Julius Caesar Abuse Of Power

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This illustrates the theme in the historical play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar was a man full of arrogance and he had a sense of being self-absorbed. This kind of personality lead to bad things, it eventually led to death. Caesar was a well-known man in Rome. The people of Rome didn 't care what he did. Everyone thought he was perfect. I ii 273 He was married to a woman named Calpurnia. She lived in Rome. At the beginning of the play, Caesar just had defeated Pompey. I i 53 Some of the people in Rome knew that Caesar was getting into deep trouble. Brutus had to make a big decision towards the end. Everyone wanted Brutus to kill Caesar because he was never going to change his personality. He didn 't know what he should do, he didn 't know what is best for Rome.

Caesar wanted to be worshiped. “But now everywhere statues of Caesar were being erected. What could they be for other than for worship?” Caesar wanted the people of Rome to treat him like a god. This is shown when said, “Beyond that, a low authored by Caesar was found, but not yet introduced, which would proclaim Caesar a living god.” This is an example of the war Caesar thought, power, worship, and more power.

In this play, Julius Caesar returns to Rome to find that he has the unconditional support of the Plebeians. As he gains more power, his friends worry that he will completely take over the city, and so they conspire with one another to kill him. Preceding the attack, the conspirators notice many strange occurrences in Rome, such as a “lion who looked at [them] and strutted by without bothering to attack,” a “threatening” and “destructive” storm, and a “common slave” whose “hand did flame and burn.” The conspirators perceive these bizarre circumstances as omens that they should kill Caesar and quickly carry out their plan. When the conspirators confront him, they stab him thirty-three times, and then announce his death to the citizens of Rome, expecting a positive response but receiving the opposite. Rome is plunged into violence as the plebeians attempt to find the conspirators responsible for Caesar’s death. Citizens swarm the streets of their city, killing innocent people, such as Cinna the Poet, believing that they are among the group of people responsible for killing Caesar. This violence and death represents the weak condition that Rome continues in throughout the play. Caesar’s body represents the body of Rome, and when he is wounded, the entire city feels wounded as well. The chaos that Rome undergoes after Caesar’s death is symbolic of his importance to the city. The

Caesar possessed too much power. They said he was becoming a threat to the Roman Republic,

Brutus, Cassius, Caesar, and the other Senators held the power to do things others could not. With this authority came their ability to use poor judgement. In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Julius Caesar the theme Power Corrupts is arrayed thoroughly. Murder, treason, and ethical/moral corruption were three prevalent themes that proved the overall topic of Power Corrupts.

Caesar is a very ambitious, which means he is eagerly desirous of gaining power and that he believes he can control his own fate. This quote from Caesar gives an example of Caesar being ambitious “Caesar shall forth, the things that threatened me ne’er looked but on my back when they shall see the face of Caesar, they are vanished.” Basically what Caesar is saying is that when danger sees his face it will run away and hide. This shows how Caesar thinks that he can control his own fate, but this is not the case.

In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar is seen as what the image history has portrayed him as, a fine general of Rome’s vast military but also a general of an ill mind and ignorance that is upon him. This ill mind and ignorance is derived from his power and the abuse that came with the power. His abuse of power is widely seen throughout The Tragedy of Julius Caesar as he seizes his power from the Rome senate and everyone and everything. This abuse is also summarized in Brutus’s response of Caesar’s power as he describes Caesar as a “serpent egg” and provides a forewarning of the dangers of Caesar’s power as it becomes more and more prevalent throughout the first half of the story before his death. As it is shown that the assumptions pertaining to Caesar are true; it is also developed that Caesar begins to overlook his surroundings, of which includes his beloved wife, Calphurnia.

Caesar thinks that “The gods do this in shame of cowardice./ Caesar should be a beast without a heart/ If he should stay at home today and fear./ No Caesar shall not. Danger know full well/ That Caesar is more dangerous than he./ We are two lions littered in one day,/

The thirst for absolute power has corrupted leaders since the beginning of time. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a character by the name of Julius Caesar is part of the triumvirate government that rules Rome. After one member of the government passes away, Caesar grows hungry for power and kills the remaining member. Caesar strives to take the crown and become the sole ruler of the Roman Empire. As he advances to power, a group of conspirators led by Marcus Brutus works to stop Rome from falling under Caesar’s dictatorship.

He thinks of himself as all powerful and that the Romans need him to inform them on the happenings in Rome. He informs the audience that Caesar is no good by saying: “I know he would not be a wolf / But that he sees the Romans are but sheep”(Act 1.3.105-106). By saying this, he is saying that Caesar is only acting like such a wolf because he sees that the Romans are acting like such sheep. Caesar is only powerful because the people are putting him in the position to do so.

Caesar perceives himself as being powerful and as a god. He perceives himself like this due to the battles he has won and the ego he has. This ego is something he has built up while conquering nearby lands and most greatly beating Pompeii. Though this is not his reality. Caesar is weak, deaf in one ear, and had multiple Seizures.

“Even the noblest men can be seduced by power; it has the power to kill, to distort, and to corrupt” Through this passage, Matthew Sims captures in essence how individuals often turn to betrayal and deception in order to gain their heart’s desires. This characteristic is not only present in life, but can also be seen in modern and classical literature, including the well known work of Julius Caesar. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the lust for power transcends any one individual and ultimately leads to death and corruption of not only Caesar, but also of Brutus and Cassius. The play begins with Caesar parading through the streets of Rome as he triumphs in his victory over Pompey. However, Brutus, Cassius, and many others hatch a plot to

The war between private life and public life is one of the main themes in Julius Caesar. From Brutus’s betrayal to Cassius’s devilish mind, the war between the two selves is constant and visible to the readers. The characters within The Tragedy of Julius Caesar abandon their personal or private beliefs under the watchful eyes of the Roman people. The characters neglect their private feelings and loyalties in favor of what they believe is the public good. The conflict shows the confusion between their private lives and their public lives hic just turn the character into political tyrants, this theme is illustrated within the main characters.

     Specifically, Caesar’s problem was that his arrogance made the men closest to him feel threatened, mad and jealous. Caesar acted like he was better than everyone else, and he made others feel insignificant, even though they were great and noble also. “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men /Walk under his huge legs and peep about/ To find ourselves dishonorable graves.” (I.ii.135-138) Cassius feels like he shouldn’t have to feel so small next to Caesar, and Caesar thinks he is better than everyone. Caesar talks to everyone like they are nothing compared to him, and he talks about himself as though he could never be questioned, which is basically a dictatorship. Rome was a Republic and the idea that one man could rule it as a king was a threat. Cassius points out, “When could they say (till now) that talked of Rome, that her wide walks encompassed but one man” (I.ii.154-155). This is a reference to the fact that Rome should never be a dictatorship, but a democracy. This is the point that convinces some of the men to move against him. They feel they had to do it to protect Rome. Additionally, Caesar acted so

In other words, Caesar took the name of Antichrist forcefully, and his leadership represents a spiritual fornication, a sin against God. Ultimately, affecting all the classes of society by showing that all people, social ranks aside, have the same morals and mirror the beliefs of their leader, Caesar.