Examples Of Misunderstanding In 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.

Similarly, by not destroying Mark Antony along with Caesar, let alone allowing him to speak in Caesar’s funeral, Brutus engineers his future’s demise. “‘. . . Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Let’s be sacrificers, but not butchers . . . let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully . . . and for Mark Antony, think not of him; for he can do no more than Caesar’s arm when Caesar’s head is off’”(916). This is an even greater fallacy than the first. Antony’s rage and passion is enough force alone to drive him and the Roman army to kill every last conspirator, gossiper, and senator who was set against his great Caesar. The fiery drive behind Antony was an imminent threat to Brutus and the conspirators, yet because of Brutus’s flawed logic, Antony lived and they died. Another illustration of this is when Brutus makes the decision to allow the silver tongued Antony to speak in Caesar’s funeral. After a weak, unconvincing speech given by Brutus to the public, Antony takes center stage, capturing the hearts, minds, and attention of the people, essentially turning them on their former leader. “‘Oh most bloody sight!’ ‘We will be revenged.’ ‘Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!’”(954). Brutus’s most prominent, fatal flaw is his lack of sound judgment.

As noble and great as Brutus might be, all tragic heroes have some tragic flaws and make some errors of judgment, which leads them to their downfall. In this case Brutus's great flaw is that he is too honorable, and he's too naïve when he is dealing with people. An example of an error of judgment is when Brutus underestimates Antony, and thinks him incapable of being dangerous after Caesar's death, "For Antony is but a limb of Caesar...he can do no more than Caesar's arm When Caesar's head is off."  This turns out not to be the case. One example of Brutus's excessive honor being damaging to him, is when he decides that only Caesar should die and no one else even if they seem to threaten his cause, as Cassius warns repeatedly that Antony does.

In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, an honorable man, Brutus, is planning to overthrow the soon to be king, Julius Caesar. Brutus is persuaded by Cassius that Caesar is a liar, too ambitious, weak, and not fit to be Rome’s king. Brutus soon believed Cassius, and they and the conspirators made a plan to kill Caesar. After Caesar’s death, Brutus planned to justify his actions of killing Caesar at his funeral in his speech to the people. After Brutus’s speech, the citizens of Rome were all in agreement that Brutus did the right thing for Rome. Brutus then decides to allow Caesar’s best friend, Antony, to speak in honor of Caesar. Antony speaks, and he convinces the citizens that Brutus’s actions were unjust and turned the people against Brutus.

In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar there were many people that had major faults that hurt them but also so helped them in some cases. For example; Antony, Cassius, Brutus, and even Caesar himself. in that day in age patriotism was a noble thing and as many people stated Brutus was a noble man. Brutus didn't believe Caesar should have been in power and that Caesar was overly ambitious and that his ambition would cause problems for the kingdom.

differently, with the Senate killing themselves instead of Caesar, he would have gone on to rule the Roman people. Perhaps with the Senate gone, he would have accepted the crown and ruled as a King, completely ridding Rome of democracy. Another instance of denial comes from Brutus. He convinced himself that killing Caesar was for the good of Rome and was therefore able to justify the murder. With this method of denial, Brutus was certain he could “be robbed of emotion by disguising it as reasons of state (Holland 341). Caesar is equally as guilty of denying things right in front of him as he denies the evils to come upon him when he accepts Decius’ interpretation of Calphurnia’s dream. After Decius has given a differing interpretation, Caesar praises him by saying, “And this way have you well expounded it /...How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia! /I am ashamed I did yield to them” (2.2.91, 105-06). Caesar also seems to be in utter denial of Cassius’ hatred towards him (Blumenfeld 73). While it is clear Caesar

He does not want Caesar to be crowned king. Power meant more to Brutus than being noble to Caesar. The actions of Brutus do not reflect his intentions of being a nobleman. Contemplating the assassination, Brutus invokes the familiar Elizabethan analogy between the body politic and the body natural. In so doing he invokes the symbolic framework which establishes the relationships among the diverse issues and actions of the play and provides, in this case, an implicit refutation of the position he is about to take. For Brutus' political miscalculations, rather than being the almost inexplicable mistakes of a supremely virtuous character, are the manifestations of a clearly defined moral failing. Brutus, of course, misses the point of his analogy. Sensible of the hideousness of the "Insurrection" within the "little Kingdome" to which he likens himself, he does not go on to deduce, as he might be expected to, that "Rebels [ought] by the Justice of the law to be suppressed, even as the

In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar main conspirator Cassius uses rhetoric and manipulation to convince Brutus and the other conspirators to brutally murder Julius Caesar. Caesar’s murder creates many conflicts between the people who admire Caesar and his killers, which leads to a full scale war. The battle between emotion and reason is exceedingly significant. Humans automatically have the ability to reason, or the power to think for themselves, but sometimes emotion masks reason. When emotion clouds reason humans tend to make unwise decisions. Omen imagery develops the idea that when people interpret events according to fear and desires, chaos results.

In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Julius Caesar, the protagonist, Brutus, conspires against and successfully kills Caesar; to only find the city he loves in chaos and mutiny from his actions. Brutus in the eyes of many people was a noble and honorable man who loved and adored the city of Rome, and no person thought more of this than Caesar. To Caesar, Brutus was the son he never had, and his love of Brutus was known, therefore the thought of Brutus betraying him was absurd. However, imagine if not only Brutus did not love Caesar, but he hated him. If that was the situation in the Julius Caesar, the play would then change drastically, with almost every quote from Brutus changing. If this is the case, Brutus’ hatred of Caesar and love of

Brutus also, was trying to persuade others that Caesar wasn’t a good man which isn’t right like who are you to say that this person isn’t good enough to be king? What makes you better than him when you commited a crime that shouldn’t have taken place? How can people trust you when you killed an innocent man? Brutus isn’t king material he only looks out for himself and in this play it shows that. He was worried about Caesar being king and Caesar turned down the

“Honorable” is defined as “in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor”. It then defines “honor” as “honesty, fairness, or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions”. For Brutus to be considered an honorable man he would have to display those qualities throughout the whole play of “Julius Caesar”. Brutus, however, may have acted with honor in the beginning of the play, but he did not continue to throughout the play. Brutus’s willingness to trust people, naiveté, and pride causes Brutus to not display the qualities of an honorable man.

William Shakespeare is known for writing famous trajedies about certain things that can happen or already have happened to all of us so that we can relate and unterstand the story better. In Julius Caesar betrayal plays a big part in the story line. Betrayal is something that happens to everyone at some point in their life and it's one of the worst things that we have to overcome and sometimes we can't. Life is already not easy and when you factor in something like betrayal it can really hurt and even, like in Caesar's situation, kill you. Shakespeare wrote this play with different types of betrayal because there isn't just one. There are many different types of betrayal but they can all lead to the same outcome and that is why it is such a trajedy. In our world and in Julius Caesar betrayal is either driven by jealous and greedy people or ones that are convinced they are doing it for the greater good.

But Brutus thinks it is in the people's best interest that Caesar does not get crowned. This paper will be explaining and giving reasons on Brutus’s thoughts and reasons for joining the conspiracy to kill his good friend Caesar. Brutus justifies his reasons for joining the conspiracy and he also says “I know no personal cause to spurn at him, but for the general.”

Brutus commits three costly mistakes during the play. The first mistake that he makes is that he participates in the assassination of Julius Caesar. “People, and senators, be not affrighted.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare contains many important themes to the development of the plot; however, none are as important as the theme of deception. Shakespeare used deception to keep the plot rolling and to acknowledge the key moments in the play. By reading the play, it can be clearly seen that the people of Ancient Rome were easily swayed by deception. One of the main examples of deception in the play was Marc Antony’s funeral dirge. Another example of deception was when Decius assured Julius Caesar that nothing would happen to him at the senate. Lastly, the deceptive acts of persuasion committed by Cassius to convince Brutus to join the conspiracy.