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Julius Caesar V-Format Thesis Paragraph: The year was 42 BC, and, while passing through the streets of Rome, I was confronted with a decision. While walking in the city, I spotted a throng of plebeians chanting and shouting. As I approached, I realized that Marcus Brutus had just finished giving his speech at Caesar's funeral, and the crowd favored Brutus. As I was a soldier in the army of Caesar, I was shocked at the crowd's disloyalty toward Caesar, and I decided to leave and continue on my walk. Brutus quickly caught up with me and approached me with a generous offer in which I would leave the army of Caesar and join his army. I was unsure at first, and I asked him to give me some time to ponder. As a noble citizen of Rome, I felt that…show more content…
I decided to join Mark Antony's army for a multitude of reasons, but a key factor in my decision was that the killing of Caesar was simply illegal. Section Six of the Ninth Table of Roman laws stated, "Putting to death... of any man who has not been convicted, whosoever he might be, is forbidden." ("The Twelve Tables"). Thus, Brutus and the conspirators was guilty of breaking this law, but they were not punished; instead, they fled Rome and avoided the law. Additionally, although Marcus Brutus claimed the logic behind the killing was the fact that he loved Caesar, but he loved Rome more, Caesar never hurt Rome in the first place. On the contrary, Caesar alleviated debt, raised the employment rate, improved the overall look and reputation of the city, and left his personal estate to become the first public parks and beaches (“Caesar as Dictator: His Impact on the City of Rome”). These actions proved how much he loved Rome and its…show more content…
Caesar made them feel powerful and strong as he won battle after battle. He enriched the people with the spoils of war, making the poor wealthy and the rich richer. Even after he conquered a country, he did not take the citizens as prisoners, but instead awarded them with citizenship, as if they were born as Romans. Caesar made the people happy. I, too, was an avid follower of Caesar ever since I was a young man, and I, much like most of Rome, was absolutely heartbroken to hear of his cruel, undignified murder. Caesar was the person everyone looked up to; the person everyone tried to be. The logic behind robbing the people of the person that made them happy, at least in my opinion, was completely unjustified and illogical. Some citizens may have viewed Caesar as becoming pompous and pretentious, and there may have been some truth to that, but, at the time of the murder, he did not do anything to hurt the general population, and that it is the one characteristic required of an exceptional
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