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Causes And Effects That Happened To Lead To Brut's Death

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Dorothy Mccoy once said, “Manipulation is a contagious disease, much more dangerous than the flu because it can endure for a lifetime.” The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare is about a guy named Brutus who joins the conspirators and kills his best friend because Cassius manipulated him into thinking that Julius Caesar is getting too powerful and ambitious for Rome. Then Brutus, later on, dies a very tragic death. I am going to be writing about two causes and effects that happened to lead to Brutut’s death. Brutus wasn’t the smartest or brightest guy in Rome, but he was the most loyal one to Rome other than Caesar, and another thing about him is he always told the truth no matter what. Cassius, Brutus’s brother-in-law, manipulated Brutus into killing Caesar because he thought Caesar was getting too powerful for Rome. Now Brutus didn't agree to it right away because he was struggling with his love for Caesar and his love towards the Republic of Rome. Cassius says,” Tonight I will throw a few letters in different handwriting saying how great Brutus is and how ambitious Caesar is.” (Act, 1 line …show more content…

Cassius knew it wasn't a good idea, but like I said before Brutus wasn't the smartest guy there so he let Antony talk. What Antony said scared Brutus and Cassius and they ran and hid. Soon after they both made armies. When the battle started it was going well and they were winning, but someone gave Cassius false information and told him they were losing, and Cassius got scared because he didn't want the other army to come up and kill him so Cassius killed himself. When the news got to Brutus he was devastated and overwhelmed with everything that had been happening and he was just done with everything. “O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords in our proper entrails!” line 105. Brutus then ran into the sword and he fell and

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