Yet Brutus is Everyman in the sense that every man is Brutus at some hour of his life. Whoever is aware of the parity between what he would be and what the world seems bent on making him is a Brutus in a general sense. More specifically, Brutus is the man of sensitive nature who, outraged by the cruelty and tiranny aruond him, sadly and reluctanly concludes that there is no way to oppose the world but with thew world's weapons, that fire must drive out fire as force force.

He represses, but he cannot erradicate, that abborrence of force which, by definition, must be inherent in every lover of liberty.

Goddard, H., The meaning of Shakespeare