Julius Caesar

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   amethystrose Teacher
   High School - 9th Grade

   At the end of Julius Caesar, Brutus observes the ruination of his country through civil war.  He had joined in a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar because he allowed Cassius to convince him that his friend Julius Caesar would be the ruin of Rome.  Because he loved his country more than he valued his friendships, he joined Cassius and the other conspirators in the plot.  After Caesar's death, instead of Rome benefitting, it was thown into civil war once Mark Antony got a chance to sway the crowds against the conspirators in his funeral oration.  That, too, was Brutus' fault because he underestimated Mark Antony and instead of refuisng to let him speak, as Cassius wanted, Brutus argued that allowing Antony before the crowd would be a good thing to lend sympathy to their cause.  How wrong he was.  Antony turned the crown against the conspirators and began a riot that led to war.  Too late, Brutus realizes the error of his ways and decides that his punishment must be death.  He carried out hiw own death sentence by running on his sword, and that it what led Mark Antony to call him "the noblest Roman of them all".

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