When you betray your friend it kills their trust, and murdering them is the same thing as betrayal. Julius Caesar was betrayed by the ones he trusted most, and the last person to stab him was Brutus and he asked him “you too Brutus?”(Julius Caesar III.i). Brutus is battling within himself if he should join the conspirators, or stick to Caesar’s side. One of the themes in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was murder and betrayal. Caesar trusts Brutus and Mark Antony with every part of him, but one of them betrays him and the other carried out his reign. Brutus was the man Caesar trusted most in all of Rome, and Antony became one of his most trustworthy men. Antony was the person Caesar trusts to talk about people to, which is a good thing for Antony so when he becomes a ruler he can remember what he thinks about them. Both men were Caesars apprentices basically, so if one fails he still has a chance for the other man to succeed. Caesar trusting one man too much is what caused his …show more content…
Artemidorus tried to warn Caesar of the betrayal, but the conspirators would not let anyone talk or stop Caesar on the way to the Senate(II.iii). The conspirators killed him, and as soon as they did Mark Antony came in, which is the person that Caesar trusts most, shook every single man’s hand that killed Caesar. When he shook their hand it was the mark of death, and Brutus did not realize it at that time that they needed to kill Antony as well(III.i). On that day he swore revenge on the conspirators. At the funeral for Caesar, Brutus and Antony spoke, and the speech by Brutus moved the crowd to where they thought that Caesar was dishonorable(III.ii). As soon as Brutus finished his speech he left the city, for good reason because Antony started a riot, which killed a innocent man, to kill the conspirators for what they