Betrayal The Roman Empire was once the super power of the earth. The king or emperor of Rome basically held all the power in the world in the palm of his hands. Many people would do anything to have this absolute power and prestige. In fact many people were betrayed and murdered for this power. In both the film Gladiator and the play Julius Caesar, betrayal is shown at its worst. It is a horrible …showed first 75 words of 557 total…

…showed last 75 words of 557 total…Aurelius was not expecting to die so soon. Commodus is hugging his crying father, and then he starts to squeeze him to death without warning, smothering him until he dies. Both the play Julius Caesar and the movie Gladiator show Cruel, Greedy betrayal committed by close friends. In both pieces the person betrayed and killed was the Roman emperor or the future Roman Emperor. In the end all of the people doing the betraying died.