“I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.” (3.2 pg.130) This quote sets Brutus’s conflict; he had to betray his good friend for Rome. Honor and patriotism is what motivates Brutus, he loves his country and that is why he lives, to fight for his country. He is a very honorable man he likes the honor he gets because he makes a lot more alliances and builds trust on people. Being patriotic Brutus does anything for the benefit of his country; he loves Rome and gets rid of anyone who might be danger for Rome.
If Brutus had no honor and reputation he would be like just all the other commoners who follow like sheep. Brutus is motivated a lot by this because it benefits him a lot, he gets the trust of people, and he gets recognition, a high rank, and gets to be one of the powerful people of Rome. Since Brutus targets for honor he behaves very serious when he comes to making decisions, because whatever he does there will be an outcome which can either ruin or increase his reputation. “Lets kill him boldly, not wrathfully; lets carve him as a dish fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.” (2.1 pg. 74) This quote means that Brutus doesn’t want a murder he wants a sacrifice, he says this should be an honorable kill not some murder for the benefit of more power. This shows Brutus aiming for honor again; he thinks that by killing Ceasar, which is the right thing, he will gain more respect and honor for saving Rome from danger. “Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe” (3.2 pg. 128) In this quote Brutus uses his honor to convince the people of why he did so. This ties in with his aim because he is using his rank to convince the commoners, and if they believe him he will just gain more honor. Overall as long as Brutus is honorable and has a high reputation the commoners will follow him for he is powerful, but another motivator that has helped him build up reputation is of being patriotic.
Being patriotic means to do everything good for the country, Brutus is very patriotic, he just betrayed his very good friend, Ceasar, just for the benefit of Rome, even if it comes to sacrificing himself he will do it. Brutus is motivated in this way because he loves his country and has a true Roman spirit. Being patriotic Brutus is very careful about who is the King and who might be the next danger, which sort of ties in to honor, because if he saves his country from some danger all the people will praise him more. “Not that I loved Ceasar less, but that I loved Rome more.” (3.2 Pg.128) This quote indicates that Brutus didn’t love Ceasar less but he loved his Country more. This suggests that he is patriotic; he killed his dearest friend for the safety of Rome. “This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he did that they did envy of great Ceasar; He only, in a general honest thought and common good to all, made one of them.” (5.5 pg. 218) This means that Brutus was the noblest one out of all the conspirators, he only killed him for the sake of Rome and for the good of everyone. This shows Brutus patriotic, because he really meant this from his heart, he only saw Ceasar as a threat to Rome, as the rest of conspirators really didn’t sacrifice him with honor, they did it for the benefit of themselves. After all Brutus is very honorable and loyal to his country, he will only do what is best for Rome and everyone.
Brutus’s conflict was to kill his friend, Ceasar, for Rome, but he never thought that Ceasar would be a danger, Cassius convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy. The only thing Brutus killed Ceasar for was for honor and his country, Rome, which makes him honorable and patriotic. This caused Brutus to behave very serous because before he was very friendly and supportive to Ceasar, he would make a huge mistake to killing Ceasar without any justification, without a justification to kill Ceasar the commoners would kill him and the conspirators thanks to Antony. Brutus achieved his goal but found out that Rome had gone mad after the death of Ceasar. I think he achieved his goal because the “sacrifice” was very well planned and it was kept a secret very well, they had to make sure that there were no weak links. He was motivated by his honor for his country, this makes him fight in battles, save lives. Another motivator is patriotism, he used to do things all the time for his country, this brought him high in power and brought people’s trust. He even set a goal to kill his best friend for the sake of his country. I don’t think the goal was very noble. Brutus blamed Ceasar of being ambitious. He wasn’t ambitious if he was he wouldn’t have turned down the crown 3 times.
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