Final Assessment Julius Caesar Essay
“And kill him in the shell” (Brutus, page 64, line 34) In this soliloquy, Brutus notices that Julius Caesar must be killed before he will use all his power against Rome. Brutus knew the assassination of Caesar would be the better of Rome and takes different actions to get closer of his assassination. Brutus the man that only cared about his country Rome was led by his patriotism and honorable nature to assassinate Caesar.
The patriotism spirit guided Brutus to take actions to save Rome. He only had Rome in his mind, and cared about the people. “It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, but for the general” (Brutus, page 62, line 10). In Brutus’s soliloquy, Brutus starts to understand more about Caesar and predicts possibilities of how Caesar may use his power. In his final decision, he knows that the assassination will suit for Rome and Caesar. Caesar being murdered and Brutus held a funeral speech for the conspirators. “Not that I love Caesar less but that I loved Rome more” (Brutus, page 128, line 20). In Brutus’s funeral speech, he talks about reasons of his murder of Caesar. Here, he exclaims that the love of Caesar was less than Rome. Brutus murdered Caesar because countrymen will earn freedom and be happy for the rest of their lives. The actions he took towards Rome were led by his patriotism which makes Rome honor him.
Brutus takes honorable actions towards Rome. Brutus always takes action for Rome to make them respect him. “Our course will seem to bloody Caius Cassius…” (Brutus, page 74, line 62). From this passage, Brutus takes away leadership of the conspirators from Cassius. All the conspirators including Cassius followed Brutus’s commands and started to respect him as a leader. Conspirators brought away Antony from the capitol, interpreted Calpurnia’s dream and other events that respects Brutus. After the murder of Caesar, Brutus started a funeral speech. “Be patient till the last. Romans, countrymen, and lovers…” (Brutus, page 128, line 12) Brutus held a funeral speech for Rome to exclaim about the causes of the murder of Caesar. During the speech Rome was quiet and respected him because it was an important speech about their great leader Caesar. Brutus carefully took honorable actions, and trying not to take dishonorable actions. He wanted to have respect from Rome and others, to earn more power for him and for everyone to love him. Honorable thoughts swayed Brutus to make Rome respect him.
Brutus thinks Caesar must be assassinated for Rome and for his friends. Brutus’s actions were controlled by the characteristics of patriotism and honorable. Brutus being led by these motivators, he has achieved his goal but not as he wanted to. He wanted to assassinate Caesar boldly, but eventually Caesar was murdered as a carcass fit for hounds. Brutus regretting of what he has done, he sacrifice himself. I believe this goal was both noble and worthy. The goal was noble because Brutus was able to earn honor and power from Rome and the conspirators. The goal was also worthy because Caesar was dead and Rome earned freedom. In ‘Julius Caesar’, Brutus was led by his different character that made him care about Rome, which were patriotism and honorable.
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