the conspirators are trying to convince Brutus to join their cause, with their end goal being the murder of Caesar, Brutus’s lifelong friend, who has done no harm to anyone. Brutus even tells Cassius that “I love him well,” showing their undying friendship (JC I. ii. 91).Yet Cassius manages to convince Brutus simply by using varying degrees of guilt and flattery. Even that should not have been enough to make one friend kill another, especially because Brutus and Caesar have never before had any reason
“Et tu, Brute?” and William Shakespeare composed one of the most remarkable lines in all of literary and stage history. Uttered as the last words of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, directed at one of his many assassins, previously a trusted friend, the line conveys utter heartbreak and betrayal. However these were not originally Shakespeare’s words, rather his adaptation. Suetonius recorded Julius Caesar’s shocking last words as, “What! Art thou, too, one of them? Thou, my son!” Possibly Caesar’s