Descriptive Essay On The Great Caesar

In the determination of whether Julius Caesar was an intelligent, political hero or an egocentric, dictating villain, it is important to look at all of the facts. Born in 100 B.C.E. and assassinated in 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was legendary. He along Pompey, and Crassus created the first unofficial Triumvirate which was negotiated to appease both the Roman citizens and the power hungry rivals. Still, this agreement would not last long. After Pompey’s wife, Julia Caesar and daughter of Caesar’s daughter given to Pompey to establish the Trimvirate, dies in childbirth, civil war breaks out as Caesar leads his army against Rome. He fights until Pompey is murdered in Egypt. As Rome is “shattered,” Julius Caesar one person should rule. He

     In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare shows how friends often betray each other. Julius Caesar is about to be crowned king of Rome, when some well-known Romans decide that it is not a good idea for this to happen. They form a conspiracy and kill Caesar. Brutus, an honorable Roman and a very good friend of Caesar’s, betrays Caesar by killing him for the good of Rome. Antony, Caesar’s best friend and another honorable Roman, betrays Brutus by turning against the conspirators. Cassius, a respected Roman, and Brutus betray each other by arguing and destroying their friendship. All this betraying lead to many deaths in the play.

Caesar ends up being murdered after ignoring all of the warnings. Caesar ignores all of the warnings about not coming to the Senate House on March 15th. It ends up being the day he gets brutally murdered. Stabbed to death by people he thought to be his friends. The conspirators are Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Trebonius, Ligarius, Decius, Metellus, and Cinna. Julius Caesar sits in his chair like usual and is approached by none other than one of the conspirators Metellus and he says “Is there no voice more worthy than my own, To sound more sweetly in great Caesar’s ear For the repealing of my banished brother?” (937). While Metellus is asking this all of the other conspirators are getting closer surrounding Caesar and joining in, in the asking for Publius Cimber to return. The conspirators know that this is an outrageous thing to ask of Caesar and are just using it as a guise to get closer to Caesar

I notice something is reflecting the light from my phone, but I can't tell. I get a closer look and I realize it's a knife.Panic and Adrenaline fill my veins and scream for me to run or do something. But I don't move hoping he'll go away, his eyes flicker to me."I'll make you a balloon animal! I'll make it out of your skin." He says with a flat,dead tone with a haunting, bone chilling laugh that echoed through the room, and starts to raise the knife.

I would just like to pass through your town.” I smiled at them. All but one villager ran away. This one who stayed was a tall woman who looked very strong as she walked towards me. She looked very confused. “I’m not going to hurt anyone, I’m just on a walk and need to get through the town.” She still looked puzzled. “H-E-L-L-O. D-O Y-O-U S-P-E-A-K- E-N-G-L-I-S-H?” She just kept staring with her eyebrows pulled together. Ugh what is this lady’s problem? “Okay, I’m just gonna go through now, thank you very much.” As I started to get up she jumped back. And then she pulled something out from behind her. She inched closer and closer to my foot and then I felt a sharp pain in my middle toe. That little witch just put a sword through my toe! I roared with pain and went to the tallest building I could find. I burst through the doors looking for something to ease the pain and heard more screams as a dozen people ran outside. Ah! Some water, that’ll be perfect for my foot. I filled a bucket and sat down on the floor with a thud. Very gently I pulled out the sword and then I stuck my foot in the water. I looked around and realized I was in a mead hall, a very big mead hall. The pain from my foot started to make me feel woozy so I decided to take a nap.

The driving forces in the play Julius Caesar are the characters Marcus Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Marc Antony. Julius Caesar is the center of the ordeal of leadership in Rome when the play begins. When Caesar returns to Rome he is looked upon by the fickle plebeians as a glorious and triumphant hero. The authority of his heroism is questioned when the honorable Marcus Brutus speaks to the townspeople during Caesar’s funeral. Brutus proves to be the better leader for Rome rather than Caesar or Antony. Brutus is wiser and more honorable than the other Romans. He was the only one truly looking out for the good of Rome and not himself.

Throughout the play, powerful, old, and wise words lead to the plot and theme of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. A leader that wants power at no cost will hide bad intentions in beautiful words. Words must not be trusted completely, for they lead to

to break free, Antony lost the battle but he and Cleopatra managed to flee the battle early

Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength he created a strong empire. What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire? What events led up to the making of the first triumvirate? How did he rise over the other two in the triumvirate and why did he choose to take over? What happened during his reign as dictator of Rome? What events led up to the assassination of Caesar? What happened after he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. Julius Caesar was a

Julius Caesar is and was one of the most influential people in history. He created laws, stuck wars, and developed new strategies for leadership and battles. "Caesar is widely considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, as well as a brilliant politician and one of the ancient world's strongest leaders (Julius Caesar pg.1)." He transformed the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire and he extended his land all the way through Gaul to The Atlantic Ocean, as well as fighting a civil war and being proclaimed as dictator for life.

My sword swings through air singing with delight as it cuts through the air followed by flesh and I watch in a time broken world as it sinks inch by inch. My vision fades and I am alone

Although William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar provides a largely accurate and incredibly detailed record of the assassination of its namesake, the play is regarded not as one of the Bard’s histories, but as one of his greatest tragedies. Shakespeare’s poignant lyrical interpretation of the fall of Julius Caesar is defined without a doubt as a tragedy by the sorrowful nature of the development, execution, and aftermath of Marcus Brutus’ betrayal of Julius Caesar.

     'I came, I saw, I conquered.' These are the words of the man who changed the history of the world. This paper will show how no other man in the history of the world represented military and political power better than Julius Caesar. He became a legend for his military exploits and great leadership ability.

Although Calpurnia did not fully take into account Caesar’s pride, she still created a potent argument and ended with an appeal to Caesar’s self-image. Asking Caesar to blame his absence on her, Calpurnia begged, “call it my fear that keeps you in the house and not your own”, drawing away attention from what others in the Capitol might think of Caesar’s leave, which happened to be one of the first problems Decius mentioned when dissecting the “flaws” in Calpurnia’s argument.

On Wednesday 10th September 2014, I witnessed the Oratory Foundation’s presentation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The production was held at Naparima bowl at San Fernando. It began promptly at 9:30 am. This tale closely follows the rise to province and the ultimate demise of Roman icon and revolutionary politician Julius Caesar. The themes shown in this story are love, honour, betrayal, patriotism, selfishness and selflessness. This enticing tale also has its fair share of action such as murder, suicide, vengeance and conspiracy.