What Are Brutus's Decisions In Julius Caesar

Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the main characters in the play Julius Caesar, is also one of the most complex characters that exists in Julius’s story. As we get to see Brutus’s nature and identity develop over many scenes of self-conflict and executing crucial decisions that form the play,we begin to further understand Brutus’s difficult position instead of merely judge his actions over a few words on a page.

Brutus is seen as a very conflicted man during the early scenes of the play. This is where Brutus begins the tiresome process of making his first (of many) critical decisions. His love for Caesar as a best friend and his deep concern for the potential future of Rome and its people are things that seem to outweigh each other as he is faced with the pressure to join Cassius and his conspiracy to remove Caesar from his power that could become a threat to Rome. Brutus consumes what seems like decades to eventually join Cassius and his scheme to assassinate Caesar, which in turn shows the audience how significant both Caesar and Rome are to him.

In the midst of his efforts to keep a high reputation, Brutus has many times failed to distinguish the plans of Cassius and Antony. His high esteem fails to filter through his naïve thinking, as when he presumed the fabricated letters written by Cassius were true. Brutus seemed to often underestimate either the problem, or the person. Belittling a man like Antony was likewise one of Brutus’s mistakes that shaped the plot of the story. Even after receiving a second opinion from Cassius, Brutus fails to execute his intentions and consequently loses to Antony during Caesar’s funeral by giving Antony a chance to stir up the emotions of the people of Rome. This is what led to the destruction of his own