. Opinions have been thrown left and right; to and fro, as to wether or not it was justified for Caesar to bend Roman law. It is asked wether it was right or not for this legendary dictator to break the law, if it was for the…

Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln were both tremendous leaders during their time. There are several similarities between the two men. For instance, both men had military backgrounds in their younger years. Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln each made a significant impact on their countries with their political ideas and desire to help the people. The most important similarity that people think of when they remember them is that each of these great leaders was assassinated. When we think of Julius…

Julius Caesar, a former leader of Roman empire, and Abraham Lincoln, former president of the United States, are two different men, but the similarities between the two outweigh the differences. Both former leaders were not only both assassinated at the age of 65, by someone who was concerned about the power and authority they had in the United States and Rome over their people, but both also had forewarnings preceding their deaths. Abraham Lincoln and Julius Caesar are undeniably two of the…

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Caesar’s ambition to become king leads to his tragedy. The conspirators aimed to end this ambition and to ensure that the Roman Republic remained. Brutus ambition to get the Roman public to understand his logic on assassinating Julius Caesar clashes with…

Julius Caesar was a dictator that was in power in Ancient Rome that accomplished many great things. The problem was many of the things he did were for his own good and to give him glory. Cesar could’ve also been a great reformer because he got his soldiers to support him. The only thing is that he only got them to support him so they would do what he told them to and he could do whatever he wanted and they would go along with it. Thus, this makes Caesar a dictator and not a reformer. Julius…

speech and Julius Caesar's funeral. I am going to compare and contrast of what they talk about in both of their speech's. In Brutus's speech He talked about how much he loved Julius Caesar even though he did kill him, but Brutus was his friend. so he talks about his love for Julius but he talks about how he has to kill him, because he is gaining too much power of Rome. That brings up the topic of him telling the audience the reason why he killed his so called friend Julius Caesar. The…

In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the line “Et tu, Brute?” stands out as one of the most famous lines in the play. The only problem, however, is that Julius Caesar did not say that line upon being stabbed twenty-three times. Although the play Julius Caesar seems quite credible, Shakespeare has indeed embellished a few parts of it. In the play, the character of Marc Antony does not correspond to historical texts; but the assassination of Julius Caesar in essence does stand validated with…