The Jealousy Of Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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You can also see that even Antony, one of Brutus biggest rivals and the reason why he died, viewed him as good and noble Roman. In Act five Scene five after Antony and the other men find out that Brutus died, they treat him honorably as Brutus saw him self. Antony recognizes him as “the noblest Roman of them all” and that he’s the only one who killed Caesar because he loved him and that the rest were just jealousy of him “This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the rest of the conspirators acted out of jealousy of great Caesar. Only he acted from honesty and for the general good.” Octavius in the same scene orders everyone to respect Brutus dead boy and that it should be treated as the honorable man that he was and that it should be buried

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