Brutus’s Motivation in Julius Caesar

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar, Brutus is tricked into joining the conspirators in a plot to assassinate Caesar. However, he tries to rationalize his position in the plot by telling himself it’s for the good of the people. This makes him a tragic hero, and one that killed Caesar not out of greed, but out of love for the people and the only one that did so because the conspirators only killed Caesar because they are wealthy nobles who can get more power through his death making them greedy. Brutus had a more meaningful motivation; Brutus’s motivations were expressive of his want to act upon the wishes of the public.

The first conspirator, Cassius, realizes that they will need Brutus on their side if they are to make the assassination work properly. However, when Cassius brings up the idea, Brutus is strongly against him, and realizes that his intentions are evil. Since Cassius is desperate he decides to place fake letters from the people of Rome that urge Brutus to take action against Caesar. “ O Rome, I make thee a promise, If the redress will follow, thou receivest Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus’ ” . As soon as Brutus sees the fake letters sent from the public, he knows it his heart what he must do. He becomes determined to please the people of Rome by sacrificing his common sense and donning his assassination robes. Cassius and his fellow conspirators realize that they have an important keystone in their plan, and that they will now be able to kill Caesar and gain more power. When the conspirators arrange a meeting with Brutus to establish a plan of action against Caesar, they begin to swear to an oath of loyalty to each other. Brutus stops this, and refresh’s them about their intentions. “ If not the face of men, The sufferance of souls, the time’s abuse If these be motives weak, then break off betimes And every man hence to his idle bed ”. Brutus tells them all of the important reasons for killing Caesar are ones that they do not understand. He proceeds as if he is the only one who understands the underlying motives for assassination, and tells them that they are doing it for all the wrong reasons. Brutus is the only honourable man in the meeting that cares about Rome more than the life of a under king which he thinks would look like the time when they’re were King . It is that dear respect for the people that drives Brutus to do everything he can to make minimal deathProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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t he soon would now follow Caesar’s death.

After Brutus and Cassius and the conspirators assassinate Caesar, they confess to the public what they have done. For Brutus, his intention was honourable. “If then that friend Demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” . This is the base of Brutus’s reasoning. Brutus makes that he is the same as anyone in Rome but that he could see what Caesar would of become which was that Caesar would forget about Rome and that Brutus was the only one to step up, making himself as a courageous man. Which Brutus from the start emphasized. Cassius and the conspirators are smart, and their motivations reflect their purpose. They are with Brutus and at the same time against him. However, they are not the only enemy to Brutus. Mark Antony and his supporters seek to gain popularity by saying that Brutus murdered Caesar for his own greedy intentions.

Brutus is entirely for the removal of Caesar, but he cannot think of a way to do so that nothing regrettable will follow his assassination. However, he does have some thoughts that show his honourable motivation. “Let’s not hew him as a carcass fit for the hounds but let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods”. This quote suggests that Brutus still attained his utmost respect to Caesar while making slight reference to his god like status. He refers to the other conspirators as “butchers”, and mocks them for their want of violence. Brutus respects Caesar as a friend, and makes up ways that he could satisfy people while keeping his hand out of the destruction. However, his wishes are impossible to fulfil and he is forced to do the exact opposite of what he was planning which was to brutally kill Caesar and to justify it with nothing more than jealousy and hate. This is ironic since he loved the people and because his justifying was so weak the public was turned against him. In order to make an intelligible, logical moral decision, it is necessary to know the consequences of the actions that will be taken. Also, it is important to have valid and admirable intentions with that decision. For the conspirators, they assassinated Julius Caesar for greed; Brutus did the same dreaded action, but for the people of Rome. Thus, Brutus has a much more enduring and commendable attitude towards the assassination and its effects. One of the important factors to a tragedy is that the protagonist looks ahead to the consequences of his actions and is able to see what it would be like. Brutus does this, but feels that Rome is worth much more than one man’s ambition. But the flaw in Brutus was to allow himself in acting upon faulty information or and embedding to the views of another person for public support is the worst way to do a decision and especially when this decision is regarding on of Brutus best friends life. Brutus should of paid more attention into making a successful moral judgement.

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