Read the Passage From the Act 2, Scene 1, of the Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Brutus. Kneel Not
Julius Caesar, Regal Shakespeare Company, 2009
TL;DR (may contain spoilers): Julius Caesar is warned of the ides of March, ignores it, and dies; plebeians are manner too hands swayed; all the conspirators die as well.
Julius Caesar Summary
Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Mark Antony drives the conspirators out of Rome and fights them in a boxing. Brutus and his friend Cassius lose and kill themselves, leaving Antony to rule in Rome.
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Act I
The tribunes of Rome, Marullus and Flavius, break upwardly a gathering of citizens who want to celebrate Julius Caesar'southward triumphant return from war. The victory is marked past public games in which Caesar's protégé, Marking Antony, takes part. On his way to the loonshit, Caesar is stopped by a stranger who warns him that he should 'Beware the Ides [15th] of March.'
Boyfriend senators, Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, are suspicious of Caesar's reactions to the power he holds in the Democracy. They fear he will take offers to become Emperor. He has been gaining a lot of ability recently and people care for him like a god. Cassius, a successful general himself, is jealous of Caesar. Brutus has a more than counterbalanced view of the political position. The conspirator Casca enters and tells Brutus of a anniversary held past the plebeians. They offered Caesar a crown three times, and he refused it every time. But the conspirators are still wary of his aspirations.
Act Ii
Cassius, Casca, and their allies plant false documents to manipulate Brutus to join their cause to remove Caesar. Afterward doing then, they visit Brutus at night in his home to persuade him of their views. At that place they plan Caesar'due south death. Brutus is troubled only refuses to confide in his devoted wife, Portia. On 15 March, Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, urges him not to go to the Senate. She has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of the overnight storms.
The fault, honey Brutus, is non in our stars, but in ourselves.
— Julius Caesar, Act ane Scene ii
Act 3
Caesar is nevertheless persuaded by flattery to go to the Capitol. At the Capitol, he is stabbed past each conspirator in turn. As Brutus gives the final accident, Caesar utters the famous phrase:
Et tu, Brute?
— Julius Caesar, Human activity iii Scene 1
Human activity III
Against Cassius's advice, Brutus allows Mark Antony to speak a funeral oration for Caesar in the market place place. He is allowed under the condition that start Brutus must address the people to explicate the conspirators' reasons and their fears for Caesar's ambition. After Brutus speaks, the crowd becomes calm and supports his cause. However, Antony, in his speech, questions the motives of the conspirators and reminds the crowd of Caesar's benevolent actions and of his refusal to accept the crown. He as well reads them Caesar's will, in which Caesar leaves public country and money to each Roman citizen. Antony'due south speech stirs the crowd into a murderous riot, and the conspirators are forced to flee from the urban center.
Human activity Four
Brutus and Cassius get together an regular army in Northern Greece and gear up to fight the forces led by Mark Antony. Antony has joined with Caesar'southward bang-up-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. After making amends, they prepare to engage Antony's regular army at Philippi, despite Cassius' misgivings about the site. Brutus stoically receives news of his wife's suicide in Rome. He and so sees Caesar'due south ghost every bit he tries to rest and is unable to slumber on the eve of the conflict.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
— Julius Caesar, Act 1 Scene 2
Act Five
In the battle, the Republicans (led past Brutus) appear to be winning at first. But when Cassius' messenger's horse seems to be overtaken past the enemy, Cassius fears the worst and gets his servant to help him to a quick death. After finding Cassius'south torso, Brutus commits suicide. He believes this to exist 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 render to rule in Rome.
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