Cassius And Brutus In William Shaksphere Play Julius Caesar

Brutus was very naive and got influenced by Cassius very easily. Cassius was very smart and manipulated Brutus to make him agree with him. Cassius said, “If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius, He should not humour me.” (Shakespeare, p.13). Brutus believed that his friend, Caesar had a negative impact on Rome decided to join the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar. Even though Caesar was his friend, Brutus always showed loyalty towards Rome. Brutus' tragic flaw is that he is not good at figuring out other’s intentions, and trusted Cassius. If Brutus never listened to Cassius in the first place, he would not have joined the conspiracy, and might not have had a tragic end.

He states that Brutus is just as noble and worthy as Caesar. (Act 1, scene ii). He says that Brutus cannot see what everyone else does and recognize his worthiness. Cassius and the other senators do not want Caesar to be king because they would lose all their power. Cassius is slowly luring Brutus in to do his dirty work. He builds Brutus’s confidence up to make him thing that killing Caesar is the right thing to do. Cassius is basically playing with Brutus’s head because he knows Brutus will listen. So, Brutus joins the conspirators in killing Caesar. Cassius tells Brutus that it is for the good of Rome, and that he is saving them from a dictatorship. Cassius is going for Brutus’s weakest point, his care and concern for Rome. He knows that if Brutus believes the people distrust Caesar, then he will be convinced that Caesar must be thwarted. Brutus knew that if Caesar was crowned, he would never have a chance, and he was power hungry. This is what ultimately leads to the tragedy of Julius Caesar. After Brutus kills Caesar off, he starts to feel guilty for killing his friend, thus creating an internal conflict. Brutus was so confident that the plan would go exactly as planned that he fell apart when they encountered problems. If Brutus and the other conspirators had taken more time to think things through, they probably would have been more prepared for the situation that was handed to them.

He believes that he as a general, can calculate everything about the upcoming battle and makes tons of minor mistakes that should have told him that his methods were untrustworthy. Had he of listened to his friend Cassius, who was a seasoned general. Brutus might have avoided the military disaster that was brought about or at least made the battle have less casualties. He also believes that by killing Caesar it will send Rome into a peaceful golden age, but in reality Rome is thrust into upheaval and civil war. In Julius Caesar, the conspirators do not wish that they could act without suffering ill effects, as experienced politicians, they know full well their

Brutus was not right to join the conspiracy with Cassius to kill Caesar. When Julius Caesar returned to Rome, he was known as a hero. Other citizens of Rome were afraid that Caesar was going to be dictator for life and have too much power. Brutus was very close to Caesar and had to choose between his friendship with Caesar and to prevent Caesar’s goal to undermine the Roman Republic. Cassius had also convinced Brutus that Caesar was going to make himself a monarch and turned him against his own friend by manipulating him and making Brutus the one to kill Caesar. His reason for killing Caesar was he saw his power as tyrannical and he thought the Roman Republic Government was in danger. Brutus’ reasons are not valid because there was no need to kill Caesar. Brutus supported the republic with good intentions but bad character flaws.

As you read Julius Caesar you get to know the characters better and better. Like you start to understand that Cassius is way wrong with the whole plan to kill Caesar, and that Brutus should not have listened to him, but that we are talking about Brutus let me just say some things about him. Brutus was a fellow friend of Caesar but the problem was is that he started to listen to Cassius a fellow traitor of Caesar but used to be his friend a long time ago, in the story when Cassius and Brutus met on the day when Caesar has come from his conquest from Pompay Cassius told Brutus stories of how Caesar was a little girl and that he got cold for just falling in to the river and how he cried for help and Cassius helped him but he was a shamed of having such a little girl of a leader. To say the truth Brutus was not that bad of a person, he was a very good friend with Caesar, I bet he would have helped Caesar with anything, but the things changed and Cassius persuaded Brutus that Caesar was a

His logical ability to rationalize the conspiracy to kill Caesar, is weak, and a fallacy. Brutus says that he assisted in the murder of Caesar because Caesar was ambitious and that he would have become a tyrannical king. Although we know that Caesar did, in fact, want the crown, nobody can say for sure that he would have destroyed the Roman republic, or become tyrannical.In fact, we know that one of Brutus’s main reasons for killing Caesar was based off of the presumption that Caesar would become a tyrant. Brutus continues to say that he loved Rome more, but contradictingly he killed a leader that is very popular amongst the everyday citizen of

As Brutus explains as to why he killed Caesar the citizens start to be on brutus's side because he said “if I had not kill him they all would rather have caeser living and they all die slaves”-Logic. Even though it was a hard decision for him to make he made the right one and it was because he loved him that he killed him Brutus loved Caesar more than anyone else, but he love rome more and was willing to make the sacrifice to save the people of rome from

Brutus is a patriot and a nobleman. He is well-off and well respected in Roman society, and Caesar is his personal friend. The reason Brutus turns against caesar and plains to kill him starts when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer, beware the Ides of March. A day later Cassius and Brutus talk about how bad it would be for Caesar to be king. Cassius and Brutus both agree and are unhappy and suspicious of Caesar.

In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar the character of Brutus was motivated to kill Caesar because he felt Caesar was suppressing the people. Brutus loved the people and wanted them to be free from tyranny. Similarly during the end of the Civil War the Union was beating the Confederacy. Booth was a great supporter of Confederacy. This motivated Booth to take action to prevent the confederacy from losing the war.

    The people of Rome, although highly gullible and indecisive, love Brutus. Some reasons for this are his nobility, honorability, intelligence and his caring nature.  Cassius thinks that Brutus is noble, he states this in his soliloquy when he says “Well, Brutus, thou art noble. Yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed. Therefore it is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes, for who so firm that cannot be seduced?” (I,ii,304-308)  Brutus is wanted so terribly by Cassius because of the fact that so many Roman people, including Caesar, trust and adore

Brutus is considered to have a very strong relationship with his good friend Caesar but it seems that Brutus has an even stronger relationship with Rome itself. Brutus thinks that killing Caesar benefits Rome and thats what the people want, but really Brutus is scared of what power Caesar holds. Brutus does not want Caesar to have power or even rise to power. He believes that is Caesar has power, he will eventually turn his back on Rome and use his power for the

Brutus expresses honorable traits such as devotion to his companion Caesar as he emotionally expresses that “[he] [loves] him well” and he also “[loves] the name of honor more than [he] fears death” when speaking to Cassius regarding Caesar (1.2.89). Brutus illustrates the true extent of his intimate attachment for not only Caesar, but also for the people of Rome as he states a willingness to die in order to protect its democracy. As Brutus’s obsession with Caesar’s ever-growing power intensifies he confesses his fears to his friend, Cassius, who mirrors and supports his opinion. Instead of assuaging his fears, Cassius recklessly encourages Brutus to act. Nobody counters Cassius’s judgement, thus urging Brutus to take action. Brutus perfectly represents the unwritten code of mos maiorum of the early Roman Republic because, like his ancestors, he strives to preserve the democratic state. Although he loves Caesar, he realizes that his existence threatens Roman democracy. Cassius persistently manipulates Brutus however he refuses to budge unless it “aught toward the general good” for his beloved Rome (1.2.85). Rather than taking action for personal needs such as power the way Cassius performs, the selfless Brutus strictly operates for the general good of Rome, refusing to act for any other cause. Brutus reflects the Roman ideal leader since at this period most leaders act in selfishness. The reliable Brutus, now aware if Caesar’s impurities, only serves for good and keeps his honorable reputation of the general public. During act 2.1, the self-sacrificing Brutus convinces himself that action must occur to deliver the citizens’ freedom from Caesar’s threatening ambition which motivates him to conspire against and murder Caesar, consequentially making him a fugitive. Pushing

Cassius influences Brutus to commit treason to his friend Caesar. Cassius states, “Men can be masters of their fate. It is not destinys fault, but our own faults, that we're slaves” (1.2.140). Cassius describes saying that Caesar has epilepsy, he says he’s weak. Cassius begins comparing Caesar to Brutus saying that they are both royalty, and the people of Rome look up to him.

Brutus is only one out of few that will not betray the Roman Empire. He wants to do what is right. Cassius tries to convince Brutus that Caesar is a bad ruler. Cassius is plotting a plan to convince Brutus that Caesar is a bad ruler and to help kill Caesar.

“'Tis just, And it is very much lamented, Brutus, That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye, That you might see your shadow. I have heard Where many of the best respect in Rome, Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus And groaning underneath this age's yoke, Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.” (Act 1 scene 2) Cassius, an envious man, dislikes Caesar because he sees him as a tyrant who has gained more power than any other man in Rome, and Cassius, a Roman senator, is jealous of the protagonist. Even though the senator disagrees with Brutus's tactic decisions and is his foil; he needs Brutus on his side because he is an honorable man who is widely respected by the people of Rome. Cassius uses flattery to get Brutus to join the conspiracy.