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How Does Brutus Change In Julius Caesar

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In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar we meet a man named Brutus supposably Caesar's (main character) best friend. This changes later on when He gets parinoded of Caesar's power. He believes that Caesar has too much power and is rising too fast. Throughout the play Brutus has said that Caesar is like a serpent's egg. Since he is so paranoid he starts to question his best friends loyalty he is met by a group of people who also have their thoughts on Caesar or conspiracies. The group shared the same feelings as Brutus on caesar's power. In the end tho It's wrong that he joined, but there's always two sides to every story. This side would be from everyone else because it's wrong to turn against your best friend just because they are becoming king. Brutus didn't look at Caesars accomplishments he just felt like he was going to do bad. Brutus was afraid of caesar being unloyal, but in the end it's Brutus who was the unloyal friend. Looking at the other side tho you could say it's a good thing he joined them. …show more content…

He could've been a horrible king causing war and doing horrible things thinking he is gaining more power when really he's destroying Rome. Brutus couldn't have asked caesar because he would've denied it. Caesar could of also turned his back on brutus after he asked that becoming what brutus feared unloyal. This one reason why it was brutus’s own choice to join the group he wanted to protect rome. Some might say to Brutus was tricked into join and some say he

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