Comparing Power In 'Julius Caesar And Mean Girls'

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall” by William Shakespeare. Both “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar '' written by Shakespeare and “Mean Girls” written by Tina Fey contain rising to power. It shows how much power one person can truly have on others. Nobody can rise to power without the help of others. Julius Caesar and Regina George have way more power over everyone they were around, and Brutus and Cady had help while they were rising to power to take down their protagonists. Oftentimes, powerful people use their power to do bad things.

Firstly, Julius Caesar had help before rising to power. Caesar used his forces to remove political rivals and conquer Gaul. Julius Caesar created an alliance with Crassus and Pompey to form the First Triumvirate.

“Many a time and oft Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The longlive day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome'' (1,1,38-43). While Regina George had help after she rose to power. Gretchen and Karen were always by Regina’s side. They all bullied people together and would talk bad about others. They would help her get back at people and would make fake compliments. They basically ran the school and everyone loved them. “One time, Regina punched me in the face. It was awesome” (Mean Girls). Julius Caesar would do things on his own while he had power. Caesar used his power to reduce Rome’s debt, expand the senate, and bring necessary governmental reforms. As for Regina George she would do things together with her friends. They made a burn book including students from the school they disliked. They started that book together to write slander about others and gossip about people that went to North Shore High School. Caesar was assassinated by senators. Caesar was tricked by the senators and they

Brutus and the senators had made a plan to kill Caesar. Even though Caesar was his friend, Brutus joins the conspiracyagainst Caesar’s life because he feels that Caesar’s death is better for Rome. Brutus did not want to allow Caesar to rise to power and turn his back onto the people of Rome. Brutus felt like Caesar was being a dictator. “Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, And kill him in a shell” (2,1,33-34) Similar to how Cady, Janice and Damian made a plan to destroy Regina. At first, Cady didn’t want to join and take down Regina as she felt that Regina seemed like a kind person. Only until she kissed her ex-boyfriend, Aaron, who was Cady’s love interest. They wanted to ruin Regina George's life like how she was ruining theirs.Their plan was to separate her from Aaron, ruin her body and turn the plastics against her. Cady went behind Regina’s back as she didn’t want Regina to continue to have this power over them. “She’s not gonna get away with this, we're gonna do something” (Mean girls). People in Rome started following Brutus after he killed Caesar. For the sake of Rome, Brutus declared that he would be willing to commit himself if the people demanded it. When Brutus said this the audience felt loved and thankful as to how much Brutus values them and their country. This is similar to how Gretchen and Karen started following Cady. After Cady’s plan had worked, Regina lost her status as