Brutus develops as the most complex character in Julius Caesar and is also the play's tragic legend. In his …show more content…
In the realm of the play, where self-serving desire appears to overwhelm all other inspiration, Brutus satisfies Antony's elegiac portrayal of him as "the noblest of Romans." However, his dedication to standard more than once drives him to make miscounts: needing to shorten savagery, he overlooks Cassius' proposal that they should execute Antony and Caesar. In another snippet of gullible optimism, he again disregards Cassius' recommendation and allows Antony to speak a funeral oration over Caesar's body. Therefore, Brutus relinquishes the power of having the last word on the homicide and accordingly allows Antony to actuate the plebeians to revolt against him and other conspirators. Brutus later jeopardizes his great association with Cassius without anyone else's input honestly censuring what he sees as despicable fund-raising tactics on Cassius' part. In these scenes, Brutus carries on a longing to restrict the self-serving parts of his actions; ironically, however, in every incident he fates the very cause that he looks to advance, in this way serving nobody by any