Marcus Brutus William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is mainly based on the assassination of Julius Caesar. The character who was in charge of the assassination was, ironically, Marcus Brutus, a servant and close friend to Julius Caesar. (http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/m_brutus.sum.html) But what would cause a person to kill a close friend? After examining Brutus' relationship to Caesar, his involvement in the conspiracy, and his importance to …showed first 75 words of 931 total…

…showed last 75 words of 931 total…to Julius Caesar, but not good enough. He had moral values dealing with Rome and its people. Brutus' values then made him join a conspiracy against Caesar put together by Cassius.(Wilson, 87-89) Brutus joined this mainly because he didn't want Caesar to turn his back on Rome so there would be a reasonable reason for killing Caesar.(90) If Brutus wasn't in the play, there would be no "Tragedy" in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.