Brutus vs Nobility

As the stage curtain begins its gentle voyage across the lonely, faded wood floors of the Globe Theater, one Marcus Antonius weeps softly over the body of his fallen hero. He sighs quietly, looks Decius Brutus in his empty eyes and proclaims, “This was the noblest Roman of them all.”, a statement that is both poetic and rhetoric, but surely holds little more truth than a teaspoon does water. This statement was made on an …

…as a governor, and his family was of little importance to him. Brutus was a weak character from the beginning to the end of Julius Caesar, and deserves no praise whatsoever. Not only is he not the noblest of all, he may very well be the least. And so the curtain closes, leaving us only with questions and, now, a loathing for the falsely famed Decius Brutus, a liar, a cheater, a traitor, a sinner.