compare the character of brutus and mark antony
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Brutus - A supporter of the republic who believes strongly in a government guided by the votes of senators. While Brutus loves Caesar as a friend, he opposes the ascension of any single man to the position of dictator, and he fears that Caesar aspires to such power. Brutus’s inflexible sense of honor makes it easy for Caesar’s enemies to manipulate him into believing that Caesar must die in order to preserve the republic. While the other conspirators act out of envy and rivalry, only Brutus truly believes that Caesar’s death will benefit Rome. Unlike Caesar, Brutus is able to separate completely his public life from his private life; by giving priority to matters of state, he epitomizes Roman virtue. Torn between his loyalty to Caesar and his allegiance to the state, Brutus becomes the tragic hero of the play.
Antony - A friend of Caesar. Antony claims allegiance to Brutus and the conspirators after Caesar’s death in order to save his own life. Later, however, when speaking a funeral oration over Caesar’s body, he spectacularly persuades the audience to withdraw its support of Brutus and instead condemn him as a traitor. With tears on his cheeks and Caesar’s will in his hand, Antony engages masterful rhetoric to stir the crowd to revolt against the conspirators. Antony’s desire to exclude Lepidus from the power that Antony and Octavius intend to share hints at his own ambitious nature
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Marcus Brutus is 'the' real conspirator behind assassining Julius Caesar. He was a very intelligent man and a very great friend of Caesar. This was the reason he was not at all suspected of any treachery by Caesar. It was completely unexpected of Brutus to have killed Caesar. However, power mattered more than friendship to Brutus. He was very much in love with Rome, its people and its power. Decius Brutus, on the other hand, also a co-conspirator, did not play as much a great role as that of Marcus'. We see him at the beginning of the play when he forcibly persuades Caesar to visit the Capitol. He brings out the royal heart of Caesar who does not find it important to treat Calipurnia'a superstitious dreams with respect. Decius acts as an object of persuasion when he says that 'Caesar should be a beast without a heart'. All this compels Caesar to go to the Capitol to address the mass.