shakespeare the tragedy of julius caesar

Brutus, Caesar’s friend and ally, fears that Caesar will become king, destroying the republic.

As the action begins, Rome prepares for Caesar’s triumphal entrance. The first part of the play leads to his death the second portrays the consequences.

Entire Play Caesar’s assassination is just the halfway point of Julius Caesar.

Upon discovering his body, Antony declares that Brutus was the noblest Roman of them all. Brutus, upon hearing of his partner’s death and seeing the tide turn against his soldiers, asks a friend to hold his sword while he runs into it. In a misunderstanding, Cassius thinks his best friend Titinius is captured and he kills himself.

Brutus, Cassius, and the other conspirators are driven out of Rome, while Antony teams up with Caesar’s nephew Octavius, and civil war breaks out.īrutus sees Caesar’s ghost the night before the final battle at Philippi, and his spirit is avenged on the battlefield. Antony uses his clever rhetoric to stir the crowd into mutiny, showing that Caesar was not ambitious, and that he had left gifts to the Roman people in his will. While Brutus is determined to let the people of Rome know that what the men did was out of love for their country in a long speech, he also agrees to allow Marc Antony, Caesar’s right-hand man, to give a eulogy for the fallen leader. When he sees that Brutus has also betrayed him, he says, “Et tu, Bruté? Then fall, Caesar.” In other words, he acknowledges that Brutus’ betrayal is the sharpest cut of them all, and it is that which bursts his heart and kills him. Cassius and other conspirators convince Brutus that the people of Rome are fearful of Caesar’s ambition, and they resolve that they must kill him.ĭespite many supernatural omens, dreams, and warnings, Caesar ventures out to the Capitol on the Ides of March, and there he is stabbed 33 times by six conspirators, including his best friend Brutus. Cassius, a greedy nobleman, sees an opportunity to manipulate Brutus’ patriotism into action against his best friend. Caesar is now the last of the Triumvirate, and the people want to make him king. Brutus is an honorable, patriotic man, and the best friend of Julius Caesar.

Shakespeare the tragedy of julius caesar