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- While Brutus worries about what Caesar’s power could mean for the Roman people, Cassius resents how Caesar has become a god-like figure. Further, Cassius repeatedly suggests that tyrants come to power when the people allow their power to be stolen.
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While Brutus worries about what Caesar’s power could mean for the Roman people, Cassius resents how Caesar has become a god-like figure. Further, Cassius repeatedly suggests that tyrants come to power when the people allow their power to be stolen.
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Brutus is persuaded to act when he does because he thinks it will be easier to kill Caesar while his ambition is still an ‘egg’, destroying it before it’s ‘hatched’ and becomes stronger and more destructive.
Cassius puts his trust in Brutus, letting him take the lead in the conspiracy and knowing that the public are more likely to support Brutus because of his family’s popularity. ‘Let Antony and Caesar fall together.’ (Cassius, 3:1)
Jul 31, 2015 · Brutus overrides Cassius’s objections and insists that they march to Philippi to challenge Mark Antony and Octavius. As Brutus reads in his tent after the meeting, he is visited by the Ghost of Caesar, who threatens to visit Brutus again at Philippi.
Brutus, with the ghostly visitor of the previous night fresh in his mind, also interprets Cassius’s death as the doings of a vengeful Caesar. In believing himself immortal, Caesar opened himself up to his murder by the conspirators, and his death seemed to disprove his faith in his own permanence.
Jan 10, 2024 · Given the staging choices and the height discrepancies between the actors, Cassius dies with Caesar bestriding over her like a Colossus. Yet, the tone of Caesar’s appearance during Brutus’s death is completely different than in Cassius’s. Instead, Brutus embraces Caesar and death like an old friend.
In this lesson, we will continue to read Brutus and Cassius' interaction in Act I Scene ii, except this time we will read it in Shakespeare's original English! We will use everything we have already learned to investigate how Cassius is trying to manipulate Brutus.
