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Chansel Minick
English II
Mr. Mooneyham
March 27, 2015
Character Analysis
The play Julius Caesar is a well-known play about a ruler of Rome being stabbed to death
by some men of Rome known as the conspirators. The main conspirators are Brutus and Cassius;
they were the leaders of the whole thing. One thing that was different was Cassius started the
conspiracy over jealousy or hatred. Brutus however joined for the fellow people of Rome; he
thought that he was saving the people of Rome from a tyrant. Brutus was a very noble man who
had good intentions with all his choices. He also was very nave, thinking everyone was as
honest as him. He still should have never joined the conspiracy knowing everything that was
going to come from theirs actions.
Brutus is very nave, having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of
artificiality, to the point that he was tricked into joining the conspiracy. Brutus was convinced to
join the conspiracy by the way Cassius is making Caesars god like figure seem not so noble.
Cassius had to make Brutus want to join because then it would seem less like a regular murder
because Brutus and Caesar were good friends. But I still feel that he should have never joined.
For once, upon a raw and gusty day, the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Caesar said to
me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, and swim to yonder point?'
Upon the word, Accoutered as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The
torrent roard, and we did buffet it with lusty sinews, throwing it aside and stemming it with
hearts of controversy; but ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius,

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or I sink!' I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old
Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar. And this man is now become a
god (Shakespeare, 32).
Since Brutus is so nave, having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of
artificiality, that makes him easily fooled when someone tells him something. Cassius tricked
Brutus in to joining the conspiracy by writing letters acting like townsmen wanting Caesar gone.
'Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself. Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress! Brutus,
thou sleep'st: awake!' Such instigations have been often dropp'd, where I have taken them up.
'Shall Rome &c.' thus must I piece it out: Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?
My ancestors did from the streets of Rome the Tarquin drive; when he was call'd a king. 'Speak,
strike, redress!' Am I entreated to speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise: If the redress
will follow, thou receivest Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus! (Shakespeare 66). After
reading those letters Brutus felt that Caesar was becoming a problem after Cassius and
townspeople inferring that he was a tyrant. After Brutus read the note he was drawn in to
joining the conspiracy. It must be by his death: and for my part, I know no personal cause to
spurn at him, but for the general. He would be crown'd: how that might change his nature, there's
the question (Shakespeare 62).
Although Brutus was very nave and easily fooled, he had good intentions for everything
he did especially killing Caesar. Brutus joined the conspiracy in the first place for the wellbeing
of the other romans. He felt that if he joined the conspiracy he could stop Caesar from gaining
the crown and hurting the other people of Rome. The other conspirators on the other hand did it
for their wellbeing not others. Even when Brutus killed himself he didnt do it out of fright he
did it to set things straight with everyone. This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the

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conspirators save only he did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a 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!' (Shakespeare
218).
Even though Brutus always had good intentions it was still wrong to join the conspiracy.
Brutus should have never joined the conspiracy even though he thought it was the right thing to
do. Brutus being as noble as he as he was he should have known that the consequences would
have come back and got him as well as all the other conspirators. But I feel that Brutus did the
right thing when he took his life because he set things straight with everything and everyone.
Brutus was a very nave person he thought everyone was just as honest as he was.
Although, Brutus was nave everything he did had good intentions even when it came to killing
himself or killing Caesar. He was also still easily fooled especially when Cassius tricked him into
joining the conspiracy. But I still dont think he should have ever joined the conspiracy knowing
his consequences.