


                              Essay on Caesar

     In Shakespeare's play of "Caesar" Brutus is a conspirator

who portrays a person who favors a republic for Rome.

Brutus is an honorable man. Many characters in the play show

there reverence for Brutus. Brutus exemplifies his honor in many

ways. Brutus is obsequious when he is needed to abet his fellow

romans.

     Brutus is an honorable man. "Am I entreated to Speak and

Strike? O Rome I make thee promise, If the redress will follow,

then receivest thy full petition at the hand of Brutus"

(Shakespeare 397). Brutus will obey to whatever the romans convey

to him. Consequently, Brutus joins the conspiracy inorder to

help the romans rid rome of Caesar. Brutus also understands that

he is putting it all on the line for his romans, therefore Brutus

is an honorable man. 

     Brutus is a scrupulous man, whose virtues endure. "No not an

oath, If not by the face of men, the sufferance of our souls, the

time's abuse-If these motives be weak, break off betimes, and

every men hence to his idle bed; So let high sighted tyranny rage

 on, till each man drop by lottery" (Shakespeare 399). Brutus

said that if the conspirators do not join for a common cause,

then there is no need for an oath because the conspirators are

self-righteous, and they are serving the romans. If the

conspirators don't bind together, then each man will go his own

way, become a weakling, and die when it suits the tyrants

caprice. Brutus is advocates peace, freedom and liberty, for all

romans, which shows that Brutus is an altruistic as well as an

honorable man.

     Brutus also had a compassion for Caesar when he had killed

Caesar. "If then that a friend demand why Brutus rose against

Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that

I loved Rome more" (Shakespeare 421). Brutus had honored Caesar

but Brutus felt that Caesar was to ambitious. Brutus also felt
that Caesar made the romans as slaves. Therefore, Brutus is an

honorable man.

     Brutus is a noble man who was revered by many. Brutus had

joined the conspiracy because he had the desire to help the

commoners. He was a follower of idealism, where the romans would

possess peace, liberty and freedom. Brutus wanted the kill

Caesar, because he believed that all of the people of Rome would

eventually be slaves, thus Brutus resorted to the assassination

of Caesar. Brutus is a honorable man.
