Why Is Brutus Justified In Killing Julius Caesar

Brutus is shown as being easily manipulated in the play. This trait is shown a few times in the play. At the beginning, Brutus is tricked by Cassius into believing that killing Julius Caesar would be for the better of Rome (1, 2, ll. 32-321). Cassius is able to deviously influence Brutus into thinking that Caesar is no different from Brutus. He says, “Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that Caesar?/ Why should that name be

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.

To begin with, Brutus is too trusting of those around him. Brutus’s friend Cassius recognizes that Brutus is driven by what is best for Rome. Because of this Cassius devises a plan to plant a fake petition from the people of Rome stating that Caesar needs to be executed. Brutus never even questions that the petition is real. After reading the petition Brutus’ response is:

Cassius manipulating Brutus is the start of tragedy for Brutus due to Cassius being the catalyst of Brutus’ death. Cassius shows this by influencing Brutus to join him and the other conspirators in killing Caesar. “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 attempts to manipulate Brutus into killing Caesar with him by saying the people of Rome need him to. Cassius is fueling Brutus’ ego. Brutus takes the bait because of his aspiration to be the hero of Rome and his love for his country. Brutus does not realize he is being manipulated, which is what makes Cassius succeed at controlling him. Brutus does not realize he is being manipulated because he is oblivious to the outside world. He can only see and hear what Cassiuse is telling him about. This is what inevitably causes Brutus’ demise. Brutus’ death was impacted by his inability to see that Cassius was manipulated him. He is too blindsided by Cassius telling him he’ll be a hero to pay attention to the hidden meaning of his words. Cassius’ hunger for power leads him

Michael Ende once said, “When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” This quote describes Cassius down to a T. Once people shared their susceptible beliefs, they were able to be molded like putty to his liking. He is a liar, but an excellent one at that; he always knows how to use half-truths to get him exactly what he wants. In this case, he wants to be a person of a higher ranking. He is jealous that Caesar had more power, and his envy leads him to manipulate people in order to get what Caesar has. Manipulation is his strength and no one else has the savvy for deception quite like he does. It leads him to a tragic end, but not before he is able to take down others with his manipulative attribute. The play begins with Cassius manipulating Brutus to join the conspiracy, in which he is conspiring to kill Caesar, and ends with him dying in order to right his wrongs. Everything in between is manipulation after manipulation. Whether he is convincing himself of one thing, or persuading someone else of another, Cassius digs his own grave from the start. He convinces himself that he is nothing, and Caesar is everything, but he wants their names to have equal value. Cassius has every reason to kill him, and every plan laid out perfectly. What he does not count on are the repercussions of his actions. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Cassius’s manipulative trait is his tragic flaw that eventually leads to his downfall, because his jealousy motivates him to manipulate.

Brutus is a very well respected person who was driven down the wrong path. Cassius who is a manipulative, power hungry person guided Brutus down that path. Cassius manipulates Brutus into believing that his closest friend Caesar, a prideful person, was going to destroy his home, Rome, and made him believe they had to be the ones to stop him from “destroying Rome.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars /But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (1.2.141-142) Cassius was a large factor in Brutus’s decision to kill Caesar. Cassius influenced Brutus greatly and, while Cassius prodded Brutus to take action against Caesar, Brutus was already having internal struggles against Caesar. Brutus already mistrusted Caesar and wished to prevent Caesar from becoming too powerful. In “Julius Caesar” Brutus gives his reasons for killing Caesar several times and ensures everyone that he killed Caesar for the benefit of Rome. Brutus shows that be believes that if Caesar were to be allowed to live then Caesar would become king and enslave Rome. The conspirators, especially Brutus, believe that Brutus’s reasons were genuine. Several people believe that Brutus was right for killing Caesar because Brutus was doing it for the best of Rome. People also believe that, because Brutus was only trying to do what he thought was right, that Brutus is an honorable person. However, while he thought he was killing for the right reasons, Brutus did inevitably betray the Roman people, and several of Brutus’s reasons for wanting to kill Caesar were misguided, incomplete, or sometimes completely unfactual. This raises the question, is Brutus an honorable man? Brutus is not an honorable man, for he betrayed Rome and neglected his role as a friend.

Sometimes, political murder is necessary, even comprehensible. For example, if the political leader is an evil dictator who’s killing his citizens, then yes, maybe a murder would be necessary. But that’s not always the case. For example, in Julius Caesar, Caesar’s assassination was not justified. The reasons behind it were understandable, but still not justified. Cassius felt that Caesar would become a tyrant and that’s why he had to be killed.

Julius Caesar, a play written by William Shakespeare, shows how a good leader needs to be able to understand his people in order to succeed. In the play, loved and hated Caesar returns home only to be murdered by the conspirators, which begins a civil war in Rome. Caesar’s friends, Brutus and Antony, feel they need to address the situation by giving a speech to the people. Brutus uses rationalization to convince the crowd that killing Caesar was a favor to Rome, thus revealing that he believed his actions were justified, while Antony uses concrete evidence to humanize Caesar’s image, displaying his loyalty to Caesar.

When it is time to kill Caesar, all the conspirators want Brutus on their side because all the countrymen respect him. Cassius wants to kill Caesar because he does not want Caesar to be higher than him in status, but he himself does not wish to be king. Cassius asks Brutus if he can help the conspirators and him to kill Caesar and Brutus answers them, “If it aught toward the general good” (1.2.93). The only reason Brutus helps the conspirators to kill Caesar, if it is good for the people. He only cares about the people and does not kill Caesar for personal reasons.

Cassius sure is slick, don't you think? It's obvious he wanted Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar, but instead of coming right out and asking him, he tried to stroke Brutus' ego by suggesting that the

Joseph Stalin once said, “Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.” This is relevant, because Brutus and the conspirators think that killing Caesar will stop him from becoming dangerous. Brutus should join the conspiracy and kill Caesar.

He claims to be a friend of Caesar yet he goes behind his back and plans his death, which shows the type of person Brutus is. He lets Cassius try to convince him to go against Caesar. For example in Scene 1 Act 2 Cassius tries manipulating Brutus: “‘Tis just. And it is very much lamented, Brutus, that you have

While we know that Brutus was truly Caesar’s friend, it is possible that Cassius was just using Brutus. This could be proven in the play because he appealed to Brutus’s sense of honor, nobility and pride through the notes that he threw into his window and after they had killed Caesar their alliance almost broke due to the conflict on how to collect money to fund the army. The notes thrown were not necessarily a bad thing but Cassius not being able to make Brutus change because he was his friend shows another reason why Cassius could have been using

Throughout the play, Cassius finds ways to manipulate people into doing the things he wants. He persuades Brutus to join the conspirators. Brutus was on the fence about joining the conspirators when Cassius asks him. So, Cassius slips Brutus letters from “citizens” saying, “Brutus, thou sleep’st… Shall Rome, etc. Speak, strike, redress!” (II.i.48-49). This gets Brutus on board. This uses pathos to get Brutus convinced. The letters from Cassius are saying that they do not want Rome to be under one ruler. Brutus needs to fix it. Cassius uses Brutus’s raw love of Rome against him. He makes Brutus think that the people do not want Caesar, so he must do something. Cassius also uses persuasion to manipulate Casca into joining the conspirators. Casca