Assassination of Julius Caesar

Marcus Brutus lived his life in constant debt to Caesar, but one day he realized Caesar might be doing more harm than good. Shakespeare depicts Brutus as a completely noble Roman in the play Julius Caesar, and this is true on some level. Brutus was very honest and dutiful concerning large-scale affairs, such as the fate of Rome. However, he was also very stubborn and spent a lot of time focused on petty matters (The Gale Group). Shakespeare chose to ignore this dark side of Brutus and only…

The father of revolution is not always the man responsible for the outcome. This idea is evident in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. While the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar; the profound leader of Ancient Rome, was orchestrated by Cassius; a highly regarded senator in Rome, he is certainly not the most responsible for the tragedy of the play. This title falls instead to Brutus; a young politician and Cassius’s brother in-law, whose hubris; like that of Odysseus, resulted…

finalize themselves as a leader. In William Shakespeare’s fateful play Julius Caesar, a group of jealous conspirators assassinate a man quickly rising to power in Rome. Julius Caesar, a honorable general, faces hardship as many in Rome see his rising to the throne as a dangerous threat for the fate of their country. The death of Ernst Rohm in Germany, which leads to Hitler’s rise in power can be related to the assassination of Julius Caesar because of their ambition and the jealousy of others…

Change Agent? A great example of a Change Agent is Julius Caesar. A change agent is someone who makes a great impact on people and their lives and this is exactly what Caesar did. He made a number changes, and these changes were so capacious that they stood with the people of Rome. Julius managed to do more than he could imagine as a leader. He changed Rome in a historic ways and made Rome a better place. Even with everything that was going on while Caesar had power, he always was thinking of…

noticed the differences between two speeches by listening to how each persuades the audience with their words? In the tragedy Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar gets stabbed in the back by the conspirators and dies. After his death, both Brutus and Antony give a speech to the people of Rome, expressing their logic and emotion behind Caesar’s assassination. Antony’s use of logical and emotional appeals swayed the Romans and proved his speech more effective than Brutus’s.…

Julius Caesar, the “dictator for life” of the Roman Empire, was murdered on March 15th 44BC, in the Pompey’s Theatre by his very own senators, during one of their meetings. Julius was planning on leaving Rome to fight in the war on March 18th. He had planned to have some of the most loyal members in the army to rule the empire while he was gone, and Cassius and his brother-in-law Marcus were both very angry to take orders form Caesar’s inferior followers. Unfortunately, Caesar would’ve still…

1 Annotated Bibliography: Julius CaesarFlaw/error in JudgementJulius Caesar. (2015, March 16). Retrieved May 18, 2018, from https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ancient-rome/julius-caesar/From this article I gathered Caesar made a bad decision that would hurt himself later. When Caesar returned to Rome as a dictator, he allowed the Senate to continue working. That Senate and Caesar where enemies, which was his first mistake. Although he fired the disloyal senators and replaced them with men he…

offered the crown to Caesar, he thought he was helping Caesar, and giving him what he wanted, and it ultimately led to Caesar’s death. Also, when Brutus was planning the assassination of Caesar, he was doing it for the good of Rome, but that plan ended with Rome obtaining a dictator. Finally, when Titinius left Cassius, he thought he was helping him, but Cassius committed suicide. First, when Antony offered the crown to Caesar, he thought he was doing Caesar a favor. He knew Caesar wanted the…

In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespare, Brutus displays leadership qualities throughout. Brutus is persuaded by Cassius, the leader of the conspirators against Julius Caesar, to participate in the assassination of Caesar, his best friend. Brutus is faced with the task of deciding to put his relationship with Caesar over the better of Rome. Brutus selflessly makes the decision to participate in the assassination of Caesar because of his potential to become too powerful. Brutus is an…

Based on true events of Roman history, Julius Caesar is a historical tragedy written by William Shakespeare that effectively resonates the political turmoil and disunity once faced in Rome into the early 1600’s England. As one of the most notable lines from the play, “Beware the Ides of March” sparks the death of a Roman institution, (I.ii.19). While both the soothsayer and Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, insist on Caesar not attending the Senate on that day, Caesar stands firm on his presence in…