"Et tu Brutus?"
Wouldn't it just be depressing to know that all these years, your trustworthy friend turned his or her back on you?Everyone has known that Julius Caesar tells of betrayal, and I find it very saddening. We all have gone through the times where our friends have betrayed us, because of different reasons. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus betrays Caesar in fear of Caesar inclining towards dicatorship in Rome's republic. Basically, a republic is a form of government where the people have a say in the legislation and overall decisions for the public. Brutus feared this and just had to turn his back, because he did not want to be overruled by 1 leader. With conspirators, he killed Caesar by stabbing him. "Et tu Brutus?" These were the words of Ceasar before he had died and faced Brutus killing him. These words mean "And you Brutus?" He is saying how could Brutus have done this to me. For all these years, Brutus was a true friend to Caesar, but in the end one had more power than the other. Caesar and Brutus had "equally pleasing names" but one had more approval in the eyes of the public. But what I believe is that any friendship can not be called a friendship, when a friend feels that one should do adverse things to each other. Isn't amazing how as things change, people change?
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