The Honorable Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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The Honorable Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius 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.

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