The Flaws Of Caesar : The Rise Of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was and still is considered to be one of the greatest military generals in history. His combination of leadership skills, military genius, and speaking ability propelled him to the forefront of Roman society. Born on June 12/13 100 B.C., Caesar was born into an ancient aristocratic family. Around the age of 16 after his father had died, Caesar had joined the military. It was apparent from this time onward that Caesar was especially gifted in the arts of strategy and warfare. By the age of 30 Caesar had begun making political strides in his perpetual quest for glory and prominence. During this time he would work closely with his friend and future mortal enemy, Pompey. In the next ten years, Caesar would become governor of Spain and ascend to the position of consul. His partnership with Marcus Licinius Crassus further increased Caesar’s rise to power, as Crassus himself was a powerful politician and general, who was arguably the wealthiest man in all of Rome. Along with Pompey, the three men formed what came to be known as the First Triumvirate. Although Caesar was aligned with Pompey, he never ceased to find ways outmaneuver him, qualities that would eventually precipitate Rome’s civil war. Continuing his military conquests, Caesar would become the governor of Gaul, which is now modern day Belgium and France. After ascending to this position, he’d engage in a near decade-long conquest of Gaul known as the Gallic War. Probably his most successful battle and

Out of the many flaws that Julius Caesar had, one of the largest flaws that he had was his pride and his ambition. Having both of these attributes led to him being power hungry as well. For the most part Shakespeare’s play focuses on the idea of Julius being ‘power hungry’ for immortality. Despite his several flaws he is still able to be considered a hero for several different reasons. For one, he recognized his flaw, he was aware of what was thought of him because he saw it that way himself.

Julius Caesar was a great leader of Rome. Not only did he lead a very strong army, but his people also loved him. The debate is always should he have been killed or should he have lived and lead us to more victories.

Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BCE (Fuller 56) in a world of political uncertainty. During that time, Lucius Cornelius Sulla was the political head of Rome. Caesar’s rise to power started at the age of 16, when he was elected by his uncle Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna, to the position of Priest of Jupiter (Fuller 56). Two years later, Caesar married Lucius Cinna’s daughter, Cornelia. Sulla marched back to Rome, from being in the east, to settle a civil war. During his return, Sulla made several changes that increased his political power and satisfied the people, but when Sulla returned to Rome, he insisted that Caesar divorce his wife because her father had been involved in the civil war. This was something that Caesar was not going to comply with, which enraged Sulla. Since Caesar refused to obey Sulla’s orders to divorce his wife, Sulla stripped Caesar of his priesthood, as well as all his wealth and property. Unbeknownst to Sulla, his punishments to Caesar would eventually help spark a desire in Caesar, to become a powerful dictator. Caesar did not feel safe under these circumstances, so he decided to leave Rome and go into hiding. When Caesar was tracked down and captured, Caesar paid for his freedom, and his mother pleaded with Sulla to allow his return to Rome (Fuller 56). Caesar returned to Rome, staying away from any involvement in any of the civil wars, however; he watched Sulla and learned that he could

Julius Caesar was an important man in history for many reasons. On July 12, 100 BCE, he was born in Rome. At the age of 26, or in the year 74 BCE, he established an army to fight the king of Pontus. His army won. A few years later in 69 or 68 BCE, he was elected as a quaestor. This is not one of the most advance position in politics. He then became a governor of the Roman province of Spain between 61-60 BCE. One year later, in 59 BCE, he became consul, which is pretty important. Later, he left Rome for Gaul. He led the Gaul army between 58 BCE and 49 BCE. He then returned to Rome and became dictator in 47 BCE (for 10 years) and then elected for life in 44 BCE. He then, on March 15, 44 BCE, gets himself killed by Brutus. This means that he

Caesar had a very important role to play for Rome. There was lots of war going on in the surrounding countries.

Centuries after the murder of a rising dictator, students, historians, and linguists alike continue to study the death of Julius Caesar as immortalized by William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. In this tragedy, Shakespeare examines the days preceding Caesar’s downfall, and the aftermath that ensues. The tragedy describes Marcus Brutus, a character with noble and honorable intentions, influenced by Cassius to support a conspiracy against an ambitious politician, Julius Caesar. Brutus, Cassius, and other conspirators succeed in ending Caesar’s life, but are forced to flee when Rome turns against them. Much controversy has arisen over who is the tragic hero of the play. A tragic hero is a noble character who, despite his greatness, is led to destruction by his own fatal flaw. Although many argue Brutus is the tragic hero due to his prominent role in the play and his heroic, yet flawed, character, Shakespeare remains justified in the naming of his play. In Shakespeare’s accurately titled tragedy, Julius Caesar, rather than Brutus, remains the tragic hero of the play due to his heroic qualities, his fatal flaw, and Brutus’ ineligibility as the tragic hero.

But they didn’t achieve to keep him away from it because he finally became consul in 59 BC. All of Rome considered Caesar as a threat to the king, so they thought him to be a “tyrant”.

From the age of 27, Julius Caesar was well respected by the general public due to his military success which led to the rise in his political standing. He worked very closely with many Roman politicians with great public influence including Pompey the Great and Crassus. The public services that Caesar introduced to the Roman population gave the people confidence in his leadership thus leading to the rise of Julius Caesar’s reign in the upcoming years. He portrayed himself as a public servant to the people of Rome which was a key aspect in the rise of a Caesar’s Republic throughout Rome due to the fact that it gave the public influence in the governmental decisions. This sort of leading style was primarily the reason that allowed for Julius Caesar to gain control over Rome without taking over and having the support of the roman citizens with him. It was in 47 B.C. Caesar had began to shape the structure of the Roman Republic through the means of declaring himself as the “Dictator in Perpetuum” and by reinstating an imperial type of government rule but it still brings into question, to what extent was Caesar responsible for the onset of the Republic’s decline. Reinstating the imperial government rule does not necessarily resolve this investigations question as much as greatly support one theory of which states the cause for the onset of the Roman Republic's decline. At the age of 40, Julius Caesar was elected onto the consul due to his military success in order

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar contains many themes and topics for me to discuss. Tragic flaw is shown throughout the play. I am going to analyze Caesar's tragic flaws in detail. There are many times that Caesar's flaws appear and are recognized in the play. Caesar does not have just one big flaw he has several smaller flaws. Caesars flaw also connects with other great literary works, such as the Bible. I hope to convey and describe the tragic flaws Caesar has.

The Roman Republic ended with the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. A republic is a state in which power is held by the people and their elected representatives. The Republic was technically not a republic because the people did not elect representatives to the Senate. The Republic was slowly falling apart before Julius came into the picture. Their armies were spread thin, generals were taking over provinces and increasing amounts of infighting, and corruption from within the Senate helped the fall of the Republic. After Julius Caesar appeared and had himself elected into the Senate he proclaimed to end the civil wars and bring back law and order. The rest of the Senate feared him and assassinated him in public. Their actions sparked a war that would start the Roman Empire.

Julius Caesar was supposed to serve as a priest but was later kidnapped, he was returned safely, but decided to join the military. He had a secret to hide, which was epileptic. During his time in the military, he rose quickly with ranks, because of his personality and skills. He later conquered France, he was also tired of Senate, the Senate did not provide supplies or had even cared for the army. Caesar sets out to threaten the Senate with his army because of the Senate's lack of consideration. The Senate later made him senate leader, Caesar then married the co-leader to his daughter Julia. The co-leader got scared of being killed by Caesar and ran to Egypt where he eventually

William Shakespeare has been dead for centuries yet he still captures the world with his unique writing style and beautiful words. People don’t understand half the stuff he says but they still manage to learn an important lesson about the world after they read one of his works. Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar to teach us about being human and the flaws that come with it. Caesar, Brutus, and Cassius hold powerful positions in Rome. Although they seem mighty and strong to the public, they, like any human being, have their flaws. However, their flaws lead them to make poor and rash decisions that result in bad consequences.

Furthermore the people also saw that he was spending money on them and their community needs to make their community a better place. Meanwhile the people also had celebrations for every single victories. I can also recall being to some of them they were very good celebrations. Secondly Julius Caesar was a very successful military commander because he only

The first thing that Caesar has done in his lifetime was that he was an amazing military leader. One of the battles Caesar fought for was the Battle of Gaul, and in this one battle our leader that some want to kill fought for nine years. One soldier once told me that, “During his nine years he only lost two battles in which he personally