Honor In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar By William Shakespeare

In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, it said “Well, honor is the subject of my story I cannot tell what you and other men think of this life but, for my single self. I had as lief not be as live to be in awe of such thing as myself. I was born free as Caesar. So were you.” (Shakespeare 1. 2. 94-99). This play's main theme was betrayal because everybody was betraying each other throughout the story. At the beginning of the play, the Romans wanted to make Caesar king. Then, Cassius explains to everybody how much of a threat Caesar could be to everybody and it made everyone rethink Caesar even being alive. Lastly, everybody ended up turning on each other and Caesar ended up dead with many others. Caesar was betrayed by all of his friends especially Cassius because Cassius got everybody to believe that he was this terrible guy. The whole city of Rome betrayed Caesar by giving him this power and letting him be overly ambitious, and then Cassius gets everybody to think he was a bad leader. Finally, Caesar was betrayed by Brutus who was supposed to be his best friend, he listened to somebody else and then made the decision to kill Caesar. Cassius betrayed Caesar by basically bashing his name

Brutus listened to the wrong person about their opinion of Caesar. The text says, “It must be by his death, and for my part I know no personal cause to spurn at him but for the general. He would be crowned. How that might change his nature, there’s the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder And that craves wary walking.” (2.1.10-14). This explains that Brutus already had his mind made up that he was going to kill Caesar and although he did not have a personal reason. He listened to Cassius and got all of the bad stuff in Brutus’s head about Caesar. When really Caesar wasn’t that bad of a guy, he just acted how people that have that much power would