Julius Caesar Essay

 

In the Play “The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar” power corrupts along the play. Different conflicts occur along the way too. I am going to tell the ways power corrupts during the play. I will also tell how all these conflicts go with story along the way.

At the beginning of Julius Caesar two characters Marullus and Flavius are talking about Julius and that he is coming to the capitol and also how he is going to be given the crown. The first place power corrupts is when Casca one of the main characters doesn’t think the crown should be given to Caesar. So Casca comes up with a bizarre idea. His plan is to kill Caesar so Casca himself can get the crown. At this point Caesar has refused the crown two times. Before he gets asked the last final time Casca gets to work.

Casca tries to persuade all the conspirators to be on his side along with Brutus Caesar’s best friend until now. Brutus got dragged in when Casca offered him money. So now he has the conspirators on his side along with Brutus. At this point everyone thinks that Caesar is a bad leader because of Casca’s speech that he told everyone to persuade them. Power corrupts here because now that Casca gave his speech all of the power is on his side.  

After the people go on Casca and Brutus’s side and kill Caesar power corrupts again. Now two other characters that are on Caesar’s side give there

speech to try to win the people back for revenge for killing him. So they give there speeches and they tell them truth on why they killed Caesar in the first place. So now in the middle of act 5 there is a war going on and this is when power corrupts the most. Casca and Brutus are running away from the power of the people.

Before they get to the city of Philippi Brutus sees the ghost of Caesar that tells him that he is waiting in Philippi. Even though they leave Cassius’s army and Antony go after them to get revenge for killing Caesar. When they get to them the war of power begins. This is the power of Julius. Now everyone is practically fighting for Caesar. The war gets brutal and people start killing themselves for sorrow.  The first one give there life is Cassius. The next to die is Titinius who is killed by Messala.  The most important death of all is the death of Brutus.  Brutus kills himself for the power of Caesar. He feels sorry for killing him so he kills himself. Another reason that could have motivated him to do this is that they were probably losing the war. So he decided to give up to the great power of the angry people.

I hope this essay has given you the idea of how power corrupts in this play. If you choose to read or have already read the play I hope you get the same idea as I do. Which is that somebody with more power can take over a lot of things like friendship. This power is happening in our everyday life. Maybe this will make you think why this happens and how you can change it. To conclude my essay I want you to think if this power didn’t occur would the world be different? That concludes my essay, and think about that question.