The Honor Of Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Friends, Romans, today we speak to beg the question of why the noble Brutus has no monument to his name yet Caesar and Marc Anthony do. Noble men indeed but why is Brutus, the true character of Rome who embodied the honor of Rome and did everything he thought he could do to better Rome. Brutus deserves to have a show of his honor since he was part of the heart and spirit of Roman ideals, he had the cunning to survive in the senate, the strength to best any man in battle, and he put his honor and the good of Rome before everything else even his personal mindset for the honor and love of his homeland. He loved his best friend and enjoyed the success of Caesar’s rise to fame but his friend wouldn’t listen or stop before he had complete control …show more content…
Caesar had discarded the senate, rose up to power and ignored everything, thus being too arrogant and leaving the only logical thing for him to do was to was become king of Rome and then the entire Empire, slowly oppressing the people and turning the Empire into a depressing sad honor less place that centers around one man rather than his people. “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” Brutus even admits that Caesar would have turned everyone into slaves whether they realized it or not turning the empire on himself, an Empire with a man too arrogant to ignore his wife, a soothsayer and the priest should not lead Rome without listening to his advisors and his wife, Calphurnia Even the priest and soothsayers predicted it “Beware the Idles of March”, spoke the soothsayer, the priest’s omens weren’t much better, “They would not have you to stir forth today. Plucking the entrails of an offering forth, They could not find a heart within the beast.” Caesar’s arrogance lead to his death by not heeding the warnings a lot like a child of his