What were Brutus and Cassius' Motivation for Conspiracy? Brutus and Cassius murder Caesar and begin a conspiracy against his leadership of Rome for both selfish and selfless reasons, Brutus being the selfless one and Cassius the selfish. In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar there is a variety of conspiracy, war and destruction of friends and colleagues. Marcus Brutus and Gais Cassius conspire against Julius Caesar the current leader and proposed tyrant of Rome. Brutus conspired against his friend Julius Caesar out of loyalty, love and patriotism to his country and his people. Whereas Cassius began a conspiracy against his leader out of greed and selfishness, to gain superiority and full control over Rome to hold the high level of leadership …show more content…
This quote therefore shows that Cassius is in a way disappointed in himself, allowing Caesar to take control and become an almighty figure, so one of his aims and motivations is to take back what he so easily allowed to be taken. Cassius' motives are therefore based completely upon his hatred and envy of Caesar and his god like figure upon Rome and the attention of a hero being welcomed home. So Cassius kills Caesar to hopefully gain the heroes glory Caesar had received from the people of Rome. This similarly relates to Scar's motives from The Lion King, he kills his brother to gain the power he is convinced that he deserves under the belief that he can do better, but in actual fact the citizens hate him for it and he fails leaving his domain in crisis. Aside from the fact that Scar is Mufasa's brother, this story completely relates to Cassius' motives within the …show more content…
The undoubted similar reason they both held is their fear for Caesars rising power and his tight grasp upon the citizens of Rome. Although roughly a similar reason, the deeper motivation behind the reasoning is that Brutus doesn't fear Caesars power for the same reason as Cassius. As shown in this quote, "What means this shouting? I do fear the people choose Caesar for their king," he simply fears that Caesar will abuse his power and dictate over Rome, and so kills him in protection of his people. On the other hand cassius fears Caesars power just as Brutus does, however contrary to Brutus, for selfish reasoning. "What’s so special about caesar?", This quote shows how much Cassius despises Caesar and how he feels he is no better of a man than Brutus or himself. They both had a common goal but were not sure of each other's very different and clashing reasons for attempting to reach the goal ahead. Cassius seemed to have been a puppet master and conductor of the conspiracy twisting things to suit his own preferences, and to rise against a super power in order to achieve his ultimate goal. The differences in motivation between Brutus and Cassius vividly reflect their morals, just as their morals reflect back upon their reasons. Brutus holds Caesar (his friend) in high
What— did one of us strike down the most powerful man in the world in order to support robbers? Should we now dirty our fingers with lowly bribes and sell the mighty offices that we hold for whatever gold we can get our hands on? I'd rather be a dog and howl at the moon that be that kind of Roman.” (Shakespeare 169) Brutus is painfully obvious (at least he is from Cassius’ point of view) when he confides to Cassius that he believes that Cassius wasnt as honest about what his intent and motives for killing Caesar were.
Therefore, Brutus did it for the good of Rome, he thought of everyone unlike Cassius. Considering that he tricked Brutus into joining the conspirators. Cassius did everything for himself, he did nothing for the good of others. Cassius is the least honorable in behalf of how he wanted to kill Caesar. Cassius has been a individual who wanted to kill Caesar because he didn't like him; then, he didn’t want him to rule Rome.
Cassius and Brutus’ lives both end by suicide in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Throughout Julius Caesar we are shown how Brutus and Cassius were true friends because they show loyalty, love and trust. Loyalty is a big way of showing true friendship with someone. ”Come, Anthony, and young Octavius, come; Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is aweary of the world, Hated by one he loves, braved by his brother,’(4, 2, 144-147). In this Cassius is saying Anthony and Octavius should just come and kill him.
Brutus and the senators had made a plan to kill Caesar. Even though Caesar was his friend, Brutus joins the conspiracyagainst Caesar’s life because he feels that Caesar’s death is better for Rome. Brutus did not want to allow Caesar to rise to power and turn his back onto the people of Rome. Brutus felt like Caesar was being a dictator. “Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, And kill him in a shell” (2,1,33-34) Similar to how Cady, Janice and Damian made a plan to destroy Regina.
How do politics affect relationships? A quote from Thomas Jefferson states, “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend” (Jefferson). Thomas Jefferson asserts that differences in opinions, in this case politics, should not affect personal relationships. However, this may prove true in some cases, politics can have both negative and positive effects on relationships.
When Brutus was talking to the conspirators Brutus was going back and forth think if he should help the conspirators kill Julius Caesar. He was going back and forth because he was thinking of the power he could have and could rule Rome. The reason behind Brutus killing Caesar was for the better of Rome. If Brutus would not have killed Caesar, Rome would have turned into a dictatorship, and in turn it would have ruined Rome and all of its people. Brutus did not kill Julius just for the power to rule Rome, he killed Julius to save Rome from Caesar’s dictatorship.
And while Brutus did work in part with other conspirators, which eventually led to him killing Caesar, he did it for a more morally sound reason which was that Caesar was going to cause the downfall of Rome because he was too ambitious, which is ironic because Caesar's death led to a string of unfit leaders, and civil unrest that eventually led to the downfall of the roman empire. Brutus was also focused on preventing corruption. “The name of Cassius honors this corruption,/ And chastisement doth therefore hide his head (IV.iii.15-6)... Remember March, the ides of March remember./ Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake” (IV.iii.18-9).
Brutus believes that Caesar will do more harm than good to the people, and reap benefits for himself. Brutus has already said this, but had said it in his own words, (II, i, 12-14). He has no clue if Caesar will use his power for the good and betterment for the people, or use it for his own needs and other
He would have rather watched himself die a thousand deaths than to watch his city in peril. Cassius helped talk Brutus into killing Caesar over jealousy. Brutus only went along with the idea because he knew that Caesar was an improper ruler for rome and its people. Brutus put his city and its people n front of him and that was his tragic flaw. Since brutus put his city before himself t stopped him from thinking what was the best himself.
First, it is the idealism. Brutus is the idealist in the book who has perfect like with beautiful house and beautiful wife. Thus, he believes that the world could be idealistic too. Therefore, he chooses to kill Caesar for idealistic Rome without a leader who overpowers the citizens. Cassius understands Brutus’ idealism and uses it to destroy Caesar.
In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the person most responsible for the death of Julius Caesar is Cassius, he started the conspiracy and developed the plan of how to manipulate and convince Brutus to kill Caesar and lead Rome. While it may look like Brutus was the one responsible for his death, it was Cassius who made him think that he needed to that by slipping fake letters into his room. Cassius began the rebellion against Caesar, and then developed a plan to make Brutus think he need to kill Caesar and become the leader, and finally as well as the other conspirators, Cassius contributed to stabbing Caesar. TS 1: in the beginning of the story we are introduced to the conspirators, who are lead by Cassius and we discover that they are determined to destroy Caesar. In the beginning of the play Cassius is trying to convince Brutus that there is nothing special about Caesar, he is “Like a Colossus, and [they] petty men Walk under his huge legs”(I, II, 137).
I think that Cassius is the enemy because he wants Brutus to kill Julius. Cassius also tries to manipulate Brutus to killing Julius. Cassius states, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (L.iii.141-142). I chose this quote because this is something Cassius would say to manipulate Brutus.
Lucius Junius Brutus was an ancestor to Brutus and Brutus doesn't want to let down his ancestor by letting Caesar destroy the Republic. Everybody knows people don't want to let down their ancestors even if they're dead. Brutus is a very loyal person and knows he has to be loyal to his family's name by joining the conspiracy to kill Caesar. The letters that Cassius forged convince Brutus to join the conspiracy.
Cassius influenced Brutus to conspire against Caesar by stating, Caesar “is now become a god… and his name has been sounded more than [Brutus’s]” (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 118-145-6). Cassius’s arguments convinced Brutus in proving Caesar's murder would be just, but Caesar’s death is unjust because he is being murdered out of Brutus and Cassius’s jealousy. Both of the individuals are envious of the power that Caesar is being given by the people of Rome and want to end his life before they will lose their own power in the senate after Caesar becomes king. Brutus’ naive mind was easily convinced by Cassius that Caesar was not the best choice to assume the Roman throne because he would not listen to their political thoughts.
.Cassius and Brutus are both similar for wanting to get rid of Caesar, but they also have their differences. Cassius wanted to get rid of Caesar because he didn’t want anyone to ever be better than him. Brutus on the other hand only wanted to get rid of Caesar for the good of Rome, Brutus felt that Caesar wouldn’t have been a good