Character Analysis of Brutus in Julius Ceasar

William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is mainly based on the assassination of Julius Caesar. The character who was in charge of the assassination was, ironically, Marcus Brutus, a friend to Julius Caesar. What would cause a person to kill a close friend? After examining Brutus' relationship to Caesar, his involvement in the conspiracy, and his importance to the plot, the truth can be revealed.

Marcus Brutus, a close friend to Caesar, has a strong relationship with Caesar, but a stronger relationship with Rome and its people. Brutus is very patriotic. He did not want Ceasar to rule Rome because of the fear of what might happen if Ceasar takes the thrown. "What means this shouting? I do fear the people do choose Caesar for their king" (act 1, i 1, l 185). Brutus says to himself, "That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face. But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. So Ceasar may." (Act 2, i 1, ll 23-27) As the quotation says, Brutus would not allow Caesar to rise to power and then turn his back onto the

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