Get You to Bed Again Julius Cesar
Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company, 2009
TL;DR (may contain spoilers): Julius Caesar is warned of the ides of March, ignores it, and dies; plebeians are way too hands swayed; all the conspirators die as well.
Julius Caesar Summary
Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to bring together their assassination plot against Caesar. To end Caesar from gaining also much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Marking Antony drives the conspirators out of Rome and fights them in a battle. Brutus and his friend Cassius lose and kill themselves, leaving Antony to rule in Rome.
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Human action I
The tribunes of Rome, Marullus and Flavius, pause up a gathering of citizens who want to celebrate Julius Caesar's triumphant render from war. The victory is marked by public games in which Caesar's protégé, Mark Antony, takes part. On his way to the loonshit, Caesar is stopped past a stranger who warns him that he should 'Beware the Ides [15th] of March.'
Fellow senators, Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, are suspicious of Caesar's reactions to the power he holds in the Republic. They fear he volition accept offers to become Emperor. He has been gaining a lot of power recently and people treat him like a god. Cassius, a successful general himself, is jealous of Caesar. Brutus has a more balanced view of the political position. The conspirator Casca enters and tells Brutus of a anniversary held past the plebeians. They offered Caesar a crown 3 times, and he refused it every time. But the conspirators are still wary of his aspirations.
Act Ii
Cassius, Casca, and their allies plant faux documents to manipulate Brutus to bring together their cause to remove Caesar. Later doing so, they visit Brutus at night in his home to persuade him of their views. At that place they plan Caesar's death. Brutus is troubled simply refuses to confide in his devoted wife, Portia. On 15 March, Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, urges him not to become to the Senate. She has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of the overnight storms.
The fault, honey Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
— Julius Caesar, Act 1 Scene 2
Act 3
Caesar is nevertheless persuaded by flattery to become to the Capitol. At the Capitol, he is stabbed by each conspirator in turn. As Brutus gives the final blow, Caesar utters the famous phrase:
Et tu, Brute?
— Julius Caesar, Act 3 Scene 1
Deed 3
Against Cassius'due south advice, Brutus allows Mark Antony to speak a funeral oration for Caesar in the market place. He is allowed under the status that first Brutus must address the people to explain the conspirators' reasons and their fears for Caesar'southward ambition. After Brutus speaks, the crowd becomes at-home and supports his cause. However, Antony, in his speech, questions the motives of the conspirators and reminds the crowd of Caesar'due south chivalrous actions and of his refusal to accept the crown. He also reads them Caesar's volition, in which Caesar leaves public land and money to each Roman citizen. Antony'south speech stirs the oversupply into a murderous anarchism, and the conspirators are forced to flee from the city.
Act IV
Brutus and Cassius get together an army in Northern Hellenic republic and prepare to fight the forces led by Marker Antony. Antony has joined with Caesar'due south great-nephew, Octavius, and with a human being called Lepidus. Away from Rome, Brutus and Cassius are filled with doubts about the hereafter and quarrel over funds for their soldiers' pay. Afterward making amends, they prepare to engage Antony's army at Philippi, despite Cassius' misgivings about the site. Brutus stoically receives news of his wife'southward suicide in Rome. He and then sees Caesar'due south ghost every bit he tries to remainder and is unable to sleep on the eve of the disharmonize.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
— Julius Caesar, Act 1 Scene 2
Act Five
In the battle, the Republicans (led by Brutus) appear to exist winning at first. But when Cassius' messenger'due south equus caballus seems to be overtaken by the enemy, Cassius fears the worst and gets his servant to assist him to a quick expiry. After finding Cassius'due south body, Brutus commits suicide. He believes this to be the only honourable option left to him. Antony, triumphant on the battlefield, praises Brutus every bit 'the noblest Roman of them all' and orders a formal funeral before he and Octavius return to dominion in Rome.
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