julius cesar
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Julius Caesar
In the book Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, Cassius and the
conspirators depicted Caesar as being ambitious. He was also said to
not be ambitious by Mark Antony. He was, however, ambitious. This is
because he refused the crown three times, he did not listen to the
warnings that people gave him throughout the book, and he did not end
the punishment he placed upon Metellus Cimber's brother, Publius
Cimber. These were all acts of ambition. On the Lupercal, Mark Antony
presented Caesar with a crown. Caesar then proceeded to turn down the
crown three times. The reason he did this is because the crown was not
the real one, but only a coronet. This is known when Casca tells Brutus
and Caesar, I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown (yet twas not a crown
neither; twas one of those coronets), and as I told you, he put it by
once; but for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. The
reason that this was ambitious is because it shows that he wanted more
than they offered him and that he wasn't satisfied with just that...