Julius_Ceasar-Honor

Julius Ceasar-Honor An Honorable Leadership Honor is one of the main underlying themes in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a tragic play that explains, through Brutus’ conflict with himself and with other main characters, that the end does not justify the means. Brutus's noble and honest traits, most opposite of Caesar, Cassius, and Antony, prove to reconcile his true leadership ability. Throughout the play, the themes of persuasion and propaganda bombard Brutus with conflict, but his honest seeds compel him to continue on in his battle for the good of Rome. In the beginning, we learn of the jealousy of Cassius, a "loyal" politician in Caesar’s court who is hungry for power. It is this jealousy that drives Cassius to use the power of persuasion on Brutus. He quickly encourages Brutus to trust him in that Caesar has become a tyrant and that he must be stopped for the good of Rome. Brutus soon forms a raw decision based on the given facts, but he does not make a shady one. "If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i’ th’ other And I will look on both indifferently"(page 11, line 85); Brutus carries this inspiration with caesar, brutus, rome, antony, leader, honor, cause, true, power, line, play, persuasion, people, one, means, lost, life, good, end, cassius, throughout, through, propaganda, loyal, justify, however, honest, himself, gain, dead, crowd, brutus’, battle, while, tyrant, truly