How far would you go? There are many different answers to this question, and many different responses. Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist who put together an experiment that was set up to show how people coped with someone telling them to do something that they did not want to do. In the same situation, I think that Brutus from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar would not want to do the experiment and be scared of what the outcome would be. He would want to stop at the beginning but if there was a person like Cassius in the room telling him to go on he would go all the way. At the end of the experiment Brutus would feel really bad about his action and wish that he could take them back. In this experiment the teacher relates most to …show more content…
But throughout the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Cassius, Brutus’s best friend, challenges Brutus to stand up for Rome and execute Caesar for the people. Relating this to the Milgram experiment I believe that Brutus will at first be timid and scared of the experiment, Brutus would be nervous and panicky to even start the experiment. William Shakespeare shows us that Cassius could tell Brutus to do anything and he would do it by the way Cassius seeks to make Brutus understand why he should murder Caesar. Brutus changes his mind after only one act in the play. “It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him.”(2.1.10-11) this quote shows how easily turned Brutus can be only after a couple of stories that Cassius had told him. That quote shows that Brutus had “no personal cause to spurn at him.”, but yet Brutus joins in on the plan to kill Caesar. I think that it would be the same way if he was in the Milgram experiment, if Cassius would tell him that they are doing this experiment for a good cause, Brutus would go all of the way to 450