An analysis of the character brutus in william shakespeares play julius caesar
Caesar realizes that there must be a noble reason for this assassination if Brutus was in it. Just allowing Brutus to speak to Caesar shows his respect for Brutus. How to cite this article: Shakespeare, William. To do otherwise would be unjust, and so would overthrow the whole nature of the enterprise as it lives in his mind.
Julius caesar play
While his good friend Brutus worries that Caesar may aspire to dictatorship over the Roman republic, Caesar seems to show no such inclination, declining the crown several times. Calpurnia invests great authority in omens and portents. Marcus Brutus was a good friend to Julius Caesar, but not good enough. And so his whole course is that of one acting on his own ideas, not on the facts that are before and around him. After Cassius raises the subject and asks for Brutus' commitment, he requests time to think the matter over, and a month later, speaking alone in his orchard, he reveals that he has since thought of little else. Decius leads Caesar right into the hands of the conspirators. Brutus is very close to Caesar. That they will do this is the very thing which he has in fact no reason to conclude; notwithstanding, because it is so in his idea, therefore he trusts that the conspirators will "be called purgers, not murderers. And what a rare significance attaches to the brief scene of Brutus and his drowsy boy Lucius in camp a little before the catastrophe!Brutus later hears that Portia has killed herself out of grief that Antony and Octavius have become so powerful. He chooses personal honor over a strict adherence to an abstract philosophy.
He is swift to do that by which he thinks his country ought to be benefited. Coleridge has a shrewd doubt as to what sort of a character Shakespeare meant his Brutus to be.
He is unable to see through the roles being played by Cassius, Casca, and Antony. On the whole, it is not wonderful that Brutus should have exclaimed, as he is said to have done, that he had worshiped virtue and found her at last but a shade.
Yet this very delusion serves, apparently, to ennoble and beautify him, as it takes him and works upon him through his virtues.
And yet the character of Brutus is full of beauty and sweetness.
Also, if Brutus was not in the play, the whole end of the play would not ever occur.