William Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar to show how he began his legacy and how he died. Although William Shakespeare wrote about Caesar, he wrote Julius Caesar to show how people are followers that don’t usually make our own opinions but instead listen to any person that is high in power or important. Therefore, people are simple-minded and when trying to put the mind to something on our own we give up because it was difficult. Shakespeare also teaches the reader what it really means to be human. For Shakespeare, to be human means to be a living person that is controlled by a higher authority and not able to form their own ideas or opinions. When it seems that you made your own choice, really you were tricked into doing it without even knowing,