Cassius Conspiring

Act I, Scene 1 begins with the Feast of Lupercal, a parade in honor of the great Caesar who has defeated his enemies in battle. Two townspeople enjoying the feast are interrupted and scolded by Marullus and Flavius, two tribunes who still remember Pompey, who was a Roman general whom Caesar had defeated. While Caesar is paraded through the streets, a soothsayer warns him, “Beware the Ides of March!” The soothsayer does not elaborate, he is foreshadowing of Caesar’s downfall. Meanwhile, Marc Antony, also a general and loyal friend to Caesar, offers Caesar a coronet. Caesar refuses to accept this nomination three times to the applause of the people. This refusal to accept the coronet shows that Caesar is not ambitious at all.

In Act I, Scene 2, Cassius approaches

Caesar was killed because Cassius could not bear him due to the aforementioned reasons and so Cassius convinced Brutus that Caesar would become a tyrannical King. Caesar was brutally and savagely murdered. His death was based on faulty reasoning and cunning deception on the part of Cassius. Brutus’ actions were far too much influenced by the conniving Caius Cassius. Caesar certainly did not deserve his death.

In Act III, Scene 1, Cassius urges Brutus to not let Antony speak at the funeral oration: “You know not what you do. Do not consent That Antony speak in Caesar’s funeral. Know you how much the people may be moved by that which Antony will utter”(3.1.255-259)? Cassius clearly conceives the threat that Antony posses. When Antony does speak it causes Cassius’ plan to fall to shambles as the villagers turned against Brutus, the conspirators and himself. The hatred toward the conspirators only elevated to the point of causing a civil war. This eventually led to their deaths.

In Act II, Scene 1, on March 15 (the ides of March.) Brutus receives an anonymous letter from Cassius urging him to act on the behalf of the people of Rome. Again, Brutus is being deceived by the extremely clever Cassius. However

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