Essay On Julius Caesar Being Too Trusting

“I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them” This is a quote by Do Won Chang that partially relates to Marcus Brutus in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare. The play begins and Brutus is tricked into joining the conspiracy. The conspiracy is a group of people who are willing to go against, Julius Caesar, the next ruler of Rome. They want Brutus to join them because Brutus is a good friend of Caesar, and they could kill Caesar easier with the help of Brutus. Brutus trusts the conspiracy because he thinks he is going to kill Caesar for the good of Rome. While later in the play,

Therefore the quote stated above only partially relates to Brutus because when Brutus dies, he doesn’t realize he was too trusting. He thinks that he lived the perfect life. In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus was too trusting of the conspirators, in his own self, and during the events of the war, therefore making his tragic flaw trusting. To start off, the first downfall of being too trusting is that Brutus was tricked by the conspirators to join them . By trusting their ideas, Brutus obeyed and ended up making bad decisions in the end. “Take this paper, and look you lay it in the proctor’s chair where Brutus may but find it.” (I. iii. 142) This is a quote saying that the conspiracy is going to write fake letters to Brutus addressed from fake people. They are going to lay it where Brutus can see it, so he can join them. This quote reveals that Brutus was too trusting of the conspiracy. Brutus trusted that they were letters from a good organization, rather than a group that wants to kill people. Brutus simply obliges anyway, although he has no clue what the group is about, but still