Brutus In Julius Caesar's Trial

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Bill janklow once said, There’s a world out there, and you’ve got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime. The relevance of the quote to brutus is that he has to choose from either the dark or the right. The way brutus should have chosen was the wrong way he should have chosen what he did. Brutus should have chosen how he did, to join the conspiracy. Brutus wants not to lead but to join to get back rome. Brutus wants not to kill caesar but to get back rome how it was. Brutus was only wanting to join the conspiracy to make rome a better society but not to kill caesar. It must be by his death, and for my part I know no personal cause to spurn at him But for the general (II,i,10-12). Brutus only killed caesar to help prevent a monarchy from rising again. The conspiracy wanted to take out antony but brutus told them there is no reason to hack off caesar's limb but just the head …show more content…
Caesar would have forget all about the people of rome once he got power even thought he was with them all the time now. Set on, and leave no ceremony out (I,ii,14). Caeser was saying to not forget a ceremony but yet he would forget after he gained his power of rome. Brutus wanted no one to get emotional about caesar after he gained power so they would not get hurt but yet people got attached. The opposing view would have said that caesar would be loyal to his followers the whole time he was king. The conspiracy was committing a crime so it dont matter if brutus was loyal it shouldn't have happened. Brutus was trying to lead the conspiracy because he wanted the crown for himself not for the people of rome. Brutus was only attempting to be a conspirator because brutus was mad at caesar yet he did something beyond remarks. The group of people watching over brutus or the conspirators were putting bad stuff into his head not the truth about

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