Politics In Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

Politics plays a large role in our everyday lives. Sometimes an argument over politics will break apart even the most faithful of friends. Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar exhibits that because of greed, politics can greatly affect relationships, shown by Brutus’s speeches over how Caesar was too ambitious, Cassius’s lust for power, and the relationship between the people and their leaders because of Caesar and Cassius.
Brutus makes many claims throughout the play about how much he loved Caesar. “If there be any in this assembly, any dear / friend of Caesar’s, to him I say that Brutus’ love / to Caesar was no less than his” (III.ii.19-21). He and Caesar were great friends, almost like brothers. Brutus could only be driven to murdering his best friend through politics; it was Caesar’s greed that made Brutus feel the need to kill him. “Crown him that / And then I grant we put a sting in him / That at his will he may do danger with” (II.i.16-18). Had Caesar not been so power hungry, he and Brutus would have kept up a wonderful relationship, both in their personal lives as friends and political lives as senators.
He destroys, and creates, many relationships through his craving for power. One relationship that was built because of his greed was his close tie with Brutus. Before Caesar’s death, they were good friends, but they became closer during the conspiracy and the civil war that followed. And, through this conspiracy, Cassius hurt the relationship between Brutus and Caesar. If he had not convinced Brutus that Caesar was a tyrant, Brutus and Caesar would have kept up their friendship. These aren’t the only things that happened because of Caesar’s death -- Cassius’s greed gets in the way of many more