Pamela Ibanez

English 2 Hon E-Core

Krucli

20 November, 2002

Statement of Intent

            Brutus is a character from the play Caesar written by Shakespeare. Brutus is an honorable Roman noble in a time of chaos. He has very strong and pronounced character qualities which in the end, lead to his demise. Brutus chooses to live his life as a stoic, and he shows no real emotion. In my interview I would like to portray Brutus as an honorable man who makes all of his choices based on what he believes will be the best for Rome, yet being very naïve and making mistakes in his choices.

            Brutus is a very noble and honorable man who bases all of his decisions on the good of Rome. He was honorable and well liked throughout his country. Many of his subjects liked him and trusted him, and that is why Caesar did not believe him to be a threat. Brutus also died an honorable death, the death of a warrior. He would rather have had committed suicide on his own will, rather than his servant having the power, or Antony having the power of killing him. Brutus was also righteous and noble, and loved his country deeply. When Brutus joined the conspiracy, he kept his word and did not betray anyone; this shows his nobility toward others. The reason that he chose to join the conspiracy and murder Caesar was for the good of Rome. He was the one who did not want to kill Antony in the end because he wanted to keep their focus on killing Caesar, and to help the country, and he believed that Antony would not hurt the country. He was also the only conspirator that killed Caesar out of the good on the country and not out of jealousy. He did not believe that Caesar was a good ruler, and all he wanted was for the country to prosper.

            Brutus was also very gullible and naïve. He believed that everyone was as moral and virtuous as him. He never thought that all of the men in the conspirators were only there because they envied Caesar’s rise to power, he believed that they were there to perfect Rome, like him. He was also persuaded by Cassius to join the conspirators, and when Cassius wrote anonymous letters to Brutus’s house to try to persuade him that he was an honorable man and that he should be king and not Caesar, he fell into his trap. Brutus is also very hardheaded and did not head Portia’s warnings. He did not listen to her and did not trust her with his plot against Caesar.

            In the end, Brutus’s downfall was caused by his incessant faith in man, and naïveté toward the world. He has too much faith in everyone and he believes that because he is honorable, everyone else is also. This proves to be his character flaw, but he stays true to his beliefs until the very end and is the “most noble Roman of them all.”