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“For let the gods so speed me as I love/ The name of honor more than I fear death.”(JC.I.ii.90-91). In the play Julius Caesar the conspirators kill the upcoming king with one man who truly believes what he is doing is right and noble. This man is Brutus who is the biggest character throughout all of the play and should have the name of this play. Without Brutus the conspirators would have never lasted as long as they did after killing Caesar. They would have been portrayed as murders for butchering and killing two people if Brutus did not speak. “For Antony is but a limb of Caesar/ Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius”(JC II.i.167-168). Brutus does not envy Caesar like other conspirators. He wants to kill Caesar in a high respected
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