At the end of the play, Mark Antony says Brutus was a truly honorable man- and I totally agree. Brutus’s reasons for killing Caesar in the first place are much more honorable than that of Cassius. Also, the way he dies at the end shows how he is honorable, too. He does what is best for his country, and this wins respect even for his closest enemy.
When Brutus must decide if he will kill Caesar, he does so for the good of rome. He says, “’Speak, strike, redress!” Am I entreated To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise, If the redress will follow, thou receivest Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!” (II. i. 55). This is basically saying that he will do whatever Rome asks of him. Brutus wants to help the most people he can, which is most definitely honorable.
The other conspirators want to kill Antony, as well, yet Brutus knows that would be dishonorable and foolish. Brutus says, “Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar; And in the spirit of men there is no blood: O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, And not dismember Caesar! But, alas, Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends, Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully” (II. i. 168). Brutus doesn’t want to spill more blood than necessary, and this is honorable.
Finally, at the end, Brutus does not want to be taken prisoner and humiliated, so he kills himself. This in itself is honorable to not let anyone triumph over you. If Antony had captured him instead of him being dead, then he would be paraded around as a sign that he had lost. But he had honorably saved himself from that experience.
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