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Act 2, scene 2. Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. Brutus, unable to sleep, paces in his orchard. He talks to himself, reasoning that he has nothing against Caesar personally. However, kingship might change Caesar, leading him to abuse his power. Caesar, then, should be regarded as a “serpent’s egg” that must be crushed before it ...
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Brutus is a high-ranking and well-respected Roman, husband...
- Act 1, Scene 1
Pompey had previously co-ruled with Caesar, but then they...
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BRUTUS. The exhalations whizzing in the air Give so much...
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Samuel Thurber. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. ____ ACT II Scene 1 We must imagine that an hour or more has passed since the end of Act I, for it now is nearly daylight of the 15th of March. A little later Cassius hears a clock strike three. Brutus' orchard.
Have Lucilius and Titinius guard our door. Brutus and Cassius, once close allies, argue over military strategies and face internal discord. Their disagreement exposes growing tensions within the conspirators. They agree to withdraw to Brutus’ tent to resolve their differences away from the view of their soldiers.
Brutus is awake late at night. He tries to justify killing Caesar, saying that although Caesar seems honorable now, there is too great a risk that he may be corrupted by power. Brutus reads one of the letters that was left for him. The letter accuses him of not taking action to prevent corruption in Rome. When Cassius and the conspirators visit ...
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In the middle of the battle they are losing, Brutus exhorts his demoralizedtroops to gather their courage. Filled with a desperate bravery, young Cato,Brutus’s brother-in-law, dashes headlong into battle and is killed by Antony’ssoldiers. Lucilius is captured and, to confuse the enemy, tells them he isBrutus, offering them money to kill him as such...
In a far corner of the battlefield, Brutus, defeated, rounds up the remnantsof his army. He tells Volumnius, a soldier, that the ghost of Caesar hasappeared before him on two nights, once in Sardinia, and then again “this lastnight, here in Philippi fields.” Certain his death is near, Brutus asksVolumnius and the soldiers Citus and Dardanus to assi...
In the final two scenes of the play, the action hurtles to itsby-now-certain end. The number of the idealistic dead pile up, particularly inthe form of Young Cato, adding to the bleakness of the proceedings. The motifof mistakes and miscommunications spills over from the early scenes, withAntony’s soldiers mistaking Lucilius for Brutus. Through the...
Brutus will now act: "If the redress will follow, thou receiv'st / Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!" (Line 57). Lucius now returns, announcing that fourteen days of March have been wasted, it is the 14th of March just one day before "the ides of March" the day the Soothsayer warned Caesar about...
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Jul 31, 2015 · Act 5, scene 5. Brutus begs four of his followers to assist him in his suicide. All but the fourth decline. Brutus kills himself. Antony praises Brutus as the only honorable conspirator, and Octavius orders Brutus’s funeral rites. Enter Brutus, Dardanus, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius. Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.
