Julius Caesar Friendship Essay

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Brutus had a good friendship with Caesar and then happened to Brutus died because he killed himself and he died in Philippi, accident Rome. He was 43 years old.

Brutus died in Philippi, at the last scene Brutus seat with his few remaining men after him talk with Cassius. He asks them to hold his sword for him so that he may run against it and killed himself at that time. He is proud himself of his reputation for honor in his life to be a leader of Rome after Caesar died had killed under his hand.

He is a leading conspirator in the assassination of Rome and he committed suicide after his defeat at the second battle of Philippi. Brutus just want to be a king in Rome so he killed Caesar and told the audience Caesar needed to die if he rule,
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He and Caesar is had friendship for a long time. Though Brutus did not have more forces against Caesar, he is very smart and uses all kinds of ways to stand up to the Romans’ expectation and worked out his role honorably. Brutus tell the audience to trust him, he killed Caesar is a right way for Rome. Brutus said, “Believed me for mine honor, and have respect too mine honor, that you may believed...” He mean he just killed Caesar to bring a good future to Rome. “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”Brutus said too all audience too let them know even him love Caesar so much but he need too killed him.

In his speech, though the audience, he convince too the audience to let them understood and believed in what he say. When he said his speech, he uses simple words to appeal for the audience. Brutus was not selfish like everyone else in the conspirators, he just wanted to talk about his main reasonings and show everyone what he want. He made every effort to gain the trust of the people in Rome.

At the end, he realized his ways of seeing the people around him was wrong and not everyone love Rome as much as he does, and this led to Civil War. Brutus realized too late and he decided that his punishment is the death penalty and that he had himself committed

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