Julius Caesar

They are fickle. When Brutus speaks, they go along with Brutus; when Antony speaks, they go along with him. And since Antony is arousing them to feelings of violence and hatred, he is much more successful than Brutus, since crowds are much more easily incited to violence and hatred than to reasonableness. Current events show us that this has not changed one iota since then.

Julius Caesar seemed to have a "hit 'em hard and fast" philosophy about war. He was known for his fast marches enabling him to surprise the enemy. He also had the Roman attitude of winning at all costs. The siege of Alesia with its still traceable trenches is a prime example of this.

Spurrina is the old soothsayer who first warns Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March." As Caesar enters the Senate building on that fateful morning he passes Spurrina on the road and cheerfully calls out that the Ides had arrived and he was still alive, to which Spurrina replied" "Yes, the Ides have come, but not yet passed."

The cast of Julius Caesar - 1979 includes: Darien Angadi as Cinna Roger Bizley as Metellus Brian Coburn as Messala David Collings as Cassius Terence Conoley as Popilius Sam Dastor as Casca Alexander Davion as Decius Brutus Anthony Dawes as Ligarius Ronald Forfar as Soothsayer Morgan Freeman as Casca Nicholas Gecks as Volumnius Christopher Good as Clitus Charles Gray as Julius Caesar Michael Greatorex as Varro Garrick Hagon as Octavius Caesar Andrew Hilton as Lucilius Earle Hyman as Cicero Reginald Jessup as Poet Sonny Jim Gaines as Caesar Noel Johnson as Publius Jon Laurimore as Flavius Patrick Marley as Artemidorus Virginia McKenna as Portia Keith Michell as Marc Antony Robert Oates as Pindarus Roscoe Orman as Marcus Brutus Richard Pasco as Brutus Leonard Preston as Titinius William Simons as Trebonius Roy Spencer as Lepidus Elizabeth Spriggs as Calpurnia John Sterland as Marullus Maurice Thorogood as Strato John Tordoff as Cinna the Poet Manning Wilson as Cicero Philip York as Young Cato

Historically, it is said that Julius Caesar made no sound while his peers murdered him except for a grunt at the first stab. He died silently, and with betrayed dignity. However, in Shakespeare's play, it is said that Julius Caesar says, "Et tu, Brute?" ("And you, Brutus?") right before he falls to the ground dead. Brutus was someone Julius Caesar considered a friend, and this quote channels the emotion that he must have felt in his last moments. However, this is merely Shakespeare's interpretation.

In Roman-British Celtic mythology,Brutus is said to have been the founder of the British people.The great grandson of the Trojan Aeneas, he is supposed to have landed at Totnes in Devon and to have subjugated the giants who then inhabited the country.

It means that when Tyrants are ruling, and have control over people or resources, anarchy and rebellion are sure to follow in the wake of Tyranny.

No, Marc Antony was a staunch supporter of Julius Caesar, his second in command at times, and a distant relative. He knew nothing of the plot against Caesar and was the one man that the conspirators feared.

Cassius tells Brutus that Caesar refused the crown of a king three times, but each time he refused it more reluctantly, which convinces Brutus that Caesar has been tempted by the thought of absolute power.

Cassius was the driving force behind the whole group. He was afraid of Caesar gaining too much power and weakening his own political and economic position. Basically, he was greedy, and wanted to keep or increase his own power and wealth.

Unfortunately, Brutus was secondary and crucial to the conspiracy. Being such a close friend to Caesar, and then agreeing to the ultimate betrayal of his murder, he gave credence to the others to follow suit. His motive was to protect Rome from being destroyed by the "tyrannical ruler" Caesar was becoming, as projected by Cassius into Brutus' mind/thinking.

Cassius persuades his friend Brutus, also the friend of Julius Caesar, that Caesar is a threat to Rome. Appealing to his deep love of his homeland, Brutus is persuaded that Caesar is a danger to his country as well as himself. This ultimately leads to the plot to murder Caesar.

Brutus held great respect for Antony, despite Antony's friendship with Ceaser. Antony openly decieved Caeser in Act 3, but following this, he begins to respect Brutus and once finding Brutus's body, he calls him "The nobelest roman of all."

In the beginning of the play, Brutus is trusted by Caesar, and they have a filial sort of relationship. But Brutus plays a large role in Caesar's assassination. Caesar's dying words are, "Et tu, Brute?" (you too, Brutus?) because he can hardly believe that someone he loved and was close to would murder him. Brutus reasons, "Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more." He thinks that killing Caesar was for the greater good, and if you've read the play, you would realize that Brutus's fatal flaw is his nobility. He overthinks everything, always searching for the noble, honorable, "right" thing to do. It was also mentioned that perhaps Brutus was truly Caesar's son, of an affair. At Brutus's funeral oration, Antony says Brutus was "Caesar's angel," although it is never blatantly explained why Caesar trusts and loves Brutus so much, then is betrayed. Although Brutus's honor to Caesar is strong in the beginning, it wavers enough for him to take part in Caesar's murder, but then he sees the effects because of it. By the end of the play, Brutus sees that Rome in the hands of Antony, Octavius, etc is worse than it would have been under Caesar's ruling, and Brutus commits suicide. Note that this question does not have anything to do with the question. The question entails the relationship between BRUTUS and CASSIUS, while this answer is telling the relationship between Brutus and Caeser.

Yes, it's one of his later plays, called Romances. It has an incredibly complex plot, a number of good song lyrics and a surprise appearance by the god Jupiter.

The plot, as easily as I can tell it in a short space, goes something like this: Cymbeline, king of Britain in Roman times, has taken a second wife. By his first marriage he had two sons (which were kidnapped and have disappeared) and a daughter Imogen; by his second, he has a stepson Cloten. The Queen wants Imogen to marry Cloten; instead she marries a man called Postumus. The king is incensed and banishes Postumus to Italy, where he takes a bet from a man called Iachimo that Iachimo cannot seduce Imogen. Iachimo goes to Britain and tries seduction and when that doesn't work, spies on Imogen when she's asleep and learns some things about her body that nobody but her husband should know.

Postumus sends a servant to tell Imogen that Postumus is waiting for her in Wales. The servant is supposed to kill her on the road, but doesn't, and she flees to the protection of some Welsh hillbillies disguised as a boy (a favourite angle in Shakespeare's plots). The hillbillies kill Cloten who is searching for Imogen disguised as Postumus and throw out his head. Imogen comes across the body and thinks it's Postumus with even less brain than usual.

Cymbeline, meanwhile, has been persuaded by the Queen and Cloten to antagonize the Romans who invade, with Iachimo and Postumus serving in the invading army. Imogen (still disguised) attaches herself to the Roman commander as a page. Postumus deserts and switches sides and he and the hillbillies win the battle for Britain. After the battle, in a long scene, everyone reveals their secrets and they all live happily ever after except the Queen who has died upon hearing that Cloten was beheaded.

That's the gist. I said it was complex.

Although many modern cultures recall a "deer" as a imagetic of "gay man", a deer (more often written, as "stag") was, and still is a simbol of power, its horns simbolizing a crown, it moves gracefully. The way it solves many matters (fighting by clashes of head, usually breaking a horn or two) simbolizes the so called "manly way" of doing things work.

All said, a deer is usually simbol of vilrile and noble man.

P.S.: Sorry about my lame English, still studying. ^^

Act 2 Scene 1 lines 311-313You are my true and honorable wife, as dear to me as are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart- Portia is like Brutus' heart because she is so honest and such a great person. He truly loves and cares for her.

Athens and Sparta both had very efficient fighting forces and and were the two powerhouse cities in Greece.

he was alive on July 13, 100 b.c and died on march 15, 44 b.c because of all the senators that stabbed him 23 times. he tried to take full power and become king, and the senators disagreed and Julius was stabbed 23 times, and some of those senators were once his friends.

act 1

scene 1, line 13.

"A trade sir, that, I hope, may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles."

The pun is "bad soles." It has a double meaning of 'bad souls.'

"Truly, sir, all that I live by is with awl"

The pun is with the 'awl,' meaning 'all.'

Julius Caesar was killed in the year 44 BC He was stabbed to death and left with 37 wounds.Brutus, Cassius, Ligarious, Metallus, Casca, Trebonius and Cinna killed him.

Cassius did

In their long conversation which forms the bulk of Act I Scene 2 Cassius attempts to convince Brutus that Caesar is a threat to the traditional values of the Roman Republic.

Cassius' main argument is simply that Caesar is an ordinary man:

I had as lief not be as live to be

In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Cassius tells Brutus that Caesar sweats when he is ill, and that he does not swim as strongly as a younger man:- but the common people of Rome love him (and this is somehow dangerous):

And this man

Is now become a God, and Cassius is

A wretched creature.

None of the conspirators in the play have any substantial objection to Caesar, and Cassius is simply eaten up with envy. Caesar knows this, he says:

Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

But Caesar is too proud to act on his suspicions. This is his weakness.

In the tragedy of Julius Caesar, Portia is the wife of Brutus, the idealist conspirator and main character of the story.