Brutus in the Play Julius Caesar
The play Julius Caesar is a Shakespearean drama outlining the assassination of Julius Caesar and the events surrounding his death. Throughout the play, the character, Brutus is forced to make decisions that affect his everyday life. Shakespeare uses his soliloquies to allow the audience insight to the complexity of the character’s motives, and to reveal his conflicting motivations and interactions. Shakespeare uses Brutus’s conflicting motivations and interactions to show that one’s honor should be valued above all else.
In the play Brutus is portrayed as an influential man, passionate friend, a gracious master to his slaves, a loving husband, and a distinguished military leader. In Act I Scene II of Julius Caesar it becomes clear that Brutus thinks very highly of honor is when Cassius asks Brutus if he fears Caesar becoming king (I.ii.86 and 87). Brutus responds, “If it aught toward the general good set honor in …show more content…
In it, he describes Cassius and Titinius as the best Romans he has ever met, “It is impossible that ever Rome should breed thy fellow”(V.iv.107 and 108). When he goes on to say that Rome will never produce men equal to them ever again. He is honoring them in the best way they can. Later in the Act on a different part of the battlefield, Brutus comes to the conclusion to kill himself. Throughout the Act Brutus’s actions give us insight to his motivation to honor Cassius and Titinius and he feels that the honorable thing to do is run upon his own sword. In his last words he says “Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will”(V.v.57 and 58). He justifies his decision by stating he was more ready to die than he was to kill Caesar. This shows that even though he felt like he made an honorable choice to kill Caesar his decision to kill himself was on of utmost
The play Julius Caesar is a Shakespearean drama outlining the assassination of Julius Caesar and the events surrounding his death. Throughout the play, the character, Brutus is forced to make decisions that affect his everyday life. Shakespeare uses his soliloquies to allow the audience insight to the complexity of the character’s motives, and to reveal his conflicting motivations and interactions. Shakespeare uses Brutus’s conflicting motivations and interactions to show that one’s honor should be valued above all else.
In the play Brutus is portrayed as an influential man, passionate friend, a gracious master to his slaves, a loving husband, and a distinguished military leader. In Act I Scene II of Julius Caesar it becomes clear that Brutus thinks very highly of honor is when Cassius asks Brutus if he fears Caesar becoming king (I.ii.86 and 87). Brutus responds, “If it aught toward the general good set honor in …show more content…
In it, he describes Cassius and Titinius as the best Romans he has ever met, “It is impossible that ever Rome should breed thy fellow”(V.iv.107 and 108). When he goes on to say that Rome will never produce men equal to them ever again. He is honoring them in the best way they can. Later in the Act on a different part of the battlefield, Brutus comes to the conclusion to kill himself. Throughout the Act Brutus’s actions give us insight to his motivation to honor Cassius and Titinius and he feels that the honorable thing to do is run upon his own sword. In his last words he says “Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will”(V.v.57 and 58). He justifies his decision by stating he was more ready to die than he was to kill Caesar. This shows that even though he felt like he made an honorable choice to kill Caesar his decision to kill himself was on of utmost