Marcus Brutus character profile:

        Brutus shows his honesty and honorability, he proclaims the fact that there is no need for oath if everyone is honest. He says:

“Men swears oaths only when they doubt the strength of each others devotion”

Brutus honesty and ideology is shown through this quotation. It portrays the fact that Brutus is trustworthy and a person who strongly believe in the virtue of honesty. Furthermore this quotation represent the fact that an oath will surely follow betray, as only those who can not trust will surly betray each other. It’s ironic that such a quotation comes from Brutus who has declared his loyalty and friendship to Caesar. This makes characters more realistic, for all men must break their own rules. For as people say rules are only ever made to be broken. Thus an oath is like the same effect.

In Act IV we again see his honor, and his love for the peasants. He says this in response Cassius actions in bribing:

“I had rather coin my hear, And drop my blood for drachmaes than wring from hands of peasants their vile trash”

Once again we see that Brutus in high in honor and loves the Roman Citizens very much. Despite the need for money, Brutus would never take it away from the peasants despite their betrayal and fickleness. It is surprising to see that he had discarded the fact that it was the peasant who had betrayed upon him. But he would rather sell his blood rather than take the money from peasants. He describes their money as vile trash, suggesting fact that even if they give willingly. It will seem like trash to him.

Over the course of the play we see that Brutus can not make correct judgments. He failed to see the treachery in Anthony and discarded Cassius warning and allowed Anthony to speak at the funeral. This proven by the fact that Anthony betrayed Brutus by causing a riot when he said this:

“…Brutus says he was ambitious…

…Brutus is and honorable man…

…Brutus says he was ambitious…

…Brutus is and honorable man…”

        Due to his trust of Anthony he allowed him to speak, thinking that it will give them more popularity. The result was a completely the inverse, as Anthony manipulated the crowd into turning their back upon Brutus. The repetition of ambitious causes the word to lose much of its force among the people. Likewise, Anthony says honorable in a sarcastic way which causing the word to mean the complete inverse after he finished his speech. We clearly see Brutus main mistake in his character. He is too trustful of others which have mainly resulted in his defeat to Anthony at the end.