The Good and Bad Qualities That Brutus Possesses in Julius Caesar

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ENGLISH LITERATURE JULIUS CAESAR (Character analysis) : BRUTUS: strengths: : stoical - doesn't show emotion : superlative praise from Antony (Many characters praise him) : comes from an ancient, highly respected family - very honourable : not easily won by Cassius' persuasions - listens to his arguments + then thinks it over carefully : huge sense of responsibility - soliloquy (Act 2, Scene 1) : creates sympathy - when he says he hasn't slept since Cassius first spoke to him (4 weeks earlier) (very distressed) - highlights his loyalty to Caesar and his friends : tender and affectionate towards wife (Portia) + his servant (Lucius) - attractive quality + despite his troubled mind (distressed when he finds out Portia self-harmed) : once his mind is made up he never wavers - assassination of Caesar : extremely sincere : must be good because won the complete trust of the Roman mob and Caesar ('For Brutus as you know, was Caesar's Angel' - Antony) : 'I am not gamesome.' - Brutus - quite boring, not frivolous BUT noble, honest, full of integrity (sense of nobility) : 'If it aught toward the general good, set honour in one eye and death i'th'other and I will look on both indifferently.' - Brutus - loyal, will do anything for Rome (even if it means death) : 'This was the noblest Roman of them all.' - Antony : 'He sits high in all the people's hearts.' - Casca (man not easily impressed judging from his mocking account of the ceremony with the crown = value his praise more highly) faults: : idealist - sees the best in people / motives for joining the conspirators (wholly pure) but sees him make many mistakes 1. gives Antony permission to address the citizens at Caesar's funeral - stirred them to mutiny (unwittingly allowed Antony to discredit him and the conspirators) 2.

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