Caesar Essay

Ben Knight

Period 5

10/17/07

Many things can come from people that are too trusting; some are good, while some are bad. Caesar's personality was not trusting enough of others no matter how important they were, and this led to many negative events as seen in the play Julius Caesar. One prime example of this lack of trust can be seen through the quote "Et tu, BrutÐ"Ё?", where Caesar was too trusting of Brutus and never thought Brutus would stab him. Many similar happenings can be seen throughout history and even in society today. Examples can also be found in the play Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar was a man who thought he had no enemies or disloyal companions. Many times in the play he believed he was a god. He had many friends and followers that he thought loved him very much, for Cassius and Brutus this was not the case. In Julius Caesar there was one major quote "Beware the ides of March", which showed, as he waved the man away, that Caesar thought he had no enemies and was in a sense invincible. Caesar was so untrusting that he didn't listen to his wife, Calphurnia, when she said "Your wisdom is consumed in Confidence. Do not go forth today. Call it my fear that keeps you in the house, not your own". Calphurnia knew something was wrong but Caesar went to the senate house and was killed just as Calphurnia feared. Examples similar to these can be seen throughout the course of history as well.

Many historical mistakes dealing with a lack of trust can be taken from battles. In World War II, a U.S. code breaker deciphered a message from the Japanese giving information on the impending attack of Pearl Harbor. The military officer in charge did not trust that the code breaker had written the code down properly and suffered the consequence of the major attack on Pearl Harbor. Perhaps if the military officer had trusted the code breaker the attack could have been prevented. Another example can be taken from the World War II Doolittle Raid book entitled The Good Fight, "At first his superiors thought