Brutus Mistakes In Julius Caesar

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Brutus’s mistakes in Julius Caesar shook Rome to its core and sent a government toppling to the ground. Julius Caesar was written in 1599 by William Shakespeare. In Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus makes a lot of mistakes such as joining the conspiracy, not killing Marc Antony, letting Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral, and charging down onto the plains of Philippi which led to his untimely death. Brutus’s first mistake was joining the conspiracy against Caesar. Cassius, trying to deceive Brutus, said to him “But in ourselves, that we are underlings. / Brutus and Caesar. What should be in that Caesar? / Why should that name be sounded more than / yours?” (1.2.141-43) Cassius, clearly trying to entangle Brutus into the conspiracy, was getting into …show more content…
Brutus, explaining to Cassius why they should not kill Antony, said, “Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, / To cut the head off the hack the limbs, / Like wrath in death and envy afterwards, / For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.” (2.1.169-72) Brutus was trying to be reasonable, but it came to haunt him later. Cassius, talking about Antony, whispers, “I wish we may. But yet have I a mind / That fears him much, and my misgiving still / Falls shrewdly to the purpose.” (3.1.154-56) Cassius still thought it would have been a good idea to kill Antony. Antony, talking to Octavius’s servant, states, “There I shall try, / In my oration, how the people take / The cruel issue of these bloody men.” (3.1.308-10) Antony wants to bring down the conspirators badly. He will go against their wishes and cause a riot among the people. Brutus made an enormous mistake in not killing Antony, because he shifted the opinion of the …show more content…
He let Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral. Antony, preaching to the people there to mourn Caesar, shouted “Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. / Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, / And Brutus is an honorable man. / You all did see at on Luprical / I thrice presented him a kingly crown, / Which he thrice refuse. Was that ambition?” (3.2.91-96) Antony was trying and successfully turned the crowd against the conspirators. This turn made it impossible for any of the conspirators to live in the city. Antony shouts mischievously as the conspirators leave, “Now let it work. Mischief thou art afoot. / Take thou what course thou wilt!” (3.2.249-50) Antony knew what was going to happen. The rioters were going to kill all the conspirators. He was put to kill Brutus and the others. Brutus was stupid to let Antony
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