Cassius is the instigator of the assassination against Caesar. He selects Brutus to lead the assassination because Brutus is an honorable man who is respected by the society. Cassius and Brutus are friends, however, Cassius thinks Brutus is gullible and uses him to achieve his ends which are driven by envy against Caesar. Brutus is made to believe that all the conspirators involved are selfless, and are only committing the assassination because of the danger Caesar’s ambition was posing to the republic.
Several “red flags” are apparent to Brutus but he decided to ignore them, for example, when the conspirators wanted Mark Antony to be assassinated because he was a close friend to Caesar. At this point Brutus should have realized that the other conspirators were more after their own personal gains rather than the well-being of the republic.
Cassius portrays Brutus as gullible by the phrase below, which shows that he has won him over completely regardless of the reasons for the conspiracy.
See Brutus at his house. Three parts of him
Is ours already, and the man entire
Upon the next encounter yields him ours.
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