Was Julius Caesar Honorable

In the movie The Dark Night Harvey Dent once articulate that, “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Unfortunately, Brutus had been an honorable man until he reached the point where he became the villain. Writing the play Julius Caesar was a man named William Shakespeare in 1599 AD. The main plot of the story is about a man named Brutus who joined a conspiracy against Caesar to stop him from being crowned, but Caesar’s friend Antony intervened. Antony craved revenge on the conspirators so he created an army to cruelly fight the betrayers. Although Brutus had been an honorable man, he had also been optimistic, gullible, and prideful, which played in part of his death. Although Brutus had been an honorable …show more content…
Brutus shows his gullible nature when he chose to interfere in the suggestion of killing Antony as well as Caesar. Although it had been honorable for Brutus to not wish for more death in their scheme it had also been foolish to not look further into the situation and assess Antony’s capabilities. Brutus just disregarded Antony like he had not been a threat in the least bit. Brutus shows wishful thinking and gullibility when he let Antony deceive him into thinking that all he planned on doing had been to give Caesar an honorable funeral speech and not talk down upon the conspirators. Consequently, Brutus only thought about what Caesar could do to Rome and thus only cared about those consequences, when he should have determined that Antony could do much worse. When Cassius suggested slaughtering Antony as well to be sure the beast had been put to silence, Brutus put it aside like it had not even been worth thinking about pronouncing, “Our course will seem to bloody, Caius Cassius, / To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, / like wrath in death and envy afterward” (2.1.162-164). It had been noble for Brutus to not wish death upon Antony with no need, but it had also been wishful to decide that he could not have much effect. In this case, Antony had not been the limb of Caesar, maybe for a short time, but Antony did much worse than Caesar ever …show more content…
Brutus shows his pride when he came to the conclusion that he would march to Philippi even though Cassius urged him not to. He had the thought about himself that he was an honorable man and he trusted himself to make the right decision. Brutus’s decision however, had not been made because he thought it was wise, but instead because he did not like to be ordered by Cassius to stay. Literally pride is the item that caused him to march into his death. he quarreled with Cassius claiming, “On such a full sea are we now afloat, / and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures“ (4.3.221-223). Pride is one fault in Brutus that caused him to make a poor decision. Pride caused Brutus to lose his head and only think about his honor and how much the people trusted him. His honor had been what lead to Brutus’s decision to join the conspiracy, and Brutus trusted his honor to get him through the next bind. Unfortunately, Brutus had been digging himself deeper into a hole. On the abominably, bloody battle field, Brutus’s one wish was to die with his honor that he so deeply cared about and to keep his pride. Caring so much about his honor, Brutus had been willing to run upon his sword instead of being killed by his enemies. Because of his pride, Brutus literally died. Brutus directly chose death because of the result to keep his honor. He uttered