Julius Caesar - BRUTUS Characterization

Brutus is “a noble man” who puts the good of Rome ahead of himself or anyone else, and this is why Caesar has to die. This personality trait makes the suspense in the play much more effective, because you do not know if something could change in his mind to make him realize that maybe his reason isn’t a good enough reason to kill a good friend. Though other characters may make it seem that they are acting noble about killing Caesar, you know that they are not killing him for the same reasons Brutus is. So even though Brutus’s reason for killing Caesar may seem a little more extreme than everyone else’s, it is really the most noble out of all of them.
In Scene 2 of Act I, there are a few good examples of why Brutus is thought of as putting the good of Rome ahead of himself and others. One good example is in Li...