Julius Caesar Brutus Flaws

Throughout Shakespear's Julius Caesar, the reader learns a lot about the characters and their many flaws. During this play, the audience can really understand who the characters are. One character that stands out is Brutus. The audience learns of Brutus' unloyalness, unpracticalness, and pridefulness as the plot unfolds within the work. It is within the play that we see the real Brutus as he claims to love his "friend", Caesar, but brutally kills him "for the bettermnt of Rome."

One quality of Brutus is his unloyalness. Anyone who reads or watches this play easily realices this flaw. Brutus shows no way of hiding it. At the beginning of the play even Brutus knows it is wrong to kill Caesar because he has done nothing wrong. Later after slaying Caesar, Brutus declares, "Not that I loved Caesar less" (47). With this statement, Brutus claims that he loved Caesar, but if he loved Caesar so much how could he kill him? To say Caesar trusted Brutus would be an understatement. Caesar saw Brutus as not only a friend but also as family. When Brutus stabs Caesar, the final wound, and the most painful, Caesar murmurs out his last words, "Et tu, Brute!" (40). This quote is the most meaningful line of Julius Caesar because it shows how Brutus betrayed Caesar. Caesar relied on Brutus for many things and trusted him …show more content…
One element that swayed Brutus' decision to kill Caesar was when Cassius said, "I have heard where many of the best respect in Rome (except immortal Caesar) speaking of Brutus" (5). This quote made Brutus feel good about himself that the people of Rome thought highly of him. After hearing this Brutus thought that if Caesar was gone the people might put him in power. Brutus went on when talking to himself and said, " My ancestors did from the streets of Rome The Tarquin drive, when he was called a king" (20). Brutus felt that he earned and deserved something because his ancestors played a role in Roman