Throughout Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius are shown to be foils to one another when Brutus is displayed as noble, while Cassius is displayed as manipulative. The first instance of this is during the Feast of Lupercal when Brutus is speaking with Cassius

about Caesar. "Brutus: I do fear the people choose Caesar for their king. Cassius: Ay, do you fear it? Then I think you would not have it so. Brutus: I would not Cassius, yet I love him well." Brutus is telling Cassius that although he fears that Caesar is becoming too powerful, he loves him anyway and would not think to do anything to harm him. Cassius is manipulative because he is trying to find traits in Caesar that Brutus dislikes to get him to join his conspiracy to kill Caesar. Cassius also says to Brutus: "Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings. ‘Brutus' and ‘Caesar'. What should be in that ‘Caesar?" Why should that name be sounded more that yours? Write them together: yours is as fair a name. Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well. Weigh them, it is as heavy. Conjure with ‘em: ‘Brutus' will start a spirit as soon as ‘Caesar' . . . " Here, Cassius is trying to get Brutus to see that Caesar is no better than he is and that the people of Rome love Brutus just as much as they love Caesar. This is manipulative of Cassius because he is trying to show Brutus that the stars do not control his fate, but that he does and if he wanted to become more powerful than Caesar he could and that he can do something to stop Caesar from becoming too powerful. Cassius even says that he is trying to manipulate Brutus to go along with his plans in his soliloquy: " Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed." Cassius is saying that Brutus may be noble but that he has found a weakness in Brutus that he will manipulate to his advantage. The final evidence of Brutus and Cassius being foils of each other is when Cassius is trying to give Brutus the final "nudge" that he needs to join the conspiracy. Cassius instructs a fellow conspirator, Cinna, to write messages around Rome that say how much the people love Brutus and not Caesar. Cassius also tells Cinna to place a note in Brutus's home, "proprietor's chair", that says that Brutus should "Awake, and see thyself! Speak, strike, redress!". This means that Brutus should awake to see that the people of Rome want him and not Caesar. This is very manipulative of Cassius because he is using the fact that even though Brutus loves Caesar and is very loyal to him, that if the people wanted him and not Caesar, then Brutus should do something to please the wants and needs of

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