Cassius And Brutus In Julius Caesar

In William Shaksphere play Julius Caesar Antony pleeds ''he hath brought many captiver home to Rome whos reasons did the general coffers fill: did this in Caesar seem ambitious''? Caesars lack of ambitious can be seen by Caesar acting in the best intrests of his community. They saw him as a superior solider.

Brutus is a patriot and a nobleman. He is well-off and well respected in Roman society, and Caesar is his personal friend. The reason Brutus turns against caesar and plains to kill him starts when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer, beware the Ides of March. A day later Cassius and Brutus talk about how bad it would be for Caesar to be king. Cassius and Brutus both agree and are unhappy and suspicious of Caesar.

Written in 1599, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar portrays a dramatized interpretation of Plutarch’s historical account about Caesar’s assassination in ancient Rome. Shakespeare uses his source’s historical accuracy to develop a series of complex characters vital to the play’s intriguing plot. Contrary to the play’s title, Caesar is not the tragic hero; in fact the play is composed of two tragic protagonists: Cassius and Brutus (Roland and Gamble 1), the principal conspirators against Julius Caesar. These characters’ weaknesses and strengths underline the tragedy's action. Cassius’ cunning, impulsive, and envious realism, contrasts and illuminates Brutus’ naïve, calm, and noble idealism. Although Cassius and Brutus share a common goal, “to destroy Caesarism” (Myron 43), their individual motives mark the differences in their characters, and the degree of blame each one has in the tragic outcome of the play.

Brutus ended up joining with Gaius Cassius in the plot against julius Ceaser. They both really had hatred and would do anything to go against him. In other words they really just together, wanted to end his life for good. Brutus was not alone with the killing of Julius Ceaser. He had his other senators who joined in his plot.

Antony and Cassius, unlike Brutus, never separate their private affairs from their public actions while Brutus tries to prove himself by acting only with respect to honor and virtue, completely ignoring his personal concerns. For example, Cassius disliked the fact that Caesar became “godlike” in the eyes of the Romans, so he leads Brutus to believe that Caesar had become too powerful and must die by sending him forged letters claiming that the Roman people support the death of Caesar, ultimately converting Brutus to his cause. At last Brutus ends up murdering his good friend in an act he truly believed was honorable. Marc Antony, who also shares in Cassius’ selfish trait, persuaded the conspirators that he is on their side, therefore gaining their leniency. He proceeds to persuade the plebeians of the conspirators’ injustice and gains support of the masses.

I believe that Marcus Brutus was the noblest of Romans. Out of the conspirators, Brutus was the only one who was actually acting in the best favor of Rome. Brutus was the only conspirator who had good intentions for his people. The other conspirators wanted nothing but to see Caesar fall. Brutus on the other hand saw Caesar rising to power as a threat and wanted to remove him, possibly without the use of deadly force. He thought he should be the one to take Caesar’s place.

In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius are contrasting characters. They differ in the way they perceive Antony as a threat to the assassination plot, their dominance in personality, and their moral fiber. In Julius Caesar, Brutus is the more naïve, dominant and noble character, while Cassius is the more perceptive, submissive, and manipulative person.

Brutus in Julius Caesar Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is one of the most debated plays of all time. Shakespeare wrote about a man rising in power, Julius Caesar, who was stabbed in the back by his supposed friends. The two main conspirators were Cassius and Brutus. Brutus and the other conspirators killed Caesar because they were afraid he would become a tyrant and Brutus believed he was doing what was best for Rome, but Shakespeare never specifies what was best so it is up to the reader to decide if they were being noble or wrongdoers.

Both Cassius and Brutus play major roles in the play Julius Caesar. Cassius and Brutus both plan Caesar’s death. Although they are working towards a common goal, Cassius and Brutus have very different motivations for doing this. On the one hand, Cassius sees it as a way to gain more power for himself while destroying the king and all his power. On the other hand, Brutus believes that in killing Caesar he is preserving peace for the Romans’ future years. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses different techniques to create biased characterizations of the two men so that readers and viewers develop identical attitudes towards each of them. In Julius Caesar, Cassius is portrayed as a greedy villain while Brutus is depicted as an

    In the play Julius Caesar, written and preformed by William Shakespeare, there are many characters, but two, Brutus and Cassius, stood out. The play begins in Rome where a celebration of Julius Caesar's victory over the former ruler of Rome, Pompeii. The victory leads to Caesar's betrayal by his jealous companions. Senators and other high status figures are jealous of Caesar's new and growing power, while others, like Brutus, fear the tyrannical rule Caesar could enforce. The conspirators, Brutus and Cassius being the most important, assassinate Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, better known as Antony, and Octavius Caesar, Caesar's heir to the thrown, revenge Caesar's

William Shakespeare the writer of Julius Caesar decided how Cassius would be portrayed in his play. In the play, Cassius has an evil, manipulative personality; he can be your friend one minute then Cassius can be your worst enemy. Although Cassius was not popular with the people of Rome, he became the ringleader of the conspirators.

steps in and says, "O, name him not! Let us not break with him, for he

In act 2, scene 1, Brutus is finally introduced to the group of conspirators; in this act we notice the first mistake Brutus makes. "Alas good Cassius do not think of him. If he loves Caesar, all that he can is to himself, take thought, and die for Caesar. And that were much he should, for he is given to sports, to wilderness, and much company." Brutus believes he has only to explain his reasons for killing Caesar and everyone will accept them.

The connection between Brutus and Cassius is strong, with each event leading to another. Cassius contrasts Brutus by talking him into overthrowing Caesar even though Brutus was noble towards him. “Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept.”/ The conspirators leave Rome and are being hunted down by the civilians after the speech Mark Antony gave that turned the citizens against them. All the conspirators hid in a small camp until they went to war.

Politics come with contrasting opinions. Many people can be for one thing and then for another, thus resulting in a split population. This split population can cause violence in a contrasting belief and uproar from the everyday people can occur. In the tragedy, Julius Caesar, and the real world, political opinions affect the strength of a relationship by completely destroying bonds between individuals.