My essay question is “Why does Brutus not want to swear an oath of elegance.”

I believe the answer of this question to be that Brutus does not want to swear an oath because he likes to think himself of a nobler person in the roman society. As a consequence of this all the power that that gives him goes to his head, which in time makes him feel like he is the best around and everyone should follow him. As a consequence in act 2 scene 1 he tries to act like the leader of the conspiracy despite being the newest member, he does this by disagreeing and shutting down all suggestions that people ask (despite most of them being good suggestions). These also eventually come back to haunt him. Such as when he chose not to kill Antony because he thought he was noting without Caesar.