So public and notorious was Servilia's love to Caesar. The second was allowing Mark Antony to live and then permitting him to speak at Caesar’s funeral. The first and most basic fault by Brutus was allowing himself to become involved with the conspirators. He attacks Cassius for raising money dishonestly, yet he demands a portion. He has conflicting attitudes toward the conspiracy, but he becomes more favorable following his becoming a member of the plot against Caesar. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar’s, to him I say that Brutus’s love to Caesar was no less than his. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may the better judge. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe. His many aberrations led to his own death. Brutus' character is made even more complex by his unconscious hypocrisy. Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. Upon this, Cato cried out aloud, and accused Caesar of holding correspondence with and receiving letters from the enemies of the commonwealth and when many other senators exclaimed against it, Caesar delivered the note as he had received it to Cato, who reading it found it to be a love-letter from his own sister Servilia, and threw it back again to Caesar with the words, "Keep it, you drunkard," and returned to the subject of the debate. In the play, Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, the main character Brutus made several errors in judgment. The story is told, that when the great question of the conspiracy of Catiline, which had like to have been the destruction of the commonwealth, was debated in the senate, Cato and Caesar were both standing up, contending together on the decision to be come to at which time a little note was delivered to Caesar from without, which he took and read silently to himself. And this he is believed to have done out of a tenderness to Servilia, the mother of Brutus for Caesar had, it seems, in his youth been very intimate with her, and she passionately in love with him and, considering that Brutus was born about that time in which their loves were at the highest, Caesar had a belief that he was his own child. Original text and analysis of Shakespeares Julius Caesar Romans, countrymen and lovers monologue, spoken by Brutus: Romans countrymen and friends.
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