Sympathy

"Et tu, Brute?"

I suddenly feel so much sympathy for Caesar. I didn't really like him in the beginning because he gave off a vibe of having to much pride primarily because he dismissed the soothsayer, calling him "...a dreamer" and he didn't bother with his wife Calpurnia's dream.

I can just imagine the part where that famous line- Caesar looks up at Brutus with sadness and shock in his eyes. "Et tu, Brute?" he says. Brutus lets out a sigh and takes one look at Caesar before turning away.

However, this book offers no depiction of how the scene really is and it makes it very hard to picture anything. Now that I've read this part, it seems almost ironic. What I'm saying is that if you go back to Scene 2 of Act I, you'll see that when the soothsayer says his prediction in the crowd, Caesar cannot hear and asks Brutus "What man is that?" and Brutus answers "A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.” I like the way Shakespeare does this because Brutus is repeating the warning where we all know he will be one of the murderers.

Going back to me being sympathetic about Caesar dying, I still wonder what would’ve happened if Julius Caesar had lived. From reading up to this scene, I’m very confused about whether or not the conspirators killed a great man or not.