Casca relates that Antony offered a crown to Caesar three times, but Caesar refused it each time. While the crowd cheered for him, Caesar fell to the ground in a fit. Casca then departs, followed by Brutus. Just as Caesar himself proves fallible, his power proves imperfect. The implication that Caesar may be impotent or sterile is the first—and, for a potential monarch, the most damaging—of his physical shortcomings to be revealed in the play.
This conversation between Brutus and Cassius reveals the respective characters of the two men, who will emerge as the foremost conspirators against Caesar. Brutus appears to be a man at war with himself, torn between his love for Caesar and his honorable concern for Rome. Cassius remains merely a public man, without any suggestion of a private self. Cassius recognizes that if Brutus believes that the people distrust Caesar, then he will be convinced that Caesar must be thwarted.
Cassius, in contrast, has made himself adaptable for political survival by wholly abandoning his sense of honor. Ace your assignments with our guide to Julius Caesar! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. What are Flavius and Murellus angry about at the beginning of the play? How does Cassius die? Was assassinating Caesar the right decision? If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theater, I am no true man.
Casca is suggesting, by describing Caesar's "clap[ping]" and "hiss[ing]" fans, that political leaders like Caesar are nothing but actors on a very public stage.
This concept isn't a new one. Shakespeare also explores the relationship between acting and politics in plays like Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2. Yet Casca's critique of Caesar and his followers seems pretty modern. His remarks could apply to just about any 21st-century politician and his or her supporters.
On the other hand, as warnings of impending events, omens suggests that human beings have the power to alter that destiny if provided with the correct information in advance. Ace your assignments with our guide to Julius Caesar! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. What are Flavius and Murellus angry about at the beginning of the play? How does Cassius die? Was assassinating Caesar the right decision? Why does Cassius hate Caesar? What is the significance of the comet?
Why does Caesar refuse the crown when Antony offers it to him? What happens to Murellus and Flavius? Cicero then departs and Cassius enters.
He interprets the supernatural happenings as divine warnings that Caesar threatens to destroy the Republic. He urges Casca to work with him in opposing Caesar. When Cinna, another conspirator, joins them, Cassius urges him to throw a message through Brutus' window and to take other steps that will induce Brutus to participate in the plot.
The three conspirators, now firmly united in an attempt to unseat Caesar, agree to meet with others of their party — Decius Brutus, Trebonius, and Metellus Cimber — at Pompey's Porch. They are confident that they will soon win Brutus to their cause. Scene 3 opens with the natural world reflecting the unrest of the state. Casca, soon to be a conspirator, is unnerved by what is going on. Cicero, a senator and thus a representative of the status quo, is, on the other hand, blissfully unaware of the danger at hand.
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