Nov 16, 2009

Julius Caesar | Brutus (Character Analysis)

Despite the play's title, Brutus is the central character of Julius Caesar, and it is within the anguished workings of Brutus's mind that the issue of tyranny versus freedom is played out. The last word on the character of Brutus falls to Mark Antony, and it ironically contradicts Antony's previous doubts about Brutus as an honorable man.

This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators, save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar,
He, only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.