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Julius Caesar Leadership Qualities

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Imagine having a backstabbing tyrant ruling your country. This could mean many things including impending doom for you and your people. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, exactly this would happen if Cassius were appointed leader of Rome. This is based on the negative leadership and speech qualities that Cassius portrays. He displays many negative leadership qualities including, stubbornness, selfishness, incompetence, and he fails to supply his country’s happiness. Aside from this, Cassius does have high speech skills which give him the ability to easily convince people which can easily be misused to a manipulative extent. We can see that Cassius is extremely manipulative, persuasive, and intelligent. These speech and leadership qualities can

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