Explain how Julius Caesar is in part the story of the conflict between Brutus' ideals and the real world. Too much ambition inevitably leads to disaster. Politicians are concerned with power than issues affecting people's lives. Violence leads to more violence. Crowds can be easily manipulated and moved to violence.
Violence begets violence.
When legitimate authority breaks down, all other rules of society will crumble too. Begin your introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, which restates the main idea of the assignment. Be sure to state the theme in terms of a generalization about human nature or experience. Then indicate that the theme is illuminated through the other elements of the work. Choose at least two literary elements from another work of literature you have read to explain how they help illustrate the theme.