Flavus, already disliking Caesar, only disfavored him more because of Caesar’s attempts to ruin his political career and have his father disown him, which was an insult to him. My character believes that the assassination of Julius Caesar, while horrid, resulted in a better chance of the Republic rebuilding itself out of the ashes and back to its former
He helped plan it and he was one of the people who went through with killing Caesar. Second, it was important to Cassius to protect the Republic. Along with many other people, he didn't want Rome to become a dictatorship. Third, Cassius persuades Casca, Decius, Metellus, Brutus, and Trebonius to help him murder Caesar. He must have been very passionate about Caesar dying because it would probably take a lot of convincing to get five other people to help
He has to choose between his loyalty to the Roman Republic and his loyalty to his friend. Seems like he could be heading toward tyrant status. Brutus says he killed Caesar because he loved Rome more than he loved Caesar. Based on examples in The Tragedy of Julius
After Achilles’ has left Agamemnon realizes he has made a mistake which leads to him asking for Achilles’ forgiveness to return into the war, and fight for the Greeks. Agamemnon does this so that he can try to manipulate not only Achilles’ fate, but the fates of the Trojans. Agamemnon has influenced other characters’ fates. For example, Paris and Helen. Agamemnon was held responsible for influencing Paris to fight Menelaus to hold his marriage with Helen.
Cassius was the primary planner in the killing of Caesar. He thought of the idea and came up with reasons on why the killing had to happen. He despised Caesar because he wanted freedom without a king and he wanted pompey to still be in charge of Rome. His solution was to eliminate Caesar completely. He first started by talking to other people who hated Caesar or liked Pompey better.
Joining the Conspiracy A question that has gained much attention and controversy is simply this “Should Brutus have joined the conspiracy to kill Caesar?” Many people argue on whether his reasoning dictated the right to end Caesar’s life, after all they were best friends. Some people say yes, he did justify his reasons for killing Caesar. Still others say no, he just rationalized it for himself to make it seem like it was the best and only option that he had.
Right before the play starts, Julius Caesar has just returned to Rome after a victory over Spain. The whole first part of the play is mostly about how Caesar could accept the crown and become king, which would ruin everything Rome has become. So, in order to stop that from potentially happening, Cassius convinces Caesar's very good friend, Brutus, to helphim and a bunch of other men kill Caesar. Then, Brutus makes this big speech after just murdering Caesar about how the murder was justified and his reasons for it. Carrying out Caesar’s lifeless body is Mark Antony, who also gives a speech, contradicting Brutus's speech about the justification.
He needs Brutus because Caesar does not trust any of the conspirators, but he trusts Brutus and Cassius knows this and wants Brutus to help them to get Caesar to the Capital to kill him. Brutus does not realize the letters that the
Here Cassius is trying to show Brutus that Caesar is just like him and Caesar shouldn’t be king. Brutus thinks about this and they fear about Caesar being king. Just by the words of Cassius, Brutus can be manipulated so easily, making him pretty gullible. Another thing Cassius told Brutus says, “The torrent soar’d …
The second element of a tragic hero is that they are suffering or will suffer a catastrophe during the course of the play. Brutus’s catastrophe is that formed an alliance with the conspirators and agreed to assassinate Caesar since he believed he would be doing it for the right reasons like to protect the freedom of Rome but the other conspirators assassinated Caesar for their own personal gain. “…Countrymen, my heart doth joy that yet in all my life I found no man that was true to me” (V.V. 34-35). The third element of a tragic hero is that they have a fatal flaw in some way or another. Brutus’s fatal flaw
The conspirators long thought out plan came to end when Antony started an uproar. He starts to say that he is only there to bury him not praise him, but I think we all know he had other motives. The conspirators reasons for killing Caesar were because he was too ambitious. If you barely knew Caesar you would think this is true. However a very dear friend of Caesar points out some very valid reasons as to why this accusation is false.
Do you think brutus is a tragic hero? Well he is since he has a strong relationship with Caesar, his relationship with the citizens of rome is greater. For example,” This was the noblest roman of them all the conspirators, except him did that they did out of jealousy of Caesar; Only he, in general -honest thought and common good to all, made one of them His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world,” This was a man!” This quote from act 5 shows how he was considered a tragic hero by anthony which was Caesar’s son.
Honor is knowing who and what you care about. Honor is being there for who or what you care about unless they themselves have caused you to change your opinion of them. In the play “Caesar” the most honorable character is Brutus. Shakespeare even portrays Brutus to be the most honorable by showing how he is respected by the people and can change nearly all of the senate’s opinions with his own. In the play “Caesar” Brutus is the most honorable character and Shakespeare shows many attributes that support this claim.
Brutus deserves sympathy because his wife, Portia died and he has a big responsibility on leading their army. Brutus also has to deal with Cassius selling the high positions to anyone which puts the army at risk. 2a.) Octavius and Antony argue about Lepidus because Octavius thinks he is a good man and a valiant soldier but, Anthony thinks that, “ He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, To groan and sweat under the business” (p. 885 21-22.) 2b.)
Due to his prominence in society, and his naivety, he gets defeated by the Romans, which leads to his downfall. Marcus Brutus is a noble citizen of Rome and a prominent leader who leads the conspirators in the assassination of Julius Caesar. He is naive because he thought everything in the world was good. Brutus thought no one would ever deceive him, which led to his downfall and later his defeat. Marcus Brutus exemplifies a tragic hero because he was killed because due to his tragic flaw.