caesar persuasive essay

Elizabeth Hoback

Mr. Allam

English 2 Hour 5

11 March 2011

My people I hope you will hear what I have to say. It very important that you learn from this.  For me it was too late, but there is still time for you. I came to talk about friendship and how it really is not what you think it is. The truth is people will only betray, use, lie, and abuse you for what they want. And they do not care about what they have to do to get it. For they do not really care for you. Even if you look, you will never find someone who you can trust or would care for you.

There are some that say friendship is great. Because there will be someone you can trust and be loyal to you. They will be honest to you and you can be honest to them. There will be someone that will understand you and accept the way you are. How I wish that was true, but no one is truly that way.

How are you to be sure that you can trust someone. Why you can not and you do not want to anyway. I remember saying “Et tu, Brute?” (III.i.77) . What I meant when I said this was, “and you also Brutus.” Why did he do this to me one of my best friends? Oh how could I have trusted him and loved him. I would have never thought he would have just betrayed me like that. But all along he did not believe I would be a good king. All he ever did was lie to me. All that time planning my death right under my nose and I did not know.  I thought of him as a great friend and thought we were so close. But I was wrong. For when I looked into his eyes right before I died all I saw was hate in them. How could I have been so blind to the way people are.

Why is there not any one who cares for others?  All everyone thinks about is theirselves and how they can do better and be more powerful.  And even if they say it is for Rome, they are just doing it to make themselves look better. And while doing this they use all of Rome and the name of Rome for their own gain. When Brutes said his speech “… Not that I love Caesar less, but I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar living, and die all saves…” (III.ii.15-35). He was just saying all of it to justify what he did to me. So you would trust him and make him king. But the real reason Brutus and every one else did all of this was to make things the way they wanted it to be. Not for the greatness of Rome.

Believe me there is no such thing as a true friend. I may have leaned that the hard way but you do not have to. I hope that this will never happen to someone else. This will not happen to you if you keep this in mind. You ca not trust anyone. They will just lie, abuse, and use you for what they want. Never forget this ever or it might just be the end of you.