John Updike - ex-basketball player

Brutus believes that honor is one of the most important values in life. When presented with a problem his focus is on what he considers to be honorable. Each decision he makes is based on what he believes to be admirable and right. He further believes that honor is an important value of everyone. This idealistic view of honor allowed him to only see the goodness in people. This lead to his downfall as he sees others as honorable as him. After much conflict within himself he concludes that killing Caesar is the honorable thing to do. Brutus, a respected man in Rome, believed that Caesar was becoming too powerful and joins a team of conspirators thinking he is protecting Rome but fails to see the motives of the conspirators, which in the end lead to his tragic death.
Brutus was respected, trusted, and honored by many men but his weakness of not listening to his friends and not being able to see the bad in people lead to his downfall. Casca talks to Cassius about Brutus joinin...