"Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he is," When Caesar said this, it illustrates to the reader Caesar’s character. These lines automatically set the scene of Caesar’s character being very pompous and self- confident. When said this not only does Caesar give the reader a since of his character but also gives the conspirators an other reason to kill him. The conspirators believe that Caesar is already going out of his head and is being viewed as a “god”, this is freighting for them because they do not want Caesar as king and to dictate Rome. Creaser being a man who had done so much for Rome and the common people, he was viewed in the play as very intimidating character, who had control of everyone and everything. However the mains faults in Caesar where is egotistic ways and his over scoring ambition and they ultimately lead to Caesar to death.
Since Caesar had done so much for Rome and was praised by men all over Italy he was starting to get over his head and became very egotistic. He did what he wanted when he wanted not worrying about the after math. Caesar in his own view was a great man, almost as if he was a god. When Caesar was being crowned at the statue of Pompay where he said his final words he talked greatly of himself. "I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality” Caesar was so confident and proud of himself that he compared himself to the Northern Star a star that is like no other. He believes no one is like him. What Caesar had done for himself was create a pedestal so high that no one is capable of knocking it down and no one is even worthy of climbing up to it, to be as good as Caesar. “There is no fellow in the firmament." At this point Caesar was admitting to the fact he is the best, and that there is nothing like him. The quote cleary shows Ceasars narcissistic ways and this was Caesar’s hubris. He had gotten so high up in his mind that his peers began to notice and so began the conspiracy plot. They were afraid of Caesar taking all the power and afraid of him being in control. Yet with Ceasars ambition he was not going to go down with out a fight.
Caeser’s ambition was what many of the consparitors were afraid oh.The knew he was a powerfull man that could do anything at that point. Caeser was not going to let anything or anyone get in the way of his ambition. When arriving in Rome after defeating Pompay, Caesar already gives the people a mere taste of his ambition and power. “I could tell you more news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarf’s off Caesars images are put to silence.” Caesar just arriving in Rome already had his eye open. He killed them for just taking down Caesars statues and yet Caesar became furious enough to kill them. You can see that Caesar won’t let the slightest thing get in the way. He will kill people to get to where is ambition leads him and this was worrying for the conspirators. They did not want Caesar’s ambition to get so high that it would be hard to knock him down. “But, he was ambitious, I slew him.” The conspirators saw this growing ambition in Caesar and for Brutus a man within the Conspiracy group admits to saying I killed Caesar for his ambition in Caesar’s funeral speech.
Caesar’s ambition and his egotistic persona were the main driving forces as to why the killed Caesar. These characteristics within Caesar made him arrogant and fearful among his peers. However being ambitious and egotistic is bound to happen for a man like Caesar who has done so much for Rome. He had the right to be proud of himself and being tactical was what he had to have to make Rome into what it was. The conspirators’ thought by killing him they would make Rome better, however they were not able to make this happen so at the end they slew Caesar with no positive out come. Caesar in my view did not deserve to be killed. He did everything he could for Rome and it is only human of his to be proud of himself. After killing Caesar people saw his dead body and saw tears within his eyes, is a man who Is intimidating cry? The people also learn that after Caesar dies he leaves all his money and orchids for Rome. Would a man that was only succeeding for himself and not carrying about his country do that? By killing Caesar the conspirators did not get anything, infact after killing him they made Rome mad and the people of Rome went into a huge riot.
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