Conspirators In Julius Caesar

In the classical play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a group of conspirators plot to murder an influential figure in their government in fear of his rise to tyranny. Among these conspirators includes Cassius, the primary conspirator responsible for gathering influential figures, such as Brutus and Casca, for Caesar’s death. One of the more notable accomplices and close friend to Caesar, Brutus, only endeavors to execute Caesar for altruistic objectives. Whereas most conspirators, including Cassius, propose to assassinate Julius Caesar because of their envy of his increasing amount of power.

Caesar provides the best description of Cassius to his friend, Mark Antony, upon passing, in which, “Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much, such men are dangerous” (Act I, sc. II, 1106). The characterization is indefinite when Cassius first enters the story by proclaiming to his companion, Brutus, that he rarely notices the love that was common for Brutus to express to his friends. When Brutus responds that he had been recently experiencing

II, 1104). Also, while on a trip to Spain, he witnessed an event in which Caesar “did shake… His coward lips did from their color fly and that same eye whose bend doth awe the world did lose its luster… and that tongue of his that bade the Romans mark him and write his speeches in their books… cried… as a sick girl” (Act I, sc. II, 1104). With Caesar’s fragile condition, Cassius questions how “a man of such feeble temper should get the start of the majestic world and bear the palm alone” (Act I, sc. II, 1104), suggesting that Caesar is not healthy enough to carry out his duties with his epileptic episodes, and this vulnerability will be deciphered by enemies as a weakness of the