Brutus characterizes ambitious people as ruthless souls literally willing to stab their friends in the back. This is untrue. Many ambitious people are focused on helping and preserving others.
"As he was valiant I honour him but as he was ambitious I slew him."
Brutus led 60 conspirators to kill Julius Caesar.
Mark Antony
The main reason is that Brutus believed he was ambitious. Antony does through in some good points how he wasn't ambitious. Caesar was apparently [from Brutus's point of view] power hungry and would make Rome corrupt.
That Caesar was ambitious and a bit arrogant. He also trusted in the fact that the Roman military would keep him in control of Rome's affairs. These flaws in his character and trust in the military proved useless to the "dagger. The daggar problem was one that haunted Augustus and all the emperors that followed.
He explained why he killed Caesar, and how "ambitious" Caesar was
that woulod be Marcus Brutusor Brutus "for he was valiant i honor him, he was ambitious so i slew him"
"As he was valiant I honour him but as he was ambitious I slew him."
Brutus led 60 conspirators to kill Julius Caesar.
Mark Antony
he says that Caesar is ambitious
he avenges his death in a way by convincing the people that brutus did not do it for rome, but because he was ambitious. i love this play.
Antony, in his funeral oration for Caesar, repeated the phrase, "Brutus said he (meaning Caesar) was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man," in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
brutus explains ceasar is greedy for power and wealth also as he describes ceasar in the movie and book as a ambitious person
The main reason is that Brutus believed he was ambitious. Antony does through in some good points how he wasn't ambitious. Caesar was apparently [from Brutus's point of view] power hungry and would make Rome corrupt.
That Caesar was ambitious and a bit arrogant. He also trusted in the fact that the Roman military would keep him in control of Rome's affairs. These flaws in his character and trust in the military proved useless to the "dagger. The daggar problem was one that haunted Augustus and all the emperors that followed.
Anthony tricks Brutus into letting him give a soliloquy at Caesar's funeral. He uses the opportunity to sarcastically implicate Brutus and Cassius in Caesar's murder. He says that Brutus considered Caesar "ambitious" using his speech to use Brutus' own words against him.