The Destruction Of Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Imagine yourself being surrounded by people who think you're a monster. In your heart and mind you know you're innocent. The hoards of people try to tear at your soul and drag you down. Nothing you say could ever make them understand, you are trapped. The loneliness, ignorance, and despair is all so overwhelming. This is what Brutus endured to an extent, at first everyone was on his side. Then there was a sudden shift and the citizens wanted him deceased. “If thou consider rightly of the matter, Caesar has had great wrong.” They all went against Brutus because they believed he was far from innocent and the acts he committed were unjust and cruel. Some readers do believe that Brutus was disloyal and arrogant. They think that Brutus killed …show more content…
This certainly describes Brutus perfectly, he is proud of his country and wishes to protect it. “I would not, Cassius. Yet I love him well. But wherefore do you hold me here so long? What is it that you would impart to me? If it be aught toward the general good,Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently,For let the gods so speed me as I love. The name of honor more than I fear death.” Brutus was a loving,caring, and strong-willed. He wasn't a hateful or crude person, he was cautious and understanding very far from an envious/vicious killer. “It’ll look like we killed Caesar out of anger and Mark Antony out of envy. Let’s be sacrificers but not butchers, Caius. We’re all against what Caesar stands for, and there’s no blood in that. Oh, how I wish we could oppose Caesar’s spirit—his overblown ambition—and not hack up Caesar himself! But, unfortunately, Caesar has to bleed if we’re going to stop him. Noble friends, let’s kill him boldly but not with anger. Let’s carve him up like a dish fit for the gods, not chop him up like a carcass fit for dogs. Let’s be angry only long enough to do the deed, and then let’s act like we’re disgusted by what we had to