Is Julius Caesar A Hero Or A Villain

In Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, a man declines the role of king, some of his friends believe that he will become king and be a bad leader, so they devise a way to make sure this doesn’t happen. The outcome of this is overall chaos. Throughout all of this one can learn that a villain can actually be a hero.

The first way that we see evidence that a villain can be a hero is Caesar’s nobleness. Julius Caesar was stripped of his wealth as a child and was forced to flee his home under the rule of Sulla. Although Sulla later pardoned Caesar that is not the point. Before Caesar was killed he wrote out his will. After his death his will was read aloud by Mark Antony. Antony read that “I leave to every Roman citizen, every individual man, seventy-five drachmas. (A drachmas was a silver coin of monetary value that was used in the time of Ancient Greece) The fact that Caesar left his wealth to his people

At one time Brutus was one of Caesar’s closest friends, but over time Brutus saw that Caesar did not side with the elitists, but rather took the side of the common folk. I believe this angered Brutus because he believed the King should side the Elitists, instead of wanting to help the common folks. Brutus’s anger evolved into jealousy and Cassius helped convince him that he should seize the crown for himself, by forming a plan with his friend Cassius to assemble other members to their cause, and to finally assassinate Caesar. Some believe that Caesar was aware that he was unpopular the upper classes of Rome, but he continued his ways because he believed it was the noble thing to instead of “bowing down” to the elite citizens. Julius Caesar was most likely aware that the upper classes were planning to betray him because when Brutus and his other co-conspirators attacked him he uttered a few last words to Brutus, “You, too,