Brutus Character Analysis

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The Tragedy of Brutus? Trust is in no means a bad trait to have but when does trust no longer good to have? In this play people can tell at first Brutus is torn between weather or not he should join the conspirators. Since brutus trusts the men in the conspiracy and trust the reason they are doing things he decides to join the conspirators. After they kill Caesar it takes a turn for the worst. Antony asks to speak at Caesar's funeral, all the other conspirators think this is a bad idea, Brutus over rules all the men and and lets Antony speak. Brutus thinks if he sets rules Antony will follow them and make the conspirators look good to the people of Rome. Since Antony gets to talk this leads to them going to battle and Brutus killing himself. …show more content…

Brutus is so trusting in the people of Rome that he becomes oblivious to things. In this play in a few places it is obvious that Brutus is very trusting and he kind of does not realize other things that could happen and are happening. For example when Brutus dies thinking that everyone is true to him and no one has ever done him wrong. “My heart doth joy that yet in all my life/ I found no man but he was true to me.” (5.5.34-35). Brutus is saying that his heart is happy because his whole life everyone in Rome has been nothing but true to him. When reading this quote it reveals that Brutus is very oblivious to the fact that the men he was closest to were not true to him. The men in the conspiracy lied to Brutus about why they actually going to kill Caesar and they also lied just to get Brutus in the conspiracy in the first place. Brutus trusts these men but it leads to his …show more content…

The moment Brutus started to question if he should be in the conspiracy it was no good but when he decided to actually join it to kill Caesar it was a bad choice and a choice that in the end lead to his death. “And therefore think him as a serpent's egg/ Which hatched, which as his kind grow mischievous,/ And kill him in the shell.” (2.1.32-34). Brutus is saying that Caesar would be a dangerous man once he gets power and once he gets the crown and hatches from his shell he will be poison, so they need to kill him before he gains power. That moment is when Brutus decides to join the conspiracy. Does he say those things thinking they are actually true? Or does he say those things because it is being fed to him and the people feeding it to him he trusts so he starts believing it himself? He trusts those men in the conspiracy and wants to best for Rome so he joins and helps kill Caesar. When Brutus decides to join the conspiracy it is leading to his death because he starts to make all the decisions for the men in the conspiracy and does not listen to anyone else's ideas. He is trusting his own ideas so much that when someone else comes up with something he does not let them get there way and he gets his way. For example the men all believed that when they kill Caesar they should also kill Antony. They think that Antony will get the power after Caesar is dead so they also want him dead so

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