Arrogance In Julius Caesar Quotes Analysis

The last words spoken by Julius Caesar were “Et tu Brute? Then fall, Caesar!” These words resonate the feelings of disbelief and betrayal Julius Caesar felt the moment his trusted friend and fellow roman, Brutus came out from the shadows of his fellow conspirators to assassinate him. Though Brutus was an honorable person his flaws caused both himself and Caesar to succumb to brutal deaths. The decision by Brutus to commit this act of mutiny upon Caesar was immoral. Due to it being ultimately pointless to save the republic and, it being made out of arrogance and gullibility from Brutus. Brutus’ decision to assassinate Caesar was derived from two main faults arrogance, and gullibility. Arrogance being the strongest of the his faults, was most evident in Brutus’ soliloquy.
Whereas Brutus’ tries to act humble to Cassius, it becomes obvious that Brutus is overconfident in his soliloquy. There are examples within this soliloquy that show Brutus was predicting the future without proper evidence. He even makes statements like “So Caesar may” (II,i,27)

However this argument is invalid based on what can be inferred from the story. Though Caesar may have been arrogant he never criticized the people of Rome unlike Casca, a senator. When reading Caesar’s will, Antony says “To every Roman citizen he gives—To every several man—seventy-five drachmas.”(III,ii,232-233) This displays that Caesar loved the Roman people because, he easily could have left that money for his family instead or the Roman citizens. Furthermore a sign of a tyrant is distrust, but Caesar did not live in fear, he surrounded himself with the people that were planning to assassinate him. Though it could be argued that the power could have changed his opinions this is unlikely. Caesar was already in power at the time of his assassination and he still showed love for the Roman