Is Brutus A Friend Or Traitor Essay

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Caesar is becoming the king of Rome soon, but Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Metellus Cimber, and Caius Ligarius all don’t think of him as their ideal king and they go to extreme measures to prevent him from wearing the crown, but he does have friends willing to help like Antony who would seem to be his only friend. But where does Brutus stand in all this, is he friend or foe, and to who or whom. It will be determined how Brutus’ choses made him a patriot and not a traitor.
Brutus is a good person, though people would probably say that he is a traitor because in the first act, second scene He says “I do fear, the people Choose Caesar for their king.” And that this means he doubts that Caesar would be able to be a king, but he says that not

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