“Let’s be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.” - Brutus. This quote definitely characterizes Brutus as an honorable and patriotic man towards his country. He never causes chaos followed by his jealousy or hatred. If he thinks his decisions will be beneficial to his country, so indeed he will make them. Patriotism is really what led him to join the conspiracy against Caesar since he believed Caesar would have brought harm to the country. It is indeed true that Brutus did not start the conspiracy. In fact, Cassius has started the conspiracy group and he flattered and convinced Brutus to join them so in my opinion, peer pressure is the second motivator for Brutus to destroy Caesar.
“For let the gods so speed me as I love. The name of honor more than I fear death.” - Brutus. Brutus is indeed a very honorable man. He realized Caesar was aiming for the crown and if he gets crowned, Rome will lose their Democratic Republic. Brutus really did not want a tyrant in Rome and he believed tyranny was one of the ways that Rome will be destroyed. “I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown’d.” – Brutus. This quote clearly indicates that Brutus only joined the conspiracy for the country’s good and that was the only way to stop the rise of a tyrant. “We shall be call’d purgers, not murderers.” – Brutus. Brutus mentioned that in front of the whole conspirators and clearly Brutus was becoming the leader of the conspiracy instead of Cassius. We know that since Cassius started off the conspiracy group because of his fear, jealousy and hatred. He was indeed very selfish of his actions. He knew that Caesar disliked him so he feared if he ever gets crown’d, his power and position will be vanished from the society and also, his jealousy towards Caesar was huge. Back in the times, both Caesar and Cassius were at the same position and they both treated each other with respect but in a blink of an eye, Caesar has risen too high and people considered him as a god like figure. Now that Brutus has joined the conspiracy, Brutus has completely changed their attitudes of being honorable of their actions. This shows Brutus always sticks to the subject of honor no matter what. He definitely takes the assassination as an act of honor.
“And it is very much lamented, Brutus, That you have no such mirrors as will turn your hidden worthiness into your eye, that you might see your shadow” – Cassius. “And since you know you cannot see yourself so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.” – Cassius. Brutus was indeed not the one to come up with the idea of starting a conspiracy against Caesar. He was simply worried but nothing has come into his mind until Cassius tried flattering and convinced him to join the conspirators. Cassius has given a speech of what Caesar was capable of doing to destroy Rome for he knew Brutus was an honorable man. He also succeeded in convincing Brutus that Caesar is no god-like but simply a noble man just like themselves. Cassius really tried his best to convince Brutus to join the conspiracy and although Brutus was fully convinced, there was still a huge peer pressure on him. Peer pressure was indeed the second motivator for Brutus to join the conspiracy since if it wasn’t for Cassius, Brutus wouldn’t have caused a whole bloody mess.
After a whole bloody war and violence, Brutus still didn’t achieve what he really wanted. Rome was taken by Octavious and he became the emperor. The main goal for Brutus was to stop tyranny and keep the Democratic Republic but it was all in vain in the end. His goal wasn’t achieved and in addition, all the conspirators died. Was the Brutus’s goal worthy? Not at all for all the Romans always have Caesar as a hero in their hearts and the gullible Romans never thought of honor but only their love towards Caesar.
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