Brutus and Cassius are great leaders in their own way. One noble and respected, the other is careful and has the intelligence. This means they work very well with each other but also will need one another. Otherwise Brutus is almost blindly doing what he wants without thinking of the consequences and Cassius doesn’t have enough power to get what he needs for his plans. However which one would do better as a leader if they did not have each other or someone similar?

I think that Cassius would be the better leader. He may not be one of those highly respected people straight off but he would gain his people’s respect with his pragmatic thinking. He thought through his whole plan for murdering Caesar and for someone else to become king or convince Rome that everything is better off not being a monarchy. It succeeded up to the convincing part. Brutus said and decided that it was a good idea not to kill Mark Antony as he was apparently useless without Caesar. Also he did not get the old wise Cicero, who was the best speaker alive in Rome, in the Conspiracy. Then of course the others in the Conspiracy had to agree with him to keep him on the team. This was a big mistake leading onto why Brutus still isn’t a very good leader.