Julius Caesar Compare And Contrast Essay

Peace over Power As Ernest Hemingway once stated, “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another” (Goodreads). The assassinations of Julius Caesar and Yitzhak Rabin may have started as an idea, but each killer put his idea into action. Caesar and Rabin may have had good intentions of power, but others had bad opinions of the two. Despite the fact that Yitzhak Rabin and Julius Caesar lived in two different centuries, both men share one likely similarity and some reasonable differences.
Those who have looked into the lives of Julius Caesar and Yitzhak Rabin can quickly identify the contrasting reasons their deaths were plotted. Although both were determined leaders, the two had different goals in

Julius Caesar’s assassination was planned by a total of seven conspirators: Brutus, Casca, Cassius, Cinna, Decius, Metellus, and Trebonius. Cassius believed that it was Rome’s responsibility to stop Caesar from overpowering his people. This meant by way of assassination. To give meaning to his plan he began adding people to his conspiracy. Cassius manipulated Brutus into joining his conspiracy by telling him he was just as good as Caesar and an honorable man (JC I.ii.782-784). In a similar way, Yigal Amir, Hagai Amir, and Dror Adnani all contributed to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Yigal Amir was sentenced to life in prison for killing the Prime Minister. Hagai Amir and Dror Adnani were sentenced for conspiracy. Yigal admitted, “he did not regret his actions”(“1995” 1). His accomplices never showed remorse for their actions either. Yigal was said to have asked to “toast his achievement” at his sentencing (Bowen 1). In both events, the assassinations of Caesar and Rabin affected those around