Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Cassius and Brutus are the main characters in these three scenes.

Brutus is, at the start of the play loyal to Caesar but Cassius

persuades Brutus to murder Caesar. Through Cassius's devious and

articulate method of speech Brutus is impelled into thinking this

course of action is to the good of Rome and reluctantly agrees and

joins with Cassius. Cassius being the main figure in this scene does

much of the talking which largely contrasts with Act 2 Sc. 1. Now

Brutus dominates the scene. After Cassius has rounded up a number of

others to unite with them they all meet up. We can see that Brutus is

now firmer than he was before making longer speeches with confidence.

In addition to this he starts to make commanding decisions. Act 4 Sc.

3 is where Brutus has sent Cassius a message that he wants to meet

him. After Cassius arrives they are engaged in a heated argument where

accusations are made and met. Cassius being intelligent himself uses a

number of cunning methods to recover, which will be mentioned later

on. After it is revealed that Portia has died and suddenly all the

tension is brought to a stop and shortly the scene ends.

In Act 1 Sc. 2 Cassius is by far the dominating character. He is very

intelligent and has devious persuasive powers in this scene. Cassius's

main objective in this scene is to persuade an innocent Brutus to

actually murder the current leader of Rome, Julius Caesar. The first

reaction we get from Brutus is disagreement, but slowly Cassius works

on him and at the end Brutus reluctantly agrees. The first method

Cassius uses is to soften Brutus up. This achieved by making Brutu...

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... Cassius creates shorts arguments through out the scene.

The first one of these arguments take place on line 33:

"Go to! You are not Cassius"

"I am"

"I say you are not"

This argument is about weather Cassius is Cassius. Offcoarse this is

stupid but it keeps the scene flowing from one person to another.

The second one of these would start at line 83:

"I denied you not"

"You did"

"I did not"

This takes place after Brutus accuses Cassius of not sending him

money.

After this Cassius looks for some sympathy.

"He was but a fool who brought

My answer back"

He says this hoping that Brutus will realise his mistake and forgive

Cassius and feel sympathetic towards him.

Now comes Cassius's self-dramatising speech. He also draws self pity

into the first part of the speech.