Evaluating The Motifs OF The Tragedy Of Julius Ceasar

Evaluating Motifs in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
In his play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare shows many dramatic scenes where a character must make a complicated decision. However, in most cases, Shakespeare does not provide the characters sufficient motivation to make the choice they made. Nearly each of the characters face an inner-conflict where, which ever decision he or she makes, it will literally destroy him or her. The characters that encounter the toughest and most complex decisions are Brutus, Caesar, and Cassius. Each of their own careless decisions led to their death.
Brutus jumped to conclusions and never really took the time out to consider and reason each of his possible choices; instead he instinctively joined the conspiracy and killed his best friend. For example, after reading the forged letter from the people of Rome, he immediately concluded that murdering Caesar was for the good of Rome: “The genius and the mortal instruments / Are then in...