Julius Caesar Soliloquy Analysis

Authors use soliloquies to reveal characters true thoughts and feelings. William Shakespeare as well uses them in his tragedy Julius Caesar for the same purpose. In first three acts author uses them in scenes with each Brutus, Caesar, and Antony, which showed what these personages really think and feel. These soliloquies were created in order to advance both a plot and a character development of a play. First important soliloquy belongs to Cassius, who actually is an initiator of the whole conspiracy. After some attempts to persuade Brutus to follow it, Cassius is discussing with himself: “If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius, / He should not humor me. I will this night,/ In several hands, in at his windows throw, / As if they came from several citizens, / Writings all tending to the great opinion / That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely/ Caesar’s ambition shall be glancèd at. (1.2 310 - 316).
Cassius has his own reasons to get rid of Caesar, but without a help of Brutus, it seems hard. He speaks to himself about his plan to throw up the letters about Caesar’s ambition to

These three men are unhappy with what is happening. Antony, as the most royal to the Caesar, is grieved by his death, and, right after, he shows it by saying: “O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the noblest man / That ever livèd in the tide of times. / Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!” (3.1 269 - 273). Antony also talks about the revenge which conspirators will get from the people.He talks about “fierce civil strife” (3.1 278) and the appearance of “Caesar’s spirit” (3.1 285) which is a foreshadowing of the future events. Antony, although he does not agree with Brutus and blame him for Caesar’s death, he believes that Brutus is a “ noblest Roman of them all” because of his actions for the good of Rome,