Overview
What does Brutus do?
In simple terms, Brutus is an online or remote password cracker. More specifically it is a remote interactive authentication agent. Brutus is used to recover valid access tokens (usually a username and password) for a given target system. Examples of a supported target system might be an FTP server, a password protected web page, a router console a POP3 server etc. It is used primarily in two contexts :
To obtain the valid access tokens for a particular user on a particular target.
To obtain any valid access tokens on a particular target where only target penetration is required.
What is a target?
Well that depends on you. As far as Brutus is concerned a target is a remote system and possibly a remote user on a remote system, there is more. To engage any given target we require an attack method, generally we only perform one type of remote attack - that is we attempt to positivley authenticate with the target by using a number of access token combinations. A target may provide no available attack methods, it may provide one or it may provide several.
What is an attack method?
In the context of Brutus, it is a service provided by the target that allows a remote client to authenticate against the target using client supplied credentials. For instance a UNIX server sat on a network somewhere may be offering Telnet and FTP services to remote users. Both telnet and FTP require the remote user to authenticate themselves before access is granted. For both these services the required credentials are usually a username and a password, therefore we have two available attack methods : FTP or Telnet. Some target systems will provide no opportunity for attack (at least not a remote authentication attack), perhaps they offer no remote services, perhaps they only offer anonymnous remote services (that require no authentication) or perhaps they offer authenticated remote services but use mechanisms to prevent authentication attacks such as account lockout or one time passwords of some sort.
Which attack method is best?
Again, that depends on some factors which may include :
Is the target service available to any remote system? (Yes is good)
Does the target service require a single token (e.g. just a password) or multiple tokens (e.g. Username & password & domain?) (Single tends to be easier)
Does the target service feature account lockouts or large delays before returning the result of the authentication attempt?
Brutus appears to be a selfless, thoughtful man who only wants the best for Rome, and is tormented by his fears towards Caesar ruling Rome.
From Act 1 scenes 2 and 3 we learn most about the character of Brutus
The character of Brutus in Shakespeare’s epic play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar undertakes a great fall from his position as a well-loved senator. Brutus was a man of the common populace. After Caesar’s assassination, he is considered a traitor to the Romans. A man unaware of his follies until the end, Brutus is manipulated and used by the conspirators to achieve their own goals. However, throughout the course of this play, he remains loyal to the Roman people and what he believes to be their opinions. Brutus, a loyal man of the Roman Republic, is most definitely a tragic hero.
The first element of a Shakespearean tragedy is the requirement of a tragic hero. This tragic hero must be a person of nobility whose moral decisions will influence society in one way or another. He or she has some sort of tragic flaw and is forced to make a decision at some point that will lead to his or her suffering and death. In Julius Caesar, you can see that Brutus meets these requirements. For example, a Plebian (citizen of Rome) says, "The noble Brutus is ascended. Silence!" (3.2.11). When looking for a tragic flaw in Brutus, we find many - he is easily influenced, has difficulty in looking ahead, is too proud for capture, is naïve to the whole picture, and has split loyalties. I believe the flaw that has the greatest influence on Brutus and his decisions is that he is easily influenced. Because of the strong influences others have on Brutus, the conspirators easily persuade him to make decisions he probably wouldn't have otherwise made...
Act2.SC.1). In addition to this Brutus shows his ambition when news of Octavious and Mark. Brutus immediately wants to go to Philippi to meet their army there. Yet Cassius provides words of wisdom telling him, “Tis better that the enemy seek us; so shall he waste his means, and weary his soldiers… /whilst we, lying still are now full of rest, defense, and nimbleness.” (Cassius 4.3 229-232). Brutus chooses to ignore this and urges once again to march to Phillipi, Cassius gives in and they both decide to go. Brutus’ ambition will lead to his downfall for as we know his ambition will lead him to his death, for ...
Brutus is primarily motivated by his utilitarian ideals, causing him to have a weak, uncertain approach relative to Antony. Antony’s counter-conspiracy is driven by his emotional attachment to Caesar and desire to avenge him, giving him a powerful, instinctual base to operate from. As Brutus is considering an assassination of Caesar, he states, “It must be by his death; and for my part,/ I know no personal cause to spurn at him,/ But for the general” (Shakespeare II.i.10-12). By considering the absence of personal incentives for the planned attack on Caesar, Brutus reveals fickleness in his motives by giving himself a second option. He is inspired to participate in the conspiracy by his utilitarian ideals, while concurrently, he doubts himself by considering his lack of personal conflict with Caesar. This weakness is further exposed following the planning of Caesar’s as...
Throughout most of the play Brutus is constantly internally conflicted. Does he do what he believes is best for Rome or stay loyal to his friend and leader? Should he assist in the murder of one person to benefit many? Although killing Caesar was in the end a bad choice, Brutus always tries to do what is best for Rome and for the people. However even though all of Brutus’ motives are good he still has the tragic flaw of pride, which ultimately leads to his downfall. The reason that Brutus gets caught up in the conspiracy is because Cassias appeals to his pride and flatters him with forged letters from the Roman people saying he is a greater leader then Caesar.
In deciding whether or not a person is good, all of their characteristics must be looked at.
The moment Brutus started to question if he should be in the conspiracy it was no good but when he decided to actually join it to kill Caesar it was a bad choice and a choice that in the end lead to his death. “And therefore think him as a serpent's egg/ Which hatched, which as his kind grow mischievous,/ And kill him in the shell.” (2.1.32-34). Brutus is saying that Caesar would be a dangerous man once he gets power and once he gets the crown and hatches from his shell he will be poison, so they need to kill him before he gains power. That moment is when Brutus decides to join the conspiracy. Does he say those things thinking they are actually true? Or does he say those things because it is being fed to him and the people feeding it to him he trusts so he starts believing it himself? He trusts those men in the conspiracy and wants to best for Rome so he joins and helps kill Caesar. When Brutus decides to join the conspiracy it is leading to his death because he starts to make all the decisions for the men in the conspiracy and does not listen to anyone else's ideas. He is trusting his own ideas so much that when someone else comes up with something he does not let them get there way and he gets his way. For example the men all believed that when they kill Caesar they should also kill Antony. They think that Antony will get the power after Caesar is dead so they also want him dead so
...thing else. The threat that Caesar poses was that he would begin moving away from the idea of a Roman republic and towards an Empire ruled directly by him. Brutus is complex because he does not kill Caesar for greed, envy, or to preserve his social position like so many of the other conspirators against Caesar, he does it for the good of the people. Once Brutus has made up his mind he sticks to it, and he is rarely questioned. Brutus is very accustomed to having his way without argument, which explains why he rarely listens to anyone else.
Brutus has several tragic flaws. One of these tragic flaws is how he trusts people a lot. Brutus says that he “know[s] that we shall have [Antony] well to a friend” (1140). He trusts Antony will be a friend of the conspirators, yet he seems to not realize that Antony is obliviously against them, because they killed his friend. Brutus trusts Antony so much, that he lets Antony speak to the public alone. Antony turns the people against Brutus and the conspirators, leading to the wars where Brutus takes his own life. Brutus also receives letters, supposedly from the people of Rome. As he reads the letter out loud, Brutus remarks “‘Speak, strike, redress!’ Am I entreated to speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise, if thy redress will follow, thy receivest thy full petition at the hand of Brutus” (1118).
hatches (or is crowned king ) he will be more dangerous. Brutus is smart enough to know
I believe Brutus is a villain. The fine line that distinguishes a person as either a hero or a villain, or even a good and a bad person, is unclear. That makes the play so very unique. You, the reader, have to figure it out for yourself. Since I believe he is a villain, I have to have clear reasons to think so: he killed a man. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Brutus’s claim was that Caesar’s flaw was his ambition, and he also said that his
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The play Julius Caesar depicts Brutus to be an extremely noble being who is well respected and honored by all Romans, even his enemies. Brutus was a loving friend of Julius Caesar and wished anything but death on his comrade, but his love and dedication to the majestic city of Rome would force him to commit anything. He fights a war to defend Rome from a king or emperor's tyrannical rule. When the war was finished, even his enemies saw that he was the most respectable Roman of them all.