Is Brutus A Hero Or A Villain

Julius Caesar is a play known to many as one of Shakespeare's best. In the play, Shakespeare focuses on the assassination of Julius Caesar and does a good job of explaining what might have happened with the actions leading up to it and the events after. Throughout the play there is a lot of conflict and questionable actions that leaves the reader wondering was that the right thing to do? One of the biggest controversies in this play is created by Marcus Brutus who was a close friend of Caesar, but also one of the leaders in his assassination. The question is, is Marcus Brutus a hero, or a villain for what he did to caesar? Were his actions the right thing to do, or the wrong thing?
When I think of a hero and a villain, I think hero as being the good in something and villain as being the
Given that he said he was loyal to Caesar, was a friend to him and says that he was loyal to him but still killed him bares the question even more. Is brutus a honorable man? Other example of this is when antony enters and says his speech to argue against brutus. In the speech he repeats the phrase “Yet Brutus w=says he was ambitious, and brutus is an honourable man” (act 3 scene 2), he uses this to start off with in a agreeing manner to state that yes he is an honourable man but soon uses examples of how Caesar was not ambitious and uses these words in a aggressive manner that is used to convey the audience to realize how brutus isn't an honorable man. I agree with antony on this because to me to be honorable you have to know what loyalty means and where to put it and you shouldn't be loyal to a man that you're about to kill. This makes me think that brutus might misinterpret what loyalty is and what honorable means and so when he says he's loyalty to rome was greater than his friend than what if he has a higher loyalty above rome that one day might come down to deceiving rome. This to me makes Brutus a dishonorable