Violence In Julius Caesar Research Paper

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a play that warns us of the consequences of violence. The play starts with a group of conspirators planning to assassinate Julius Caesar, the military general of the Roman Empire at the time. However, after his death, Rome goes into chaos. The play illuminates that using violence for a positive change in the world will ultimately lead to failure; the fatal flaws in the conspirators' vision had devastating consequences for Rome. The conspirators in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar had a vision of Rome that they believed justified their violent actions. They believed that by assassinating Caesar, they would prevent a possible tyrannical rule over Rome, and their preservation of a democratic society

thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason” (3.2.104-105). Even though the conspirators' scheme of assassinating Caesar worked in the beginning, they lost the support of the public and started a civil war, leading to their downfall. According to an article written by the Utah Shakespeare Festival, “History has proved that though Brutus and the other conspirators believed that Caesar’s death would save the republic from tyrannical leadership, it had the reverse effect. It was only two years after the deaths of Caesar, Cassius, Brutus, and Mark Antony that Octavian, Caesar’s grand-nephew, was crowned as the first emperor of Rome. So, in the future, this leads to Octavian Caesar's grand nephew taking the throne to become the first emperor of Rome, which is what the conspirators were trying to prevent. One person has complete rules. Seeing that the conspirators had a childish belief that there was controlled violence that could be used for a positively reformed Rome, illuminating their lack of wisdom and flaws within their vision. In addition, the conspirators underestimated the power of the public when carrying out their