Was Julius Caesar Honorable

During the reign of Julius Caesar, one’s actions and ideas usually determined that person’s nobility. For some, their actions would lead to others thinking that they are very noble. For others, their actions would be determined as dishonorable or shameful. The level of how honorable that person was would also determine their place in society, and how others would regard them when in their presence. In the play Julius Caesar, Brutus was honorable due to the fact that he was the only one of the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar for the good of Rome, and not due to envy.
The word noble signifies that a person “ [has, shows, or comes] from personal qualities that people admire (such as honesty, generosity, courage,etc.)” (Merriam-Webster, “noble”). With that being said, Brutus is very honorable due to the fact that he is greatly admired by many men for his quiet and stoic demeanor, as well as by stating that he loves “the name of honor more than [he fears] death” (Shakespeare 1.2). Some may say that Brutus wasn’t honorable because he killed his greatest friend, Julius Caesar, as well as pointing out that Mark Antony kept on saying “the noble Brutus” and “Brutus is an honorable man” repeatedly throughout his …show more content…
Yet, Mark Antony even admitted to everybody in the end that Brutus was “the noblest Roman of them all” ( 5.5 ) and had him buried “according to his virtue...with all respect and rites…most like a soldier,