Examples Of Marxism In Julius Caesar

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, there are several instances of Marxism in the text. Caesar was in a powerful position as dictator in Rome. For that reason, he sought after the responsibility of ruling the citizens of Rome into a new era of monarchy. However, there were several noblemen and high ranking officers that plotted against him. These conspirators coveted the old republic of Rome, let to the assassination of Caesar, and then a battle with those that avenged Caesar’s death. The examples of Marxism in Julius Caesar are about the conspirator’s overpowering Caesar, Antony’s revenge on the conspirators for power, and Julius Caesar’s control over the conspirators to gain power.
Initially, the conspirators plotted against Caesar and assassinated him, because they feared him as a powerful king. Caesar worked his way up in society into a powerful position as a dictator. He desired to be crowned king of Rome, which he would replace Rome’s republican system of government. “But I am constant as the northern star,/Of whose true-fixed and resting quality.…/Yet in the number I do know
Their strategy was to gain power of Rome before the conspirators. “These many, then, shall die; their names are/pricked” (4.1.1-2). Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus discussed and prepared a list of names to be assassinated. They formed an army to take down the conspirators Brutus and Cassius because they killed Caesar. “That by proscription and bills of outlawry,/Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus/Have put to death an hundred senators” (4.3.199-201). Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus put a hundred senators to their death who were conspirators of Caesar and thus their enemies. They were prepared to revenge the death of Caesar, because the conspirators felt they were worthy to be in power. Therefore, Antony & Octavius planned to fight Brutus and Cassius to seize control of the Roman