Brutus Compare Contrast Essay

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When we hear the question “How can one person make a difference?” we think of people that made a difference in our lives, like a friend to a leader of a country. People that make a difference are changing the outcome that people think will never change or they do or say something that people are scared to do. When I think about people that made a difference some that come to mind is Jesus You know he kind saved the world and there is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who changed civil rights in America, and even Michael Jordan who made kids everywhere want to fly like him. Another two examples we can use to tell about people who made a difference in Greek and Roman history is Antigone by the playwright Sophocles and Brutus, who was a character …show more content…

Brutus is a government official who leads one of the biggest assassination in Roman history. Brutus was an older man who is very wise, but sometimes he doesn’t think before he acts. In this case, he doesn’t think or take other people’s opinions into consideration. He starts out being a member in the assassination into one of the leaders. The reason the men are assassinations Caesar is because they think that Caesar is getting too much power going to overthrow the original government into an empire. Brutus thinks that killing Caesar will save the government, but they thought that the people would be happy, but they turned against the men and killed him for killing Caesar and Rome turn into an empire. So the moral of the story is even though you think that you are doing the right thing other people see it a different way and they are sometimes right. We look how Antigone and Brutus made a difference and we can see they made a difference in their play by doing something that they thought was right. For one the decision they made was very good, but for the other one the decision they made wasn’t so great but he thought at the time it was. In the end, they both had something in common, they killed themselves so we can see that they always make good decisions. We can learn from this play is you need to learn to do the right, even though everyone says not to but we need to make sure that it is the best option for everyone in the