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Sophia Gallegos rojas
Ms. Korey
English Honors I
1 March 2023
The Calamity of Brutus Tragedy plays a part in everyone’s lives. In Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, Tragedy plays a role in all five acts. The long-standing misfortune of Julius Caesar falls upon Brutus more than any other character mainly because of his honorable intentions. Shakespeare sheds light on the desolation of Brutus’s character as the play continues. From the beginning, Brutus has only set his eyes on the good of Rome, yet he is consistently being manipulated and deceived by his own ideals. As Shakespeare said, “I have not slept. / Between the acting of a dreadful thing / The genius and the mortal instruments / Are then in council, the state of man.” (Shakespeare lines 65-70) Brutus doesn't know he’s being deceived, and Brutus …show more content…

In act three, scene two, Mark Anthony states “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him./ The evil that men do lives after them The noble Brutus / Hath told you Caesar was ambitious / If it were so, it was a grievous fault.”(Shakespeare 83-88) The first instance of disloyalty against Brutus is Mark Antony. Antony is consistently contradicting what Brutus said while implying that Brutus was manipulating the people of Rome. To put it simply, Mark Antony overthrew Brutus’s life, reputation, and honor entirely with his backstabbings. His treachery eventually affected Brutus’s following, who were the people he was trying to protect. The crowd quickly turns on Brutus and the conspirators, as it states “O traitors, villains! / O most bloody sight! / Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live! / We’ll hear him, we’ll follow him, we’ll die with him.”(Shakespeare 213-221) Brutus had sinned for this crowd, killed for the good of Rome just for Mark Antony to take it all away. Antony took advantage of the people of Rome’s feelings and exploited them to get what he wanted, the

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