Best for Roman Empire or Self-Promotion? Julius Caesar, one of many glorious Roman leaders, was a well known military leader but he was also known for being a gigantic narcissist. So, was he justified in getting involved in the Gallic wars? To understand Caesar’s reasoning behind getting into the war, we must first know what happened in Gaul. Caesar was on a military high in a military low. He had just gotten noticed as a great military leader and he wanted to keep up that reputation…
meets up with the other patricians planning to kill Caesar because of his threat as a king, Brutus ironically acts like a king when he overrides the other’s ideas to enforce his own logic. When Cassius confronts him in the second scene, Brutus first reveals his concern for Julius becoming the tyrant of Rome and therefore diminishing his power as a patrician once in power. Brutus first directly admits that he does “fear the people [c]hoose Caesar for their king,” (1.2.85-86) and furthermore is…
William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar tells the true story of the murder of Caesar himself. Within the play, there are several aspects that contribute to his death. These aspects revolve around the theme of manipulation. Now manipulation can come in all shapes and sizes, whether it be the small stuff like convincing your parents you need an extra twenty dollars or casually convincing someone to kill their best friend. It could turn into some tricky business. Characters in the…
militaries that they fought had. These militaries were similar because they both played a great deal in the rise of their empires.…
The play “Julius Caesar” is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. This play that took place in Rome before the first century and was a about the death a man called Julius Caesar. Both Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus are at the “funeral” of Caesar moments after he was assassinated by a group of conspirators along with Brutus. During this Brutus attempts to make the crowd believe that murdering his friend Caesar was justified. After the people calmed down when Brutus spoke Mark Antony was seething about…
Leaders can be derived effective or ineffective from their many attributes, but it is important to note that if a leader is good they are not necessarily effective. Many leader’s, like the characters in Julius Caesar, effectiveness can be argued by the many different traits they hold. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar one character, Antony, is shown as an effective leader because of how he connects with his followers through emotional appeal. Like Antony, Mohandas Gandhi was one of the many leaders…
the Roman Empire, had many great rulers that helped make it to be one of the greatest republics in human history. One of these great rulers, by the name of Julius Caesar would become famous for the many things that he accomplished and for being one of the factors that would led to the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire. One of the interesting things about Caesar is the way he came in to power, much like another important roman figure by the name of Sulla; Caesar would use force to…
Crossing the Return Threshold, Master of the Two Worlds and Freedom to Live. The Hero Cycle is found all throughout history and literature,significant examples are found in story Oedipus the King; Achilles, who is one of the heros from the Iliad; and Julius Caesar,…
Betrayal can be viewed as different aspects in the book Julius Caesar. Being that Cassius and Brutus were once friends with Caesar makes the murdering and the whole outlook of the manipulative plan of Cassius' heart breaking to know how awful both Brutus and Cassius are. In the part of the book where it is put upon Antony and Brutus to get the citizens of Rome to believe one of them, it is clear that Antony gives a better speech with the use of ethos, logos, and pathos, and he puts his situation…
The play, Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare has many themes, but one that is recurrent is one can be easily flattered through the misconstruing of words and the use of persuasion. Cassius uses flattery upon many of the other actors to make them do what he says. Misconstruement of words is introduced in “Act I Scene I” where the cobbler uses a play on words. Shakespeare also adds another part that builds up the play in this scene that illustrates the fickleness of the people as they celebrate…