i am doing an essay
2007-12-20 12:43:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
i read the book... i just didn't really get it
2007-12-20 12:50:33 · update #1
I always kind of sympathized with Brutus. I mean Ceaser was better looking, had all the power, but he was totally overrated. Brutus kind of put him in place you know.
I mean sometimes maybe the guy stabbing someone else in the back is doing it for all the right reasons!
2007-12-20 12:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, Brutus was Caesar's best friend who literally stabbed Julius in the back with a knife at the end of the play. Julius then said the famous words "ET Tu Brutus" which mean and you too Brutus. He was a tragic hero because he and the roman senate knew Julius was growing too strong and powerful, and knew he had to die before he got too powerful (hero part), however that idea caused him to have to kill his best friend (tragic part).
2007-12-20 12:50:07 · answer #2 · answered by dg2003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brutus assumed he was saving Rome from a tyrant leader. He did not want to participate in the killing of his best friend, but knew it would be best for the city and it's people. After striking the final blow that would kill Caesar, Brutus was labeled a murderer and eventually killed while still trying to protect Rome. It is tragic that he had good intent when performing his deeds just to lose his own life for the cause.
2016-05-25 05:54:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caesar had once saved Brutus fropm execution, and even gave him a position of respect and prestige in the government. Caesar trusted Brutus, viewed him as a friend. When the other senatorial conspirators came to Brutus, they played on his sense of duty, of his loyalty to Rome. Brutus reluctantly helped kill Caesar because he thought he was saving the Republic and its freedoms. Dictatorship was an ugly word to the Senate. Turns out Brutus was a sucker and it brought him personal and social shame (as well as death). Caesar's Shakesperean last words of "E tu Brute" (you too Brutus), merely was Caesar's shock and sadness that even his friend, the man who's life he had saved, would betray him in the end.
2007-12-20 12:59:51 · answer #4 · answered by william k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brutus was forced to commit suicide after trying to help Rome by assassinating Julius Caesar. This is because the Roman army still defeated him, despite having his own troops and Cassius'.
2007-12-20 12:47:39 · answer #5 · answered by New 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is a reluctant conspirator. He has to be convinced by Casius to join in. While he doesn't want Caesar to be crowned, he doesn't really want to kill him either. (I,ii, line 66 and vicinity)
The assassination triggers a civil war between those who were for and against Caesar. It is the assassins who lose that war, including Brutus. Octavian, the winner, will go on to rule the Roman empire under the name of Augustus.
Brutus is defeated in a cause he was only a reluctant participant in.
2007-12-20 12:49:08 · answer #6 · answered by dnldslk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bit dusty here, haven't thought about him in over forty years but wasn't Brutus the one who agonized over the right thing to do between remaining loyal to a tyrannical friend and duty and honor to his people the average Roman citizen/ Could be wrong here, as I said I'm a bit fuzzy but I do remember reading that one in English Lit way back when public school actually taught something.
2007-12-20 12:49:39 · answer #7 · answered by Mike S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well he didn't understand that he was on the wrong side and was being used by that guy who's name I forget. But he was trying to be a hero, and in his mind he thought he was a hero. So I guess its tragic because he didn't really deserve to die, it he had taken a step back and looked at it from an ouside view he would have realised he wasn't being a hero even though he thought he was.
2007-12-20 12:47:47 · answer #8 · answered by ♫That'll be the Day♫ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he led the silent revolt against caesar, ended up killing him, caesar never saw it coming that his trusted side man would kill him, tragic in a sense maybe that brutus saw the piteous death in caesar's eyes.
additionally, it also helps that you actually read julius caesar, like the first post says. you learn more and trust me, it will help
2007-12-20 12:47:16 · answer #9 · answered by fishman624 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a pawn. He had his ego blown up to think that he was better than his friend and it got him into a lot of hot water. So to prove himself he killed him. He thought he would be Rome's liberator and beloved. He was wrong. He was a pariah and was forced to go on the lamb.
This is the just of it anyway.
2007-12-20 12:48:44 · answer #10 · answered by caplady2003 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋