One of these was Brutus, who afterwards slew him. Most of those who were taken alive Caesar incorporated in his legions, and to many men of prominence he granted immunity. After Brutus fought against Casesar, they reconciled after the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC: On the other hand, Servillia was actually Caesar’s mistress and Brutus owed his life to Caesar. He even married Cato’s daughter Portia! So you can see that once Caesar starts acting like a king, Brutus must have felt a tremendous amount of pressure from his Family to stay true to his Republican ideology. This was how seriously the Brutus family took defending the Roman Republic, they valued it even beyond their own family.īrutus’ mother was Servilia, half sister of Caesar’s longtime critic, the senator Cato. Jaques Louis David, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789. Below is the famous painting of Lucius foiling a plot to restore the monarchy, but to do so, he had to sentence his own sons to death: Shakespeare’s source for the play, Plutarch’s lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, mentions that his desire to kill Caesar might have been tied to his family: Brutus’ ancestor was Lucius Junius Brutus, the man who drove out the last king of Rome, and first consul. My goal is to look at the history and the actions of Brutus in the play to show why he is such an amazing and ambigous character. I won’t go into every scene and speech of Brutus’. ![]() ![]() If I have time, I will try to post a few more, since I have not touched on Cymbaline or Titus Andronicus.This will not be an in depth character analysis. I hope you have enjoyed all the posts for my Roman week.
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