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An Effective Leader In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

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An effective leader is someone who can create a plan, stick to it, follow through, and consider that anything could occur. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Cassius is the person who originally started the plan to kill Caesar, “I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,/ As well as I do know your outward favor./ …/ I was born free as Caesar, so were you;/ We both have fed as well, and we can both/ Endure the winter's cold as well as he./ For once upon a raw and gusty day,/ …/ Did lose his lustre. I did hear him groan —/ …/ As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me/ A man of such a feeble temper should/ So get the start of the majestic world/ And bear the palm alone.” (I.ii.90-131). Cassius says how he believes that Caesar is no better than anyone …show more content…

Cassius had a plan to write Brutus letters pretending to be fans of Brutus, “I will do so. Till then, think of the world./ Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see/ Thy honorable mettle may be wrought/ From that it is disposed/…/ Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus./ If i were Brutus now, and he were Cassius,/ He should not humor me. I will this night,/ In several hands, in at his windows throw,/ As if they came from several citizens,/ Writings, all tending to the great opinion/ That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely/…/ For we shake him, or worse days endure.”(i.ii.307-322). Cassius knew how to get Brutus to listen to him and that if he made those letters saying that the better of Rome liked him more than Caesar and would want to have him as king. Cassius also made the letters due to Caesar loving and trusting Brutus more than him. This also proved that Cassius was aware that he would not be able to be king because Brutus would be trusted more as a king than he would. He also believed that Brutus would be the only one to be able to be close enough to Caesar to kill him. Brutus was friends with Caesar and Caesar even said, “Let me have men about me that are fat,/ Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights./ Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;/ He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”(I.ii.192-195). Caesar truly does not trust Cassius and so that means that

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