Artemidorus calls out, "Read my letter great Caesar! Please, read my letter". Caesar replies, “Fine, I guess I should put my self first just this once after hearing about all these insane envisions having to do with my death". Caesar opens the letter and immediately starts reading what he thought was supposed to be a letter of warning. Caesar's jaw drops open as he reads at the top of the paper in huge letters, "ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR” following the signature of Marcus Brutus at the bottom of the paper. Caesar can't believe what he just read, especially to find that his best friend Brutus was in the midst of this mess. Caesar decides with great anger that he is going to fix this problem by plotting revenge to kill …show more content…
Artimidorus's help just wasn't enough. The day Caesar was supposed to be assassinated turns into the night Caesar will go out on his own to kill Brutus. Caesar leaves his house at 11pm sharp in order to have Brutus's death be remembered as the day Caesar was supposed to be assassinated. Caesar approaches Brutus's window and gingerly climbs in to make his way over to the side of Brutus's bed where he is sound asleep. Caesar very quickly pulls out his knife and without thinking twice he stabs Brutus in the heart with all his might. Portia suddenly wakes up and screams for her beloved husbands life. Caesar dashes out the window he had come through and heads straight for the streets leading back to his home. The next morning Caesar wakes up with a huge load of regret for the actions he did late last night. Portia shows up at his door and screams at Caesar about why he would do such a thing. Calpurnia over hears their conversation going on at the front door so she runs over to see what all the fuss is about. Caesar is leaning against the door frame with tears rolling down his
Brutus is in his garden and decides that Caesar has to be killed. He reached this conclusion because he thinks that Caesar is abusing his power and that he rose in power too quickly. Brutus' servant, brings him a letter that he found in Brutus' room. The first line of the letter says, "Brutus, thou sleep'st. Awake, and see thyself" Brutus thinks that the letter was a request from Rome to kill Caesar.
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is about the assassination of Julius Caesar. The conspirators against Caesar recruit Brutus, who had great influence over the people of Rome and was trusted by Caesar. With his help they attack Caesar in the senate. At his funeral Mark Antony, a friend of Caesar's, is aloud to speak and he is able to turn the people against the conspirators. This causes a Civil war between Rome and the conspirators.
Caesar would have stayed home but then Decius convinced to go to work of the pride he should have. Then Caesar goes to work where there he would be stabbed 23 times by Casca, Cassius, and Brutus. He was assassinated of pure jealousy. The senators were afraid of what might become of Rome if Caesar was king.
But, as he was ambitious, I slew him.” (JC 3; 2; 26-28). Contradicting Brutus’s point, Antony shows Caesar to be unjustly and misguidedly assassinated in his eulogy.
Brutus assassinated Caesar, what? two thousand years ago, and here’s a high school drop-out with a twenty-five and hour job in Dallas, Texas who knows who he was. And they say fame isn’t fleeting…” Booth is trying to explain to Oswald that instead of killing himself and becoming his own victim, to kill the heart of
Then Brutus stabbing him just brought Caesar completely down and weakened him even more to see that his best friend would do this to him. As the crowd here's this, the crowd goes into complete rage, anger, and mutiny. “ Revenge! About! Seek!
In view of, Caesar becoming to ambitious, Brutus kills him. As Brutus begins to speak out at the funeral he asks,“Had you rather Caesar living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead to all free men?”(Shakespeare 42). With this
Julius Caesar was found dead in the Capitol Hall, on March 15. Many will ask “Wasn’t Caesar about to become king?” or “Who would do such a thing?”. Well, it was all very unexpected. “I told him that he should watch out for the Ides of March about a month in advance.
Brutus has a vision, and he intends it to work out in every way he plans. In a sense he achieves what he wants, and killing Caesar may have been crucial to his short-lived success.
His story of Caesar’s death riles up the crowd, but not enough to satisfy his desire for chaos. Antony furthers the crowd's emotions by comparing the crowd’s current actions to what Brutus’s would be in the same
In this scene Caesar has been murdered by the conspirators including Brutus. Brutus is one of Caesar's good friends who is driven by honor; who thought Caesar’s ambition was going to be the end of Rome. Antony is a very loyal friend of Caesar’s who does not agree with the conspirators. Brutus and Antony are both smart well thought out characters. They desire to persuade the commoners to their side of the situation.
Samantha Durand 27 October 2015 Dunipace 4th Julius Caesar Essay Brutus is the Tragic Hero William Shakespeare wrote “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” to tell the story of the tragedy that happened to him. When Caesar was going to become king, his own friends turned into conspirators against him. Since the conspirators said that Caesar would abuse the power of being king, they decided to murder him for the sake of the Roman people.
Brutus loves Caesar but knows he has to kill him for the good of rome. He says, “I know
Caesar is brought to the senate where he eventually is stabbed by the conspirators, his friends, his allies, and the people he trusted. The conspirators didn’t think of the reproductions of their actions and they have now started a war. They lose the battle against Mark Antony, some conspirators commit suicide, and some are executed. Shakespeare wanted us to develop sympathy for Julius Caesar through the betrayal of his friends, his overthrow of power, and the ultimate death of his once friends.
Here, the soothsayer is warning Caesar to take extra precautions on that day, as something horrible (death) might happen to him. The next warning is from Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia. Calpurnia began noticing several different unusual before Caesar’s death, such as her dream “She dreamt tonight she saw my status, / Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,/ Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans/ Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it” (II.ii.76-79), which literally foreshadowed the scene after Caesar’s death. Caesar’s next warning is slightly different, is in form of a letter, written by Artemidorus stating the plan of the conspirators, and which conspirators exactly were in on it, and it states “if you read this o Caesar, thou mayst live” (III.i).