Julius Caesar was a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar was a great Roman general and senator born in 100 B.C. He has a wife named Calphurnia but no children. Though he was an illustrious leader, Caesar was a physically weak man; he suffered from epilepsy and was deaf in one ear. In the beginning of the play, Caesar was returning to Rome in triumph after a successful military campaign against Pompey"s sons. Caesar formed the first triumvirate with Crassus and Pompey. After the death of Crassus and Caesar"s defeat of Pompey, Caesar gained autocrat power. A group of...
a judgment: he did in fact vie for absolute power over Rome, although he refused the crown that was offered to him. Caesar reveled in the homage he received from others and in his conception of himself as a dignitary that will live on forever in men"s minds. Yet, his faith in his own permanence in both his loyalty to principles as well as his fixture as a public institution eventually proved to be his undoing. Caesar was one the audience would not want as a friend for he was too arrogant for most people to get along with.