Examples Of Aggression In Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar demonstrates growing aggression as he attained more success by being insensitive to the Germans and the Veneti. During his time conquering Gaul, Caesar sent his men to burn all of the farms in the German lands. This left thousands of people homeless and desperate for food (p.80). He cast even harsher treatment on the Veneti people. He ordered hundreds of leaders to be beheaded and had thousands of people sold into slavery (p.80). He also demonstrates aggression when he boastfully speaks about the actions that occurred in the Battle of Gaul. “Our men easily broke up the enemy’s mass formation, and, having achieved this, drew their swords and charged,” Caesar later wrote: “In the end, the wounds and toil of battle were too much