Alexander The Great Video Analysis

When people think of Alexander the Great how do they think of him? Do people interpret him as great or just a big jerk? History wrote Alexander the Great down as, well great, but is this really the truth? Or are most of the time people with these self proclaimed titles just jerks with over inflamed egos? In social studies class, we watched three very different videos about Alexander the Great. Each video portrayed Alexander in different ways. One of the videos portrayed him as vain, but very powerful. Another portrayed him as a kind, gracious, and well great king. The people in this video thought of him like a God.The final video portrayed him a very different light that is different than how most people see Alexander the Great. This final video portrayed him as a evil, ruthless killer, with all of humanity's worst traits manifested in him. In my personal opinion Alexander the Great was not at all great. He doesn’t deserve his title of great. It would almost be like giving Hitler the title of great (which in no way was Hitler great). The three videos helped me to determine whether Alexander the Great was bad or great.
The first video that we watched was a Horrible Histories video. These videos are meant to make people laugh and not meant to be informational. This video portrayed Alexander the Great as demanding, vain and as a
Alexander the Great was hosting a banquet one night when the two men got into an argument. Alexander the Great was indeed drunk at this time. Cleitus said that his accomplishments and Alexander the Great was nowhere near as great as Philip and that Alexander owed everything to Philip. Alexander became so mad at Cleitus for saying this that he killed him by grabbing hold of a javelin and throwing it through Cleitus' heart. Before this Alexander the Great and Cleitus were good friends so it was terrible of Alexander to kill his own friend. No great person would kill their own