Topic > Comparison between Juliet and Brutus in Romeo and...

Shakespeare portrays Brutus and Romeo differently in all the way they behave in situations that involve influences between them. Brutus was a people pleaser. He did everything he could to make everyone happy. When he learned that no one, or it would be better to say "no one", liked Julius Caesar, he immediately turned into a conspirator. It's not like he was a follower. Brutus did not follow the conspirators. To some extent he followed their opinions, but it was only because he believed that no one liked Caesar and that Caesar was not fit to be a leader, it was because Brutus wanted the best for the people around him, so Brutus went with them. . Romeo, on the other hand, did it on his own. He wasn't a follower. Romeo killed a man out of anger and not to please people; it was for revenge. Romeo didn't necessarily care what others felt about him. He clearly demonstrated this by dating his enemy's daughter, Juliet. If he had been a people pleaser, he would have initially joined the fight along with the rest of his friends, as he had been tempted to do. Brutus joined the group and killed someone, Romeo did not. Romeo eventually joined them to some extent because he was driven by revenge to kill someone, not forced by other people. Romeo and Brutus are portrayed differently because of how Brutus is people-pleasing and Romeo is