Julius Caesar Cartoon

Do you agree that Brutus had a noble motive when murdering his adopted father, Julius Caesar? Discus

              Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, Julius Caesar adapted son killed the Caesar with Roman senators when he wants to be a king of Rome. Caesar died in the Theatre of Pompey in front of Roman senators. They stabbed Caesar with knife about 23 times. After they killed Caesar, Brutus says in his speech in front of Roman people that they killed Caesar because he loved Rome and wanted to save Rome from destroy and Caesar domination.

            Brutus had no intention to do all that things since he had been seduced by Cassius to kill his forefather. He did not tell the reason the led to his conviction that he loved Rome than Caesar. Cassius, Decius, Brutus and other Roman senators also gather together to discuss how to kill the Caesar. From what I saw in the cartoon, Brutus refuses to kill the Caesar. He also afraid that Caesar would turn Rome into a Chaos after became a king. 

             When all that things happen, Brutus and Cassius are in a battle with Mark Antony and Octavius and turned Rome into Chaos. Many people were died because of this tragedy. Brutus and Caesar also ran to Philippi because Romans were looking for them to take revenge for Caesar death.
 

            Besides that, Cassius just used Brutus to take kill Caesar for his personal revenge. Cassius really wants to kill Caesar because he wanted to have a power. We can know that Brutus felt guilty in killing his father his hesitated to stab Caesar.

            In my opinion, Brutus did not have a noble motive when murdering his father, he just confuse to make a discussion.

Julius Caesar

Based on the documentary A.B.B, do you think all the vices committed by Julius Caesar were necessary in order to safeguard the superiority of Rome as the greatest civilization in the ancient world?

       Julius Caesar is hailed as a great leader and military genius. Many historians know that Julius Caesar was the greatest leader in ancient time and believe that the superiority of Rome was because of Julius Caesar. But behind his brilliant reputation lurks a more sinister side. He is responsible for murder, mutilation and the destruction of an entire nation. When Caesar arrives in Gaul, the population is six million. When he leaves less than five million remain alive and 1.5 million of those survivors and now slaves.He was known for both fairness & cruelty but his cruelty was calculated in order to consolidate his hold on power. Caesar shows no mercy towards women and children. He supposed to be a great leader but he only watched when women and children want to passed the circumvallation but Caesar did not let them and lastly they died in starvation. He doesn’t have any sympathy towards women and children and scarifying other people life just to protect his army and Rome. Julius Caesar also the master of propaganda.

          Besides that, he was cruel when he ordered his army to cut off every man hands as a warning for those who do not hear his order and were trying to against him. The way Caesar use maybe can scare the people not trying to against him but he never thinking the consequences that he will faced when he do that if he keep to use the method.

    Other than that, when he having the battles to dominate the other countries many people will died. Example when he approached to Avaricum, many people had been slaughtered by his army. Lastly, Caesar also had sexual dominance when slept with many women including his friends’ wives. He always has sexual behaviour. Based on the reason, I think that Julius Caesar’s vices were unnecessary in order to protect Rome.