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Who Is Julius Caesar Responsible

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Title William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, shows Caesar- the highly beloved, noble, almighty, trustworthy one who changed the traditional Roman republic to the Roman Empire - is responsible for his own death. The documentary Ancients Behaving Badly also gives reasons to show this responsibility. Caesar ignored signs, he was considered dangerous, and he was too proud. In the play, Caesar ignores multiple signs of the danger the future holds. Caesar ignores one of the signs when a soothsayer shouts out to Caesar “Beware the ides of March” (JC.1.2.18). The soothsayer is trying to tell Caesar that something will happen in March, but Caesar does not listen to him. He responds “he is a dreamer, let us leave him. Pass” (1.2.24).

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