Is Brutus Caesar Justified

Brutus convinces himself that Caesar needs to be killed, by justifying that once Caesar becomes King, the power will manifest his true selfish nature and he will ruin Rome. Brutus has no personal grudge against Caesar. But if it is for the greater good of the people, for Rome, he will kill Caesar. In Brutus’s personal experience Caesar has never shown fault. Thus, he goes through a process of logic in the unknown to convince himself that Caesar should die. In his justification, Brutus considers that just as poisonous snakes come into the sunny day, Caesar could be evil and giving him the crown would grant him the ability to damage Rome. Yet he has personally “not known when [Caesar’s] affections swayed more than his reason” (Brutus 2.1.20-21).