Who Is Julius Caesar A Tragic Hero

Julius Caesar mirrors the lives of a broad base of tragic heroes, much like Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon Bonaparte. In addition to fighting or helping the wars their countries were involved in, all of them were assassinated or pushed out of there society because of their ideas. Julius Caesar is very much like Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon on how he ran his government. Julius Caesar tired to bring his government out of its economic downfall. He did what he thought was right which was suppressing the Republic that he knew would vote against him. He turned his attention to trying to become a dictator so he could make the country stronger while it was on its peak after many victories during Caesars conquest. However his close friends and the

Julius Caesar was a man with lots of power; he thought he was protected by his power as shown in the play Julius Caesar. His close friends and Senate realized that his power was going to his head and decided to try to take him down and install the government they wanted. He was eventually killed where he felt that he was safe in the Senate House by the senate with his famous last lines being “Et tu Brute” which means “and you Brute” Brute was his closest friend at the time. Lincoln was in the same situation in how he was not expecting what was going happen to him. He was at the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. when John Wilkes Booth snuck in the Presidential box and shot Lincoln in the back of the head. Before any of this, Booth had been planning to kidnap him, but when Lincoln didn’t show up to the location Booths group thought he would be. They turned to the assassination. Booth went to the closest exit and jumped out on to the stage and yelled Virginia state motto “Sic simper tyrannis” which means “Thus ever to tyrants”. Which means death to tyrants. Some men believed that he was a tyrant like Caesar that he would end up with to much power. (Abraham Lincoln Assassination) Bonaparte had to much power after his massive victories in his conquest. Then he had a massive defeat in the War of 1812. He returned from war to be exiled which after the fact he saw his country in turmoil, he came

Caesar fought in many wars but the closest in history to his assassination was the war against Pompey, where he invaded into Italy and rushed their forces into Macedonia. He then changed his mind on Macedonia and attacked Spain and won. Then he came back to Macedonia were he drew Pompey out to win in the final battle against him, in the Battle of Pharsalus. Abraham Lincoln didn’t have to do much with the violence in the Civil War but made many speeches and decided many decisions for the war to win the war like electing General Ulysses S. Grant to have overall command of the military. With this man at power he won the war. (Abraham Lincoln Civil