The Abuse Of Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Those who disagree with me may say Brutus was trying to do what was best for Rome. It's his thinking that once Caesar had power he would abuse it, as many do. This was his attempt to save Rome from a power-hungry, enslaving ruler. However Brutus said himself that: "[he has] not known when [Caesar's] affections swayed more than his reason.” This shows that Caesar has never shown any signs of unrighteous dominion before. And we know that Caesar is already in a position of power by the way everyone seems to adore him at the race in the beginning. In addition, we know he has an army to defeat Pompey(who is his son in law) and so on and so forth. Others may point out that Antony himself stated: "This was the noblest Roman of them all.” in reference to Brutus. May I just say that this was after Brutus is already dead, and that he meant out of the conspirators. Antony was honoring Brutus' life, the life of someone who loved Rome. The one he actually thought was the noblest, is of course Caesar, as shown when he says: "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man …show more content…
While I know he was trying to be good to Rome when he killed Caesar, he didn't think ahead and realize that not everyone would see his way. He should have known that most of the people liked Caesar and would have been very upset by his death. Including his adoptive son and heir Octavian, who has an army. The resulting war killed thousands. Definitely didn't think very much. Then, to top it all off, Brutus ends up feeling guilty, at least in the play he does. Brutus says: "Caesar, now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.” Which translated and paraphrased means you have been avenged now Caesar, I wasn't as willing to kill you as I was to kill myself. Thus, however you put it, he didn't even fully approve of what he did in the first place and definitely didn't approve of it