Source # Nine: Mizener, Arthur

This is a quote that represents exactly what is going on in Brutus head in the story. He is never sure if Caesar will do anything unjust, but that slight chance is what provokes him to take part in killing the man. Brutus is also influenced by Cassius and I believe that without Cassius Brutus would have never done anything to this degree to Caesar. The conversation that the two have in the beginning of the play is the start to all of the talk about killing Caesar. Brutus was originally against basically the whole idea but eventually he became convinced. This quote is wrong in the respect that it makes it sound as if Brutus was the only person who took part in killing Caesar. There were many other people involved and out of them all I felt that Brutus was the least of it. Brutus has no flaw that is apparent until the end of the play, but at the time which he killed Caesar, he did it and knew exactly what was happening. Brutus plays the role of both a tragic hero and a villain. After he took part in the killing of Caesar, I lost respect for him because it seemed like he was the only one that knew what was going on. Brutus changes all of his ways when Caesar dies, he tries to become a leader which he is not at all good at. Once Brutus made the major mistake of taking part in the killing of Caesar he changes for good and was never back to the normal way that he had been. He had turned into an enemy as opposed to a hero.