Examples Of Honor In Julius Caesar

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions“ -Confucius. This quote is relevant because in Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony gave speeches after Caesar’s death. A speaker has to make connections with the audience, use creativity, and have passion. Antony was rhetoric, cunning, and used pathos to connect with the people of Rome. Brutus was also rhetoric, honorable, and used logos and ethos to influence the audience. Overall, Brutus did not influence the crowd like he hoped to. Antony knew how he was going to persuade the people before he gave his speech.

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.

Antony and Cassius, unlike Brutus, never separate their private affairs from their public actions while Brutus tries to prove himself by acting only with respect to honor and virtue, completely ignoring his personal concerns. For example, Cassius disliked the fact that Caesar became “godlike” in the eyes of the Romans, so he leads Brutus to believe that Caesar had become too powerful and must die by sending him forged letters claiming that the Roman people support the death of Caesar, ultimately converting Brutus to his cause. At last Brutus ends up murdering his good friend in an act he truly believed was honorable. Marc Antony, who also shares in Cassius’ selfish trait, persuaded the conspirators that he is on their side, therefore gaining their leniency. He proceeds to persuade the plebeians of the conspirators’ injustice and gains support of the masses.

Respect is possessing a deep admiration for a certain person based on their behavior and abilities. When a character earns someone’s respect, it infers they have a healthy friendship or relationship. They know they can trust and also rely on the person. To gain this form of high regard, characters must first gain an understanding for them. Understanding is developing and processing the meaning of character’s words and actions. This helps characters learn about the person’s true nature. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Brutus’ soldiers bravely go into battle for him and Antony honors the fallen Brutus. Shane is the novel by Jack Schaefer in which both Joe and Bob Starrett learn to see the true values Shane

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.

The play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare sets the stage for an honorable man named Marcus Brutus. His honor is characterized by several traits and actions present throughout the play. Brutus’ love to Rome proves honor by the things he sacrifices for the better of his people and country. His death resulting from guilt and the feeling of having to be with Caesar shows his modesty. In fact, his people, friends, and even enemies also perceive

Monday The least honorable character in Julius Caesar is Cassius. Cassius tries and destroy the life of Julius Caesar. He wants Brutus to think the people from Rome are concerned about Caesar's power. It's not honorable to dislike someone but cassius dislike Caesar and he also deeply resents being subservient to a tyrant, and there are indications that he would fight for his personal freedom under any tyrant. Cassius wants to remove Caesar from power. Cassius resorts to using his keen insight into human nature to deceive Brutus by means of a long and passionate argument. Cassius has some of his negative aspects. He has jealousy towards Caesar and that's probably why he dislikes him.

An honorable man has fairness and integrity in his actions, most fake honorability, only a select few have it. An honorable man wouldn’t kill another out of jealously. In the play The Tragedy Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar the leader of Rome, is assassinated by a group of conspirators. These conspirators are a group made up of the people in the senate, had their power taken away from the last dictator. Foolishly they take Ceasar as another dictator and tried to fix the problem before it even happened. However, they were wrong about poor Caesar, he was a honorable man that didn’t deserve to die because he was good to the citizens of Rome, he wasn’t in it for the power, and he supported them when needed.

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.

In William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, many themes are developed. One character, Brutus, displays a significant theme that develops through the entire play. The theme that is supported most by this character is the idea that honor and respect are gained through performing works for the good of others instead of for personal gain.

Cassius will do anything to get his job done. He wanted Caesar dead and was able to convince the other conspirators to do the same. Even though his methods are less than admirable, he got the job done. He has ambition and that makes him a leader who won’t fail to complete an objective. Brutus was easily swayed by Cassius and as a leader, this is a bad quality.

By his rhetoric, Cassius is able to make Brutus join the conspirators so that Cassius’ personal fear of Caesar becoming king will not play out.

Brutus is not only the most honorable character in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” but is without question

Cassius manipulating Brutus is the start of tragedy for Brutus due to Cassius being the catalyst of Brutus’ death. Cassiu shows this by influencing him to kill Caesar with Cassius and the other conspirators. “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”(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I.ii.54-60). Cassius is trying to to manipulate Brutus into killing Caesar with him by saying the people in Rome need him to. Cassius is playing to Brutus’ ego. Brutus takes the bait because he wants to be the hero for Rome because of this love for Rome. Brutus does not realize he is being manipulated, which is what makes Cassius so good at controlling him. This is what inevitably caused Brutus’ demise because he is too blindsided by Cassius telling him he’ll be a hero to pay attention to the hidden meaning in his words. Cassius’ need for power leads him to manipulate Brutus, but it is also what causes both of their deaths in the end.