How Does Brutus Change In Julius Caesar

In the beginning of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, your mind is completely blind to the fact that turning or even killing Caesar is possible. Though, you soon learn, not everyone is a fan of Caesar. And, well, let’s just say the people that don’t agree with him are pretty good at persuading others to join their evil plans. Brutus in specific, one of Caesar's best friends. He lets himself get talked into slaying a person very near and dear to him, all because of something very relevant today, peer pressure. Brutus is a part of the government in Rome, so you’d probably guess that he’s good under pressure and making decisions, those sort of things. But, you’ll soon learn over a course of events involving his wife Porcia and his best friend

Brutus, Cassius, and the other conspirators hear shouting outside and they think the people are shouting and cheering for them. “What means this shouting? I do fear, the people choose Caesar for their king.” (1.2.168) Little do they know, it’s the complete opposite. People are furious and quite angry. Because of this unexpected outcome, Brutus gives a speech explaining why he did what he did. He tells the people of Rome how he thought Caesar was too dangerous and ambitious to be the leader of Rome, a city he loved too much to watch it be destroyed. At first this seems to work for him. Then, Mark Antony comes in and completely destroys the perfect image of himself that Brutus put into the Roman’s heads. Antony ends up telling all of the Romans of the lies that Brutus and Cassius are full of. Also, that none of the things about Caesar could possibly be true, Caesar loved them all. Watching the crowd morph into a mob, Brutus and Cassius aren’t sure whether to run or to stay and try to explain. Would they really risk getting trampled and possibly killed by an angry mob? “Everyone knows that an ambitious young man uses humility to advance himself, but when he reaches the top, he turns his back on the supporters”

All of this riot-like behavior is causing people to attack people that had absolutely nothing to do about the matter. For example the people go after an artist named Cinna, all because his name was similar to one of the conspirators. He had nothing to do with this terrible plan, though he still got murdered. He could’ve lived the life he was supposed to live if Brutus would’ve just thought this plan out thoroughly. Brutus is a bit too arrogant at this point. He doesn’t think anything of Antony. Antony ends up gathering an army which leads to a various amount of events with not so great outcomes. Brutus and Cassius knew what they’d done, they thought they’d made the best decision possible. They weren’t ever going to back down from a fight because that’s not how noble Roman’s act. They especially weren’t about to be known as cowards for the rest of their lives. Not everyone thought this way, though. Brutus’s wife, Portia, thought very poorly of the situation. Why fight about this? Why make it into some huge thing? Why risk everything over a stupid arguement? This had almost no effect on Brutus. He strongly believed in everything he had decided. What he didn’t know was that this was one of the worst ways he could’ve handled how Portia thought about the situation. “Portia is dead. She was worried about my absence, and about