John Wilkes Booth Vituperation Essay John Wilkes Booth is the worst man to ever assassinate a president. John Wilkes Booth was a jealous and arrogant man. Who allowed his views to become twisted until they eventually led to his demise? John Wilkes Booth was susceptible to fame and was a malicious and jealous man. His murderous life could hardly be blamed on his childhood, but his desire to be an actor came from it, and it was acting that changed his views. Booth’s desire to be an actor started at a young age, because his father was one. He was his father’s favorite son, and was known to be a rowdy and wild child. Booth showed few signs of his future murderous spirit, except for the time he set about killing all the cats in his neighborhood. …show more content…
This did not lessen his jealousy towards his brother. Booth continued to seek fame in whatever form, and he finally found it, in the South. John Wilkes: Both’s qualities were mostly vices. He was jealous, selfish, cold to the people who loved him and arrogant. Booth was easily swayed by fame and thus, became enthralled by the South’s values. Since the South loved him, he completely converted to their values and believed to preserve the culture and beauty of the South. They had to succeed from the Union. The South just fed Booth’s arrogant and heartless personality. Booth was a jealous man; he despised the attention his brother Edwin got for acting, and his jealousy was increased by anger at the outrage of someone who supported Lincoln having such a successful career. Booth was also cold to the many women that flocked to him. When he did agree to marry he was so neglecting and unreturning in love his wife attempted to kill him but he lived. He was an arrogant man too, after killing the president, he was angered at the way others reacted to his deed, for he thought it was noble and right. As an actor, Booth had many admirers since he was very