Antony was motivated more by his own desire for power than by his need to avenge Caesar's death. At first, Antony was struck with rage and a thirst for vengeance. However, as he was so gallantly on his crash-course to justice he realized that he could obtain great power, status, and wealth. Alongside Octavius, Antony took Rome by the horns. Antony had such a paramount loyalty to Caesar that it could of humbled the Gods. Or so it seemed. Behind the smoke and mirrors Antony appears to be selfish and greedy. He had an unimaginable hunger for power and an infatuation with war and leadership.
             At the beloved Caesar's funeral, Brutus makes a crucial mistake by permitting Antony to make a speech in the absence of the Noble Brutus. For this reason Antony is easily able to spur on the tentative crowd and gain control of a mob so massive it could be compared to a giant hurricane. He ignites the nieve crowd by pleading, "Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here, here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors!" (Act III, scene ii, L. 196-198) Moreover, he proclaims, "Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!" (Act III, scene ii L.204) From that pivotal point on the tornado of a mob rampaged through the unsuspecting streets of Rome in avid search for the conspirators. Meanwhile, Antony lounging in his lavish house, knew that with the conspirators being eliminated no one could stand in his quest for complete control of the powerful colony.
             Later on in the play, Antony, Octavius, and the "undeserving" Lepidus are pictured basking in a conventional Roman spa. Here the real Antony is unleashed and his true ideas can be revealed. In the midst of being masterfully massaged, young Octavius and Antony dictate who will be slain. These unfortunate Romans are only being killed because they stand in Antony&
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