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Who Is The Traitor In Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar is dangerous. Very dangerous. He thinks that he is a god and is oppressive and insane. If you believe you are a god, you can lead yourself to do dangerous things. Julius once said, “I like treason, not traitors.” That just proves his lack of sanity. The definition of treason is “the crime of betraying one's country”. The definition of traitor is”a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.”. There the same thing! If you betray your country by making yourself a dictator for life, you are also a traitor by turning you back on the rest of the government. The reason he was killed is because he betrayed his friends, even though they were senators he treated them like dirt. He deserved to die. If you think that you're a god,

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