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Term Paper Title	Essay # 2: Brutus
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Essay # 2: Brutus

Consider Brutus’s actions. Is he right to join the conspiracy against Caesar? What are his reasons? Does he join the conspiracy, or is he tricked by Cassius? How do Cassius’s motivations compare to Brutus’s? Are they nobler or less noble?

          In the play “Julius Caesar” Brutus, tricked by Cassius, joins the conspiracy against Caesar and kills him. In some ways he was right to join and in others he wasn’t. Brutus and Cassius had different motivation for joining the conspiracy; Brutus’s were more political.

          Brutus was a loyal friend and joining the conspiracy sort of gave the audience a sense of a disloyal friend. He was wrong to join the conspiracy and shouldn’t have killed Caesar. Evan though Brutus had right reason for joining the conspiracy, and killing Caesar, it was not right to turn against a friend.

          Envious of Caesar’s growing popularity, Cassius probed to discover where Brutus’ deepest sympathies lay. He voiced a concern he had: Caesar was becoming overly “ambitious.” Unless something was done to check his fame, he would soon seize all power for himself. This could, effectively, turn the Roman Republic into a dictatorship. Cassius then apprised Brutus of a plot he had hatched: he had a band of other prominent Romans were planning to assassinate Caesar.

          Brutus admitted that he shared the same inner concern: “I do fear the people choose Caesar for their...

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