"The Noblest Roman of them all." How Accurate an Assessment is this of the Character Brutus?

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“The Noblest Roman of them all.” How Accurate an Assessment is this of the Character Brutus?

Brutus was one of the most important men in Ancient Rome and was a great friend of the emperor of Rome and her dominions, Julius Caesar. He loved his friend Caesar and felt a great deal of allegiance to him and wanted him to stay that way. However, Brutus’ love for Rome was much greater and still believed in a republic run by senators elected by the people similar to the government of today in Britain. He felt that Caesar was becoming too ambitious and was becoming a threat to the senate. Brutus felt that the only way to stop Caesar was to kill him and end all chance of him getting close to a throne. Although the method may seem, at first glance, evil, cruel and unnecessary, Brutus felt everything he was doing was for the good of the Senate, Rome and her people. While having good intentions, Brutus’ actions only served to fuel the one thing he was trying to avoid. It pushed Rome over the edge by turning Antony and Octavius against them. It drove Rome into a civil war which would last around 7 years and led to the death of him. In trying to solve a problem, he had inadvertently created one and caused great unrest in Rome and the outer lying territories. So this raises the question, does Brutus deserve the title of “Noblest Roman of them all” or was he nothing more than a naive politician who replaced one corrupt system with another?

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Before the actual murder, Brutus was a great friend of his target and had not actually joined the conspiracy. He was in great favour with him but was starting to feel Caesar was going too far and getting too much power. It is then he joined the plot with Cassius, a staunch anti-dictatorship man. It is then that Brutus tries to fulfil his title by joining it and trying to do what he thought was good for Rome. He showed this by thinking back in Act 1 Scene 2 to when his forefathers had deposed the last king of Rome, ...

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This response shows a good knowledge of the events of the text. If the writer had engaged with the details and avoided describing and telling the story of events, a higher grade would have been achieved. Top quality answers will use literary terms and engage with quotations very closely. ***