“We make holiday to see Caesar, and rejoice in his triumph”, the Cobbler replied Brutus. The cobble explains why they weren’t working and not having all their working tools to work. The commoners were to see Caesar after he return to Rome after their battle with Pompeii. These people will make Caesar feel more powerful and granted, and thinks he could be the leader of Rome from what he sees how the commoners were treating him. And some of his friends are being nice to him, which they are faking it.
As commoners have overrated his leadership just by winning the battle against Pompei, by this Caesar feels more powerful and he seems to be more power hungry, but some of his friends thinks that he doesn’t deserve that much of respect from the commoners, and Caesar keeps on wanting more power, so that he gets respected and he gets his leadership. He will try to make the commoners to love him more. As he tries this he does it in a slow process. He acts with the commoners, he follows what the commoners wants, so that they will think that Caesar will is a good man. This will make him behave calmly in front of the crowds but mad in the inside. Some of his government friends were on his side and some were not, so then sometimes his motivation change and that makes him seem to be gullible comparing his behavior from many angles such as his private self, he is pretty gullible when he talked to Calpurnia about her dream, them he suddenly changed his mind and go with Decius’ thought.
Caesar acts sturdy in front of his friends who are betraying him, “…I’m fear him not: yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid so soon as that spare Cassius.” He is slightly insulting Cassius, and comparing to his friends that he thinks that they were really close to him, but I don’t think that Caesar mean it to say it like that, because some of his friends are. This really proves that he is very powerful in front of them to also convince them to Caesar’s side to make them respect Caesar more. As time pass along, Caesar get more and more respected and he knows that he was, then as he was respected his motivation changed, he become more arrogant than he was before, then as he became arrogant some of the
government people hated him such as Brutus, he said Caesar was ambitious and I think that this is how the people are starting to hate him more and get the feeling of murdering Caesar more.
I think that the main conflict of Caesar is that he was overrated as a leader by the citizens and that is the most effective motivator that Caesar started to act arrogant, ambitious, power hungry and all that adjectives that people hated Caesar said. From the citizens, his friends and his wife I think his behavior is different, but overall he acts arrogant and second he is gullible from everyone and by acting like this, I think that he partly achieved his goal, because he had quite a lot of people already in his side before he died, and including Antony which is probably the most important person for Caesar. I think that Caesar’s goal was worthy, but for himself, because probably many people wants to be the leader of Rome and have it’s power, but from the citizen’s side I think that it is not, because he seems to be very gullible and arrogant, and I think that if the citizen knows that he is gullible I’d think that they wouldn’t like him to be their leader.
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