Was Julius Caesar Justified

Selflessness, a noble trait to have, but when one puts everything before themselves, it will only lead to tragedy. The character Brutus in ¨The tragedy of Julius Caesar” makes the choice to murder his personal friend Caesar, the soon to be ruler of Rome, for the future of his country. This leads to Caesar's second in command, Antony, to pursue Brutus and the others involved in the murder until their death. In William Shakespeare's play ¨The tragedy of Julius Caesar” Brutus through his selflessness in acting for the better of Rome instead of himself, and putting aside personal matters for his country becomes the tragic character.

Cassius is a talented general, and does not like the fact that Caesar has become `god-like' in the Roman people's minds (see above quote Act I, Scene ii). Cassius can be seen as a

Second, In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Cassius is even more corrupt than Caesar. For instance, Cassius does what is best for him. For example, after Caesar is killed, Cassius persuades the conspirators that killing Caesar is what people will

Besides that, when they planned for the Parthian expedition, Cassius did not get any important command, although he was a skilful soldier and had great acquaintanceship of the enemy's country. Another example was Basilus who was annoyed because he had not been allowed to become a governor. They purposely censured him and promulgated calumnious reports about his arrogance after conceiting him. Besides that, Caesar was killed because he was accused of wanting to be the tyrant. In this case, Brutus, who was the descendant of "tyrant-slayers", was exploited by Cassius to assassinate Caesar. Brutus saw the murder of Caesar as a sacred duty, and a duty peculiarly and urgently incumbent upon himself. It is obvious that the conspirators all had personal motives for killing Caesar. Hence, it was wrong for the conspirators to kill Caesar without reasonable grounds.

Whereas Plutarch's version of Caesar's death goes into more detail. In this version, Caesar grabbed Casca's dagger when Casca stabbed him in the neck and said, ""˜ Casca, you villain, what are you doing?'"�(The Life of Caesar 236). Caesar was then surrounded by the conspirators and "was driven this way and that, and like a wild beast in the toils, had to suffer from the hands of each one of them"¦"�(The Life

Marc Antony, Brutus, and Cassius are all critical characters in William Shakespeare’s famous play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Due to their distinctive personalities and values, there is no trait that all of these characters share, although they do share some traits with one another. Firstly, Marc Antony and Cassius are manipulative in nature, while Brutus is not. Secondly, the root of Brutus and Cassius’ failure is their personality flaw, while Marc Antony proves strong in all the ways they prove weak. Lastly, Antony and Cassius, unlike Brutus, do not separate their private affairs from their public actions while acts only with honor and virtue and completely ignores his personal concerns.

In this situation Cassius had a conversation about killing Mark Antony as well as Caesar. This was a form of Treason. Cassius would never have said such things if he did not have the power to. Being a senator he felt he had the right to decide what was good for Rome. He not only said this for Rome, but for himself as well. If Caesar had become King, he would have been able to get ride of Cassius. This thought did not please Cassius. "Casca, you are the first to that rears your hand" (Shakespeare 3.1.30). This was another point in the story where treason was committed. It took place in the Senate House, as Caesar approached. Cassius and the other senators discussed how Casca would attack Caesar first.

Tom Cochrane once said “ Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.” In “ Julius Caesar”, Brutus plays a big role in the betrayal of caesar being part of a plan to kill Caesar. Moreover, Brutus put off that he was for the People of Rome, but the deeper the play goes the more suspicion of Brutus’s true objective comes into play. Brutus was naive in believing Cassius and his moral judgement was off. All in all, brutus betrayed Caesar.

Talking to Casca about his plan, Cassius says, “ I know where I will wear this dagger then ...that part of tyranny that I do bear I can shake off at pleasure.” (1.3.90). In this quote it tells us about Cassius’s plan of killing Caesar because he was threatened and jealous of Caesar’s power, and wanted to get rid of Caesar's power Cassius's selfish reason of killing Caesar shows us the betrayal he did to Caesar, one of his friends. Another example of a selfish betrayal from Cassius was when Cassius and Brutus were in their tents, and Brutus tells Cassius , “ I asked you for a certain amount of gold, which you wouldn't give me.” ( 4.3.73-74).

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one must read the text closely to track the shifting motivations and loyalties of each character as the play progresses. An important factor that must be kept in mind while reading is the degree of loyalty, in other words, the degree to which characters act out of a motivation to help others. Throughout the play, each character's current degree of loyalty to others is clearly exhibited by words or behavior – this holds true for the characters of Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Portia, and Calpurnia. The focus on loyalty is critical because before the play ends an even-handed justice is meted out to a number of people who fail to live up to an expected standard of

Michael Ende once said, “When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” This quote describes Cassius down to a T. Once people shared their susceptible beliefs, they were able to be molded like putty to his liking. He is a liar, but an excellent one at that; he always knows how to use half-truths to get him exactly what he wants. In this case, he wants to be a person of a higher ranking. He is jealous that Caesar had more power, and his envy leads him to manipulate people in order to get what Caesar has. Manipulation is his strength and no one else has the savvy for deception quite like he does. It leads him to a tragic end, but not before he is able to take down others with his manipulative attribute. The play begins with Cassius manipulating Brutus to join the conspiracy, in which he is conspiring to kill Caesar, and ends with him dying in order to right his wrongs. Everything in between is manipulation after manipulation. Whether he is convincing himself of one thing, or persuading someone else of another, Cassius digs his own grave from the start. He convinces himself that he is nothing, and Caesar is everything, but he wants their names to have equal value. Cassius has every reason to kill him, and every plan laid out perfectly. What he does not count on are the repercussions of his actions. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Cassius’s manipulative trait is his tragic flaw that eventually leads to his downfall, because his jealousy motivates him to manipulate.

The killers assassinated Caesar without clear justification and did it based on their own assumptions of him. Cassius says, “Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed That he is grown so great? Age, thous art shame! Rome thous hast last the breed of noble bloods!”(Act I, scii, 150-153). Cassius is asking what is so great about Caesar without saying what isn’t great about him. One of Caesar’s good friends, Brutus, claims he

While often when a character is described as honorable and honest these seem to be very positive attributes of the character, to much of anything is never good. This is shown in the tradgety of Julius Caesar in the fact that these two traits are one if the main characters’, brutus, flaws. These traits are considered brutus’s trajic flaws in that they lead to his demise. Time and time again through out the play brutus’s actions are based soley on his need to remain honorable and honest in the eyes of all. Many of these acrions end up hurting him beacause brutus was only thinking of his image and not of the possible concequences that could occur. An example of this in the play would be in act 2 when brutus joins the conspirators against Caesar soley because he believed the people of rome needed and wanted him

Caius Cassius plays one of the most important roles in William Shakespeare’s play, “Julius Caesar”, which is centred round the assassination of the Roman dictator. The driving force behind the conspiracy is Cassius though there are others who are unhappy with the state of affairs under the prevailing system. Yet, they do not take an active part in the design to get rid of powerful Caesar. So, it is not incorrect to state that the chief protagonist of the assassination plot is no one but Caius Cassius.

Caesar could have left her but stayed because he loved Calpurnia unconditionally. Honour was also essential because, Cassius and Brutus were named honourable but Mark Anthony proved to be honourable when he revealed the true motives of the conspirators which were to kill Caesar for personal satisfaction instead of the country’s greater good. Betrayal was a key factor in the story, Cassius felt betrayed by Caesar himself because he saved his life at sea and Cassius feels that Caesar owes him a debt of gratitude because it wasn’t for his brave act Caesar wouldn’t have lived to see his victory also Caesar was betrayed by his fellow men when they turned on him and eventually killed him. Patriotism was also a factor because Brutus always had a vision for Rome and he would do anything to protect his country, even if takes the heartache of killing Caesar. Selfishness was a serious issue in this tale because Cassius was so wrapped up in his own agenda that he would do anything to get his vindication on Caesar if it meant manipulation. Selflessness was an attribute in this story by Caesar risking his life and limb to free the Roman citizens against