s a rather immoral act resulting in confusion and disorder throughout all of Rome, it is not without honorable intentions for the good of Rome, that Brutus's led mutiny kills Caesar. Just as Caesar paid with his life for his tragic flaw in his inability to perceive his ambitious ego, Brutus's tragic flaw lies within his incapacity to understand that not all men are as noble as he, and like Caesar he pays dearly for this flaw with his life. It is worth pondering the idea that if Cassius did not "[have] some aim"(act 1, scene 2, line 163) in suggesting that Brutus "undergo…an enterprise / Of honorable and dangerous consequence"(act 1, scene 3, lines 123-124) or in other words rebellion, would Brutus have found fault within Caesar's actions? Could this upheaval have been quelled if envious Cassius did not open his big mouth? Nevertheless, as a result of Cassisus's modest proposal that "'Brutus' will start a spirit as well as 'Caesar'"(act1, scene 2, line 147), Caesar is catapulted into the center of Brutus's thoughts. Again the ever-omnipotent Caesar is imposed on another Roman's contemplation, this time Brutus. What troubles noble Brutus is the concept of what Caesar was, and more importantly, the possible tyrannical dictator he may become. The fault within this philosophy is that Brutus compares almighty Caesar to, "a serpent's egg / Which hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous," and therefore Brutus must "kill him in the shell"(act 2, scene 1, lines 31-34). It is hard to agree with Brutus's erroneous metaphor of comparing high and mighty Caesar to an amphibious egg. The reader is led to question Shakespeare's apparent insult to noble Brutus's intelligence here. After all, it is solely within this, ironically and honorably driven faulty interpretation of Caesar's potentially tyrannical tendencies, that leads Brutus to "str[ike] him," although he truly "did love Caesar"(act 3, scene 1, line 182), in his greater love for the "ge...
