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Julius Caesar Conflicting Perspectives

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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. Now even day-to-day arguments could have been due to differing viewpoints, or a result of not fully comprehending the opposing side’s perspectives. Debaters, …show more content…

Certain opinions of Caesar by Romans were that he was a benevolent leader, generous and forgiving, who marched Rome to victory, led a glorious battle, was the reason for their success and was the greatest leader of all time. The ironic thing is that; Romans living during the same time (during Caesar's’ reign) has said quite the opposite, stating that he was a ruthless, bloodthirsty tyrant who was selfish and persistently held grudges that would only be satisfied if the victim was slaughtered. This opinion was also, unsurprisingly, shared by the Gauls a reason for this being that propaganda and other peoples influences could have swayed people to either support or despise this figurehead that changed the course of history for certain countries forever, whether it is for better or worse really depends on what your perspective

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