The Leadership Role Of Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Secondly, Shakespeare represents the idea of Brutus having more power due to controlling the conspirators and letting Brutus himself in the leadership role. In Act Two Scene One there was a passage that shows how Brutus was leading the conspirators to do the right thing for Rome. “No, not an oath: if not the face of men/The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse/ -- If these be motives weak, break off bedtimes/And every man hence to his idle bed/………. If he do break the smallest particle/Of any promise that hath pass’d from him”(2.1.114-140). Brutus was using his own powers to control the conspirators, the conspirators trusted and followed Brutus. Brutus doesn’t know that he had pulled himself into the important role. He believes in his honorable