Why Was Brutus Caesar Into A Conspiracy

What were Brutus and Cassius' Motivation for Conspiracy?

Brutus and Cassius murder Caesar and begin a conspiracy against his leadership of Rome for both selfish and selfless reasons, Brutus being the selfless one and Cassius the selfish. In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar there is a variety of conspiracy, war and destruction of friends and colleagues. Marcus Brutus and Gais Cassius conspire against Julius Caesar the current leader and proposed tyrant of Rome. Brutus conspired against his friend Julius Caesar out of loyalty, love and patriotism to his country and his people. Whereas Cassius began a conspiracy against his leader out of greed and selfishness, to gain superiority and full control over Rome to hold the high level of leadership

This quote therefore shows that Cassius is in a way disappointed in himself, allowing Caesar to take control and become an almighty figure, so one of his aims and motivations is to take back what he so easily allowed to be taken. Cassius' motives are therefore based completely upon his hatred and envy of Caesar and his god like figure upon Rome and the attention of a hero being welcomed home. So Cassius kills Caesar to hopefully gain the heroes glory Caesar had received from the people of Rome. This similarly relates to Scar's motives from The Lion King, he kills his brother to gain the power he is convinced that he deserves under the belief that he can do better, but in actual fact the citizens hate him for it and he fails leaving his domain in crisis. Aside from the fact that Scar is Mufasa's brother, this story completely relates to Cassius' motives within the

The undoubted similar reason they both held is their fear for Caesars rising power and his tight grasp upon the citizens of Rome. Although roughly a similar reason, the deeper motivation behind the reasoning is that Brutus doesn't fear Caesars power for the same reason as Cassius. As shown in this quote, "What means this shouting? I do fear the people choose Caesar for their king," he simply fears that Caesar will abuse his power and dictate over Rome, and so kills him in protection of his people. On the other hand cassius fears Caesars power just as Brutus does, however contrary to Brutus, for selfish reasoning. "What’s so special about caesar?", This quote shows how much Cassius despises Caesar and how he feels he is no better of a man than Brutus or himself. They both had a common goal but were not sure of each other's very different and clashing reasons for attempting to reach the goal ahead. Cassius seemed to have been a puppet master and conductor of the conspiracy twisting things to suit his own preferences, and to rise against a super power in order to achieve his ultimate goal. The differences in motivation between Brutus and Cassius vividly reflect their morals, just as their morals reflect back upon their reasons. Brutus holds Caesar (his friend) in high