Should Brutus join the conspiracy? Brutus was good friends with Caesar and he loved him but Brutus felt that he was descended to kill Caesar because that was what was going to be best for Rome and its people. The conspirators want to convince Brutus to join their plot against Caesar. They want Caesar dead before he does something bad to someone else. Brutus has to decide whether to kill his bestfriend Caesar or listen to the conspirators on what they think is best for Rome. Brutus says the only way to kill Caesar. “He has no personal reason to strike at him”(ii,i,10). On one side, Brutus personally loves Caesar, but on the other side, he admits his loyalty to the Roman public will come before his love for caesar. The only reason …show more content…
Caesar is a young man who the public think would put himself before others and do what's best for him and not the people of Rome. Cassius thinks Brutus is easy to manipulate and trick,so giving him false letters from angry citizens wanting him to take action against Caesar. Brutus becomes convinced that the citizens want to stop Caesar from becoming emperor of Rome as a result of the false letters. Why would Caesar be a bad leader? Rome would fall if Caesar had it in his hands. Members of the senate believed that Caesar would become a dictator if he was given too much power and overuse it. Brutus is noble, he is earnestly committed to public service and overall a good person of his country. Brutus anxiously joins the conspiracy against caesar. Brutus thought Caesar was a dictator. He was a great friend of Caesar but he wanted to join in with the conspirators to free Rome from Caesar's later bad decisions that could be made. Brutus believes that Caesar would be good for Rome. He feels that Caesar is a young man who dont even have any intentions on being a leader to Rome, he only wanted to have a label to himself and do good for himself and only himself. Brutus felt that for the well-being and the freedom of Rome, it was necessary that Caesar should be
“Brutus did not know if he would go through with the murder” “How was he to kill a man he loved? A man who had loved him like a son and may even be his own true father”. Brutus doesn’t think he will be able to kill a man who he and all of Rome loves. Caesar was more like a god than he was a man. Admittedly, there are some people who believe that Caesar was to powerful and needed to be taken out.
Should Marcus Brutus join the conspiracy against Julius Caesar? In Act II Brutus is battling an internal conflict on whether or not he should save his dear friend or potentially save the Republic from the power abuse they expect from Caesar. Marcus Brutus should join the conspiracy against Julius Caesar. Caesar will be too powerful to be removed from power if they wait to assassinate him once he has been crowned, Brutus wants to follow the path of his ancestors and continue his family’s legacy and impact on Rome, and Brutus chooses the best interest of the people over his own best interest. Julius Caesar will be too powerful to be removed from power if they wait to assassinate him when he has demonstrated any abuse of power, so in order to save the Republic from the potential threat they must kill him now as he is weak and vulnerable.
People would view brutus as rogue and a scoundrel. But the truth is is he was blinded by cassius that caesar turn rome’s citizens into worshippers of caesar and his bloodline. forever abolishing Rome’s religion Cassius used brutus to kill caesar and save rome. But it proved that brutus valued rome over the friendship with him and caesar. The aftermath of the assassination of leads to brutus and the others killing themselves in the battle.
Should Brutus join the conspiracy against Caesar? In the play, Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, Brutus is conflicted to join the conspiracy after they plot to assassinate Julius Caesar. Although Brutus is indecisive, he thinks of all of the things that Caesar has done in the past, and all of the possibilities to come in the future. Will he make the right decision?
Should Brutus Have Joined the Conspiracy? Should Brutus have joined the conspiracy? Brutus made the correct decision to join the conspiracy and this essay will discuss and provide three reasons for the decision. The first reason for joining the conspiracy and taking down his best friend is that Caesar will become too powerful to lead Rome. The second reason for taking down Caesar was that he’s misleading and never truthful to Rome.
(II, 10-15) Brutus says the conspiracy is nothing personal towards Caesar. Similarly, Brutus sincerely believes that evil may come rather than the good that may come from Caesar, once he gets full power of Rome. Furthermore, they were both true friends, but Brutus thought the decision of killing Caesar was necessary to free Rome from Caesar's tyranny.
Brutus was an honorable, kind, and noble friend to Julius Caesar. But Brutus was also part of Caesar’s death. Brutus was a man of Rome and was loved by everyone in Rome. Everything he did was for the good of Rome. But due to his lower intellect, he fell for Cassius' sinister plan to kill Caesar.
he had to choose between his friendship with caesar and his public responsibility to prevent caesar's alleged ambition of undermining the roman republic. cassius has convinced brutus that caesar plan to instill himself as monarch. a monarchy would rob the romans of the long held liberties. brutus' character is summed us in marc antony's speech in the play. "this was the noblest of them all.
So, he decided to take things into his own hands and protect Rome. “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and all slaves die, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” (Shakespeare 3.2.21-24) This quote shows that Brutus really did love Caesar but thought that by killing Caesar, he would protect the freedom of all Roman citizens.
Killing Caesar wasn’t because he wanted to rule Rome, it was because he wanted to save Rome. Caesar was putting Rome in a very bad circumstance, Brutus was trying to get them out of it and ended up having to split from Rome and ended up in Philippi, which ended up with war. In addition, Cassius and Brutus both wanted opposite things, Cassius wanted money and Brutus wanted to save Rome because he cherished it. Everything was for Rome and Caesar didn’t like that and came back as a ghost to haunt Brutus in a way. Brutus needs to take accountability for what
Brutus has a vision, and he intends it to work out in every way he plans. In a sense he achieves what he wants, and killing Caesar may have been crucial to his short-lived success.
Julius was loved by so many people that his death had caused a civil war. However, by making himself dictator made a lot of people angry, for example the group of people that had assassinated Julius. “The conspiracy failed to achieve its desired goal, and rather than restoring the republic, the assassination of Caesar triggered a civil war.” It shows that Brutus really wanted to be apart of the assassination because he had wanted Rome to be restored, but instead of making things better, all he did was start a civil war that essentially was made a very significant constitutional transformation throughout Rome. Brutus and Caesar had made Caesar trust him and believe that he could be his friend but he had proved him wrong in the actions he took by siding with Cassius and betraying Caesar once again.
When Brutus was talking to the conspirators Brutus was going back and forth think if he should help the conspirators kill Julius Caesar. He was going back and forth because he was thinking of the power he could have and could rule Rome. The reason behind Brutus killing Caesar was for the better of Rome. If Brutus would not have killed Caesar, Rome would have turned into a dictatorship, and in turn it would have ruined Rome and all of its people. Brutus did not kill Julius just for the power to rule Rome, he killed Julius to save Rome from Caesar’s dictatorship.
Brutus believes that Caesar will do more harm than good to the people, and reap benefits for himself. Brutus has already said this, but had said it in his own words, (II, i, 12-14). He has no clue if Caesar will use his power for the good and betterment for the people, or use it for his own needs and other
When Brutus was speaking to the people of Rome about how he helped assassinate him, he justified it by saying, “not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved / Rome more” (3.2.23-24). Even though Brutus is close to Caesar, he has to think about the city he serves first. Brutus wants to do what is best for Rome so if that means he has to harm a friend, he will do so for the greater good of the city he knows and loves. All it took was the conspirator to talk to Brutus a little bit to make him realize Caesar’s potential danger and say “That at his will he may do danger with” (2.1.18).