Motivation

This post is not about personal motivation or motivation in a vague or general sense (anyone who has read any of this would have noticed that I have never given any personal information, none of the pictures have any person I know as I have more respect for my family and friends than to put their lives or mine on cyberspace for people to peruse who care nothing for them beyond what can be scamped, it is more a place for conceptualization and a photo-journalistic experiment) it is actually an attempt to communicate my uncertainness as to the motives of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. When read it almost seems as though Julius, Mark Antony, and Augustus are the heroes while Brutus and Cassius are the villains. I'll break it down piecemeal, Julius Caesar was a war monger who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Celts, Germans, Slavs, and numerous others, that is the most paramount aspect of his character. Mark Antony, through his actions after the execution, brought about the downfall of the republic and the rise of the beaurocracy, decadence, and ultimately the psychosis which was brought to a head by Nero, leading to the collapse of the entire Roman civilization. And he's a hero? Hardly, he, quite possibly, put what was simply a lovers rage, above any other consideration in his world. Brutus and Cassius were the only men who stood up to a man who put personal ambition above the citizenry he was entrusted to protect. Roman law called for the immediate execution of any man who aspired to dominate Rome through empire. They were true and willing to sacrifice themselves to see justice be done upon those who would subvert and ultimately destroy the Roman world which existed on three continents. Shakespeare portrays them as betrayers and conspirators, things I would not be willing to admit they were. Some have suggested to me that the entire play is written in sarcasm, and he was the modern ages first psychological professional in many ways. I'll be sure to ask him when we swim side by side in the Great Silver Stream.