Which character is described as joining the conspirators to avert tyranny in Rome?

• A. Antony
• B. Calphurnia
• C. Brutus
• D. Caesar

Answer: (C)

Brutus joins the conspirators because he believes removing Caesar is necessary to avert tyranny and protect Rome’s liberty. He wrestles with a clash between personal loyalty to Caesar and a duty to the republic, and his sense of honor and virtue leads him to act to prevent what he sees as the rise of a kingly power. In this view, the conspiracy is a preemptive move to safeguard the state, and Brutus is portrayed as the figure who places the common good above private friendship.

Antony is Caesar’s ally who later turns against the conspirators, Calphurnia is Caesar’s wife who warns him but does not participate in any plot, and Caesar himself is the intended ruler the conspirators aim to stop.