Julius Caesar Reflection

Julius Caesar, a Roman general, dictator, and leader, is considered to be one of history 's most influential and powerful rulers to this day, in which his rise to power, conquest of Europe, and controversial downfall all remain to be told during modern days. The play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, portrays the events leading up to Julius Caesar’s assassination, and how those who conspired against him banded together and plotted Caesar’s demise. Many of those conspirators assassinated Caesar due to his quick rise to absolute power, his “acts” of disrespect against the senate such as his failing to stand to receive the title of becoming a “god,” and pure jealousy and anger towards Caesar’s success and rule over the Roman empire. Caesar, an ambitious man, was able to conquer many lands and peoples for Rome through successful military campaigns in which he became one Rome’s best generals due to the amount of successful battles he had won and the amount of blood he had shed for Rome’s expansion. However, Caesar’s trait of ambitiousness would prove to be a double edged sword.

Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) was one of the most outstanding leaders in history. He was the first ruler of the Romano-Hellenic civilization and achieved his goals with great success throughout his life of 56 years. He was assassinated by the conspirators, who accused him for practicing tyranny. This essay will discuss whether it was right for the conspirators to murder Caesar and what its consequences were.

Jealousy took a role in the play when Cassius was explaining to Brutus how, in Cassius’s opinion, Caesar is not better than everybody. He gave examples on the time Caesar was swimming in a lake with Cassius and nearly drowned, getting saved by Cassius. Cassius encouraged Brutus to kill Caesar because he thought Brutus was just as good, if not better, than Caesar.. The ending of Julius Caesar is important because it shows that not everything results in how people always want it to. Brutus and Cassius both commit suicide in the end of the play. The importance in the end of the play is the ending isn’t always how you want it to be. Before Cassius and Brutus split up, Brutus was explaining to Cassius that he would never kill himself. In the end, Brutus killed himself because he didn’t want to continue without his best friend,

There have been many famous leaders in Roman history but none could match Julius Caesar[See Figure 1]. Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC in Rome and died March 15, 44 BC in Rome. Julius Caesar is best known for his military mind and how he laid the framework for the Roman Republic. One of the quotes he is famous for is "I came, I saw, I conquered." Caesar has not just influenced Rome, he also influenced the world too. The Roman Calendar was rigged to help political purposes. Caesar devised a new Calendar called the Julian Calendar to combat that manipulation[See Figure 2]. The Calendar still has an influence in Eastern Orthodox Christian countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Greece and much more. That is only one out of many

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a story of envy, downfall, dishonesty, and true loyalty. The story begins with a celebration of Julius Caesar’s return home from a victorious battle. The people of Rome are excited for Caesar’s return, as they value and respect him as a potential leader, but there are also a handful of people that express their unhappiness with all of the attention surrounding Caesar. Caius Cassius is among those handful of individuals unhappy with Caesar’s popularity. Cassius is envious of Caesar and does not understand why he has gained so much power over the people of Rome, which brings him to the conclusion that he needs to bring about the fall of Caesar. Cassius expresses the issue to his brother-in-law

Julius caesar has just come back from slaying an important man to Rome, by the name of pompey. The people of his home are out of work enjoying life as a holiday, or as a day off of work, when they should be working. With these people there are two men who seem to be questioning everyone on why they are off of work, when it is technically not their place to say so or to do so on this day.

Perspectives can be controversial, commonly used as topics for debates and in fact, used to solve certain disputes between people. First, to understand the idea of perspectives, the definition of “perspective” is the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship, basically a mental view or prospect. All these definitions, taken from the dictionary, are linked and are somewhat related the common factor being, they are all formed by certain ideas, ways of seeing the world and its problems or its occurrences in general. An example of clashing perspectives having a significant impact on all of our lives would be perhaps past wars and feuds.

Expository Essay The decisions that one man makes can determine the length of life. Rome has many people that have the characteristics to be great leaders. Antony is a manipulative man, Brutus is an honorable man, and Octavius is a quiet strength. All three men would do an excellent job in leading Rome. Antony is a manipulative man. This is shown throughout the play in several cases, but most prominently at Caesar’s funeral. “I thrice presented him a kingly crown which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?” (III, ii, 96-96). Antony is very cleaver in the way that he presents his case to the people. He uses rhetorical questioning to show the people that Caesar was in fact not ambitious.

Brandon James Grayson ENG II/4th Block October 27, 2015 ESSAY William Shakespeare’s play, “The tragedy of Julius Caesar,” is a chronicle of amity and treachery. This correlation will result in the demise and decease of Brutus, whom some suppose is truly the tragic hero. As established by Aristotle’s definition of tragic hero, Brutus epitomizes what a tragic hero truly is. Brutus, after the happening, comprehends that the reversal of his fortune is brought about by himself when he realizes how fallacious he was in partaking in the assassination of Caesar.

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar presents Rome at a time of political volatility. The first scene of the first act of the play depicts the Tribunes of the people incensed by the Plebeians love of Caesar and abandonment of Pompey. However, in a significant departure from the role the Tribunes played in Coriolanus, in which they sought to protect the freedoms and political rights of the people (2.1) , the Tribunes instead urge the Plebeians, “Run to your houses.” It is significant that the first scene of Julius Caesar presents the tribunes as such dramatically different roles than how they acted, and with what power they acted, in Coriolanus. While the Tribunes are limited to the first scene of the play, the fact that the Tribunes fail to appeal

Julius Caesar, a play written by William Shakespeare, speaks about friendship, trust, love, and betrayal. The conspirator’s believed that what they did was justifiable. One may argue that they did it for the love of their country, but did they? Some might say yes while others may disagree. This essay will talk about how the conspirator’s actions were not justifiable and how they killed Caesar out of bad intentions.

The name Julius Caesar makes people think of a lot of things. A kind and honest leader, “the unconquerable god”, leader of Rome, the man who was brutally stabbed and murdered. The name is fairly recognizable; Julius Caesar was one of Rome’s greatest leaders and also one of the world's greatest plays. In the play and in real life, he was great and kind to all citizens of Rome, either poor or rich. When Julius Caesar died, it was one of the most iconic deaths of all time and would be remembered for the ages to come. Though this begs the question, what are the differences from what happened in David White’s article, to the famous Shakespeare play? Is Caesar killed in the same manner, do they follow the same timeline, can we safely call the Shakespeare play creditable?

While Caesar’s arrogance brings victories to Rome, it also causes him to disregard obvious warnings. This is shown when Calpurnia begs him not to go to the meeting, and he initially agrees to stay home only “For thy humor,”(A2S2L59), not because he interprets his wife’s dream as a threat to his well-being. In fact he says, “Danger knows full well/ That Caesar is more dangerous than he” (A2S2L46-47) and ends up going to the meeting anyway. On the contrary, his modesty from refusing to accept the crown three times makes him likable and allows Antony to persuade the citizens to seek revenge against Cassius and Brutus. Although Caesar is arrogant at most times, his slight

The more conservative people in Rome did not like Caesar and continued to block his attempts at being re-elected to political offices (Gruen 13; “Julius Caesar“). It did not help that Pompey took the conservatives’ side on many topics, which hurt Caesar’s political campaigns even more (Gruen 13). After crossing the Rubicon river on January 10, 49 B.C., Caesar defeated Pompey and his troops, and his army forced Pompey’s to surrender (Gruen 13; “Julius Caesar“). In his attempt to go after Pompey, Caesar fled to Egypt and conquered many groups in Italy along the way(Gruen 13; “Julius Caesar“). Once in Italy, Caesar met Cleopatra and eventually, the two would

A great historical story written by William Shakespeare, takes place in Rome 44 B.C., Rome suffered from constant fighting ambitious military leaders. The people of Rome were divided into two groups. Many aspired to become the absolute ruler of Rome, Julius was the only one who seemed to achieve the goal. A group of conspirators planned to (successfully) assassinate Julius Caesar.