Brutus, an honorable and patirotic man

Brutus, an honorable and patriotic man

“If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye, and death I’ th’ other, And I wil look on both indifferently; for let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.” (p33) Brutus valued honor and loved his country, Rome, so much that he was ready to die for the good of Rome. These factors motivated him to reach for his goal, unifying Rome, by assassinating Caesar. Thus, Brutus an honorable and patriotic man, justified all he did because It was for Rome.
Brutus is mainly motivated by his esteem the honor in which that he keeps trying to justify his act by this reasonable motivation. It motivates him constantly since it’s the most valuable thing in Brutus himself, and also because he has a thought that someone in Rome should be honorable in able to make Rome Republic rather than it being ruined by a tyrant without any honor, so he decides himself to be honorable. He believes that honor will be a lot helpful for him to reach his goal: unifying Rome. However, because of his too high esteem in honor, it becomes so easy for tactical conspirators to manipulate him to bring him to their side. As soon as Brutus joins the conspiracy and leads people in it, he emphasizes that it should be not allowed to murder Caesar in a dishonorable fashion. He mentions Caesar needs to be treated like a human being. Even after the assassination of Caesar, Brutus disagrees with conspirators’ plan of killing Antony, who is the closest to Caesar, because he believes it is a dishonorable act that is unnecessary. “And, gentle friends, let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.” (p 74) Brutus says Caesar must be a sacrifice for gods and not a carcass that their act is justifiable. Brutus believes it wouldn’t be honorable to kill him angrily with jealousy hence he keeps telling conspirators to be proud of themselves that they’re just sending Caesar as a sacrifice for gods, for the good of Rome. It indicates Brutus’ high respect in honor so that he considers everything he does really carefully in the way to make sure that it is all honorable. He also tells Romans at the beginning of his funeral speech, “Believe me for mine honour, and have respecProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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to mine honour, that you may believe.” (p128) He wants to make sure that everyone knows the significance of his honor in what he has done. He surely thinks all he has done is honorable and all Romans should understand it. It becomes obvious that he is so motivated by honor all the time and it makes him think he is doing the right thing and it leads him to never stop to reach his goal.
Brutus is very patriotic and he does not even fear death if it is for the good of Rome. He believes true Romans should love Rome, and be patriotic. His patriotism makes him strongly believe that Roman Empire should be in a republic and not tyranny for its own good. He worries that the Roman citizens would lose their freedom once a tyrant leads them. This justifies the act of killing Caesar as well since he knows that if Caesar becomes a king, the Roman Empire will be weakened and seized so that it will never get to be unified. So finally he kills Caesar just for his country Rome and after Caesar’s death, he explains to the public even though he loved Caesar, he loves Rome more and he is afraid that the Roman public would lose their voice, liberty because of Caesar’s ambitions. “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” (p128) He is letting Romans know that these are all for Rome and that Brutus himself with others have done it with the motivation of patriotism. As he says how he cares about Romans and his endless love for Rome, commoners get easily persuaded that the assassination was the righteous thing. “If these be motives weak, break off bedtimes; … countrymen, What need we any spur but our own cause To prick us to redress? What other bond Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter?” (p70) He tells conspirators if killing Caesar is just for their own good, they should stop planning everything. It better be the good of Rome and the motive of patriotism because all of them, as Romans, are bonded to each other to protect Rome. He, being patriotic, keeps trying to do anything he can do for Rome and he is so confident in himself that his and other Romans’ patriotism will make Rome a Republic that is unified.
Brutus’ internal conflict has caused lots of tension and his motivations that are honor and patriotism. These have motivated Brutus to not give up for his goal and kept him in his confidence with all the reasonable justifications. But at last, He does not achieve his goal, which was to save Rome itself and the citizens. Brutus loses his attempt to keep Rome a republic. His commitment to honor repeatedly leads him to making wrong decisions. I believe his goal is not noble because in the end, public refuses him. He did not achieve his goal at all. And truly honorable man would really know what the benefit would be for others and not be easily manipulated. Because all he has planned and his goals were unworthy, he loses everything. Even his wife Portia kills herself. He gets thrown out of Rome that he loved so much; no one wants him or respects him. Brutus is honorable but he fails to justify his means, so it was all unworthy and senseless.