Examples Of Betrayal In Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar is a play filled with death and betrayal. It is based on events that actually happened in the ancient Rome Empire. While the play is about one of the most powerful empires of the ancient world, it is specifically about the time when one of the greatest people of the Roman empire was killed. All of the people who died in the story, died for a reason and there was a purpose for each death.

The first person to die in the play just so happens to be its namesake, Julius Caesar. He was a hero of the Roman Empire and a generous, kind-hearted man. Yet, he is murdered by his friends and fellow senators. When his life was snuffed out, the conspirators tried to justify their actions by saying they were doing it for the well-being of Rome, when all but one lied about that and where doing it for their own benefit. They said that Caesar was ambitious and craved more power than one man should hold. He was claimed to have wanted to be king of Rome, as Brutus said in Act three, scene two, and line twenty-three and twenty-four. However, as Mark Antony said in his speech in Act three, scene two, lines 94 through 96, “You all did see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly

Cassius wasn’t murdered but he did commit suicide with the help of his servant, Pindarus. He killed himself because he thought his best friend was captured and he called himself a coward because he was still alive. He gave Pindarus his sword and had Pindarus stab him with the very same sword that killed Caesar. His friend was not captured as he thought he was, because the capturers were actually allies that Pindarus had mistaken for enemies. If Cassius had just waited for a few minutes he would have know that they were not enemies. Cassius would have never needed to kill himself if his own greed, desire, and desire for power had not lead him to kill Caesar in the first