Brutus Is An Honourable Man

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In the play, Julius Caesar Brutus is an honourable man loved by the people e of Rome but because of his idealism and inability to see things clearly, he is lead on the path of destruction. Brutus is easily manipulated by the people he associates with (The conspirators) he then pays the ultimate punishment after the hideous crime he commits in which he is unable to for see the problems Rome would face because of his deed.
Brutus is an honourable man because he would die for the good of the people of Rome and because of this the people of Rome love Brutus. The people show Brutus honour and praise which opens Brutus to manipulation and flattery. A good example of this is when we see Cassius talking to Brutus and he says “Tell me, good Brutus, can you see yourself?” in this particular conversation they are talking about the nobility of Brutus and Caesar. This conversation with Cassius
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Brutus is very confident that after he has committed his hideous crime and given his reasons the republic of Rome, the people will then mourn the death of Caesar and everything will go back to normal. This is not the case the repercussion of his crime changed the tides of times and Brutus himself was only able to see the repercussion unfold as they happened and was unable to see them happen before the time. Him not seeing this happen could be because his ancestors rid Rome of the last kings which was a good deed for the kings where cruel. This may have prompted Brutus rid Rome of Caesar before solid evidence of Caesars ambition to be king.
Brutus says that the conspirators are self-righteous and they are serving the romans. Yet he failed to see to see he was the only man in the group of conspirators who had an honourable reason to murder Caesar which was for the good of the people of Rome, while his accomplices did it for all the wrong reasons to name a few greed, jealousy, and the envy of

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