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

         Julius Caesar was killed in 15^th March 44 BC by 60 of Roman senators that led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and his adopted son, Marcus Junius Brutus. They stabbed Caesar about 23 times until death in the Theatre of Pompey. Brutus claimed in his speech that the reason he killed Caesar was because he loved Rome than Caesar and it shows that he wanted to save Rome from Caesar domination. In my opinion, I do not think that Brutus had a noble motive in murdering Caesar because of some reasons.

            First, he did not precise his motive well as he only claimed that he loved Rome more and Caesar was an ambitious man. He did not tell that the reasons the led to his conviction. He afraid that Julius Caesar would turn Rome into a chaos after he had been titled as a King, however he could not guarantee and did not have any evidence that this would happen. In addition, he was the one who turned Rome into chaos as there was a battle between him and Mark Anthony after the tragedy. He also ran away to Asia with Cassius since the Romans were looking for them and it shows that the Romans still wanted Caesar as their dictator.

            Besides, he had no intention to kill Caesar since he had been pressured by Cassius who seduced him to murder his own forefather. Cassius used Brutus for his innocence attitude to succeed his personal revenge towards Caesar as he wanted to be as powerful as Caesar. It is also shown when Brutus hesitated in stabbing Caesar like what other senators did and he murdered himself after the tragedy. It is believed that he felt guilty in killing his adopted father for unsure reason.

          In conclusion, Brutus did not have a noble motive because he just made it to confuse the Romans and murdering is not the way for freedom and the act itself is brutal.

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 was one of the greatest leader ever existed in ancient time and it is supported by many historians who believe that the superiority of Rome was because of Julius Caesar. However, Julius Caesar behaviour in order to protect Rome was unnecessary and can be classified as cruel.

          All Julius Caesar’ vices were against the morality and humanity which are qualities that supposed to have in a good leader. Julius Caesar watched 20,000 of women and children died in starvation just because he did not let the people passed the circumvallation to protect his army. It seems that he was willing to do anything to protect his army and Rome nevertheless by sacrifying other people and have no intention to help them was unacceptable behaviour. It shows that he was conscious his power than people’s life. Besides, he also ordered his army to cut off all survivors’ hands as a warning for those who were trying to against him. This act shows that he used a brutal way to scare the people off without thinking the consequences and the circumstances that should be faced by the people who had lost their hands for no reason. 

          In addition, he always tried to dominate many countries by having bloody battles. The example is when he approached to Avaricum where a battle had held and about 39,000 of men, women and children had been slaughtered by his soldiers. There are many other ways that can be applied to dominate a country and by killing innocence people, this cannot be described as a victory but as a lost. Other than that, Caesar had slept with women including his friends’ wives and it shows that he had lost his mind for power. He did so to show his dominance over the women and automatically over the husbands.

        In conclusion, based on the reasons I has given below, it shows that Julius Caesar’s vices were unnecessary in order to protect Rome because it against the morality and humanity that should be had in a great leader.