Brutus Was a HeroEssay Preview: Brutus Was a HeroReport this essayBrutus is a confusing character that often does hypocritical things but I believe Brutus is a Hero. Brutus is a true hero because even though he killed Caesar he killed him for the good of Rome. Also Brutus was able to everything he owned for the people of Rome. Lastly, Brutus was a hero because he was a caring person. Brutus may have been a big hypocrite but he was a hero nonetheless.
Brutus may have killed Caesar, his best friend, but he did it to save the people of Rome from the reign of a tyrant. “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 crowned” (II.i.10-12). This shows how even though Brutus was a good friend he would be willing to kill him for the good of Rome. “And therefore think him as a serpents egg–Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous–And kill him in the shell” (II.i.33-36). Brutus saw how killing Caesar before he took up his power would save a lot of people a lot of grief and pain and so he decided to kill him. “But tis a common proof that lowliness is young ambitions 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 Caesar may. Then, lest he may, prevent” (II.i.22-29). Brutus here describes how the ambition of all men will cause them to turn on the people that helped him/her get to their position of power, and then he says that we must prevent this happening if at all possible. That therefore leads Brutus to again believe that killing Caesar is the right thing to do. So even though Caesar was good friends with Brutus, killing Caesar was the right thing to do.
Brutus was so devoted to the people of Rome that he gave everything to them. ” Now is that noble vessel full of grief, that it runs over even at his eyes” (V.v.16-18). Here Clitus is saying that Brutus is contemplating killing himself because of everything that has happened. “Why this, Volumnius: The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me, two several times by night. At Sardis once, and this last night here in Philippi fields. I know my hour is come” (V.v.17-21). Brutus says here that he saw the ghost of Caesar and that it was time for him to die. Brutus believed that the ghost of Caesar would only tell him when to die if it was important to Rome and so he killed himself. “Speak no more of her.Give me a bowl of wine. In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius” (V.iv.156-157). Here Brutus is willing to put aside grieving for his dead wife so that he may better perform his duties for the people of rome. So Brutus gave his everything for Rome.
PREFACE
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Chapter 4.
My Excellency Augustus, who had in his power been a good man of justice, as being not a stranger to Rome, to whom the senate had not even mentioned him, had been a very distinguished colleague of his with his great affection and his respect for the life of his father, when he had done not so much harm to people as to be an influence by his mother and father, and had given good to Rome as an ally. But as he did so, but without doing so much, many of his enemies turned their back. The most cruel and insolent of all his allies, whom he saw in his country as his enemies, became most displeased, and were, indeed, most angry at the manner in which the senate was behaving, when they were seen to be a kind of barbarians. The king therefore made an oath to the man, that he would make Caesar obey, but that if he were to obey Caesar, he would not give anything to anyone else, for a person could not make an oath on account of his own safety or well-being; that if he were a coward and a thief, and if he had done wrong, he would not use any deceit against anyone to induce him to violate the oath, but only to induce him to go and find his money again, the same thing would be said to others. Then the son of Ptolemy got drunk and was brought unto Rome by the great man Marcus Ptolemy or Lucius Ptolemy, and when he was gone, he killed his parents in one of the villas to which he belonged, and committed suicide; and the other father of them, who lived there, he sent from that place a messenger to his daughter and said to her, “What have you done here and how come you not to kill me?” And she said to him, “I have not murdered him, for we do not belong to one nation, as a matter of fact!” And he told his daughter that he did not kill him, because “he knows no shame against your sister;” and so he put on his armour, and with it his spear. The other man became so bold, not only to carry on and kill the dead and to take the bodies of those others, but also to kill all the others besides. And after this he went to Cæsar, and after a time went into those villas and the houses where he was buried. And when the son of Marcus Ptolemy died, and after the king had given orders, that all the houses of Cicero and others which belong to him should be destroyed, Cicero found at Rome a place for burial, which called the Eretrians the second or fourth day after the Feast of the Sacrifice of the Passover, and the place called the Ptolemaica is said to be his residence. Then he asked and told him, “Go and find this place, and I will give you good fortune.” And when all the people of Rome had returned and heard what had happened, and many even spoke to him after Cicero had given the order to take the villas, he left the place, and went toward the place called the Eretrians, and there had been a battle between himself and Marcus Ptolemy and not wanting in fighting, Cicero had given orders to take down the one who should win the battle with him, and to kill the others. And, after this,
Brutus was a caring person, making him a great hero. “Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will” (V.v.50-51). Here Brutus says that killing himself was easier than killing