How Was Julius Caesar Manipulated

Cleary Brutus is conclusively responsible for the death of Julius Caesar. The reason for this is because Brutus was manipulated by Cassius into murdering Caesar. One of Cassius’ greatest strengths is using his words to manipulate an individual. He uses his strength on Brutus to join him and rise up against Caesar. He does not want Caesar becoming king because he was highly jealous of his power and believes that Caesar is a weak man and didn’t deserve to have the power he had. He believed that Brutus was an excellent person to join him in his plan because he guaranteed that Brutus is a person that can easily be manipulated and also had a great sense of honor when it came to the people of Rome. In act one scene two, Cassius says, “Tonight I’ll throw a few letters through his window—each written with different handwriting, as if they came from different citizens—all saying how great his reputation is throughout

Cassius does this because he knows that by doing this, Brutus will definitely agree to tagging along on their plan since he now knows how much the people of Rome respect him and because he strongly disagrees with Caesar becoming king and Rome becoming a tyranny . He also manipulated Brutus because he knew that Brutus would put the good of Rome above anything else. In act 1 scene 2, Brutus says, “If it’s for the general good of Rome, I’d do anything, even if it meant my death. May the gods grant me good favor only so long as I love honor more than I fear death.” This comes to show that he is willing to go far enough and do anything, like for example, kill his good friend Caesar, if it meant doing what is