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Greed In Julius Caesar

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Power can be a beautiful thing, but in some cases with power comes greed, and abusing powers can lead to tragedies. That is exactly what happened to the great leader Julius Caesar. There are many obstacles to overcome in this tragedy, but with every action there is a certain reaction and sometimes you have to do what’s best for everyone and deal with the reaction to save the good of Rome.

Julius Caesar was a very smart manipulator and ruled off propaganda in Rome(“Julius Caesar” 1). Caesar was born into a wealthy family with modest means and relatively undistinguished in political and military accomplishments (“Julius Caesar” 1). Caesar grew up with a good education, and he was a tag along with Marc Antony(“Julius Caesar” 1). Caesar …show more content…

When he became famous and rewarded for taking over people’s land and earning money from its people because to have strong passionate hate towards him. People began to plot the assassination of Julius Caesar to help keep the people of Rome from creating a power hungry monster. The night before the Ides of March a conspiracy meeting was held at Brutus’s house. Some thought to take out Caesar and Antony, but soon realized Antony is nothing without Caesar. On March 15th, 44 B.C. The Conspirators go up to Caesar and get down on their knees, all except Brutus, Caesar was offended at the disrespect from Brutus. Brutus faced a battle between friendship and doing the right thing, Brutus loved Caesar, but he had to stop Caesar and save Rome, so the Conspirators attacked and Caesar was stabbed to death by Marcus Brutus, Caius Cassius, Caius Ligarius, and Casca at the Theatre of Pompey. Many believe that Caesar was close to becoming crowned king and apparently there was some jealousy in the air because Caesar got stabbed for …show more content…

Shakespeare is most well known for his famous love story titled Romeo & Juliet, but he was also known for Julius Caesar a man who let greed get to him. One thing many love about Shakespeare is that he was good at expressing his thoughts and feelings in his plays. Shakespeare grew up around his family who were also play writers, that’s how he got his ambitions to write over a hundred plays. Shakespeare fell in love with writing, he started putting his writing career before himself and even his family. Shakespeare is known for the Globe Theatre, a place which changed history for the better, The Globe Theatre brought the rich and the peasants, also known as groundlings, together. They could come to enjoy a nice comedy if the white flag was up, a history if the red flag was up, and a tragedy if the black flag was

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