Brutus vs Nobility
As the stage curtain begins its gentle voyage across the lonely, faded wood floors of the Globe Theater, one Marcus Antonius weeps softly over the body of his fallen hero. He sighs quietly, looks Decius Brutus in his empty eyes and proclaims, "This was the noblest Roman of them all.", a statement that is both poetic and rhetoric, but surely holds little more truth than a teaspoon does water. This statement was made on an instant of regret, jealously, haste, and above all, pity. Brutus was consistently a weak character throughout the tragedy of Julius Caesar, and deserves no more respect than the tyrant himself. Brutus was poor husband, a vindictive friend, emotionally unstable, and a cold-blooded, lying, deceiving traitor. Firstly but not fore mostly, Brutus was a terrible husband to Portia. When she attempted to converse with him and discover what has been plaguing his being, he lashes out at her, asking, "what mean you?"(2.1 234), and then quickly snapping again at her saying, "I am not well in health, that is it. Go to bed!"(2.1 257) How, I ask you, can a ma
The last determining factor in the destruction of Brutus' crown of nobility is his blatant hypocrisy. Not only did he kill his best friend only hours after saying there was really no cause for it, he did the same to himself. Brutus steadfastly agreed with Julius that suicide was an act of fear and weakness, that death is a bidding of the gods and, "will come when it will come." (2.2 37) For, "only cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once." (2.2 32) However, it is quite obvious that Brutus lived his own death over many times before the act was committed as he gave indication of by his plan, one which made him appear to not only having died at the hands of another man, but in battle. Now, could a man who lies through his teeth to make up for his own moral insecurity truly be that noble? Why would a man so noble depend upon suicide to escape from the treachery of the enemy, who would have surely delivered unto him a noble death? Brutus was a coward, a liar, and would not even give his adversaries the dignity of killing him
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Approximate Word count = 725
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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