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Brutus Emotions In Julius Caesar

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Throughout the whole fourth act of Julius Caesar, Brutus suffers through a lot of events that drastically affect him. One of them is when his wife Portia dies from swallowing burning coals. Brutus struggles with this due to the fact that he practices stoicism so he does not allow himself to show his true emotion. Due to all of his emotions building up inside of him, he slips up and lets some spill out at his best friend Cassius. The whole point of the conspirators is to prevent corrupt people and leaders. In Act IV scene iii, Brutus mentions that they killed Caesar for justice, but then Cassius goes around accepting bribes. Was killing Caesar really for justice then, if he accepted those bribes? Through these things Brutus struggles with containing
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