Themes

The general theme is the killing of Caesar. It is the concept of whether the killing of a king is just understandable as a means of ending (or preventing) the cruelty of dictatorship. Brutus plays a great part in this general theme. Brutus kills Caesar in the name of liberty, fearing that absolute power and Caesar's view of himself as more than a mere mortal will enslave Rome to the will of a single man.