He says that he fears that the people have elected Caesar their king. Cassius has the green light now and presses his case. He speaks of how Caesar oversteps his bounds by calling himself a god when he is only a man and not a very strong one at that. He recounts saving Caesar from drowning. He describes the fever that left Caesar groaning and trembling.
Another offstage shout adds urgency to what Cassius says. Brutus is swayed. With Caesar's return to the stage — not crowned as Cassius and Brutus expect — he looking unhappy and is none too pleased that Cassius is lurking about with "a lean and hungry look.
So Caesar sees Cassius as a good Roman. Cassius thus cannot be categorized as good or bad — like all the other actors in this drama, he is complex and very human. Caesar's insight into Cassius' character reveals Caesar to be an intelligent and effective man, but as Caesar leaves the stage he reveals a physical weakness that represents a moral and intellectual weakness: He is deaf in one ear and can hear only one side of the issue — Antony's.
Caesar and Antony exit, with the latter calming Caesar's fears. The others remain onstage. Casca describes to Cassius and Brutus what all the shouting had been about, how Caesar had to tried to build enthusiasm for his ascent to the throne by pretending disinterest.
The plan backfired and the crowd shouted not because they wanted him to be crowned but because they were responding to the theater he had created, as they "did clap him and hiss him, according as he pleas'd and displeas'd them, as they use to do the players in the theatre.
Casca reveals his own sympathies when he mentions that he had trouble keeping himself from laughing at the scene, and Cassius invites him to dinner in order to convert him to the conspirators' cause. Brutus, not yet converted, is nonetheless sympathetic and suggests that he and Cassius get together the next day to discuss it further.
The scene finishes with Cassius alone on stage. He mistrusts Brutus' nobility and his loyalty to the state, and decides on a ploy to convince him. Having determined the possibility of Brutus' open mind, he will write flattering letters that seem to come from the people and will throw them in Brutus' open window.
He could not do this with any hope of success, however, were he not aware that Brutus' mind was open to the suggestion. Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Now, in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man? Cassius employs rhetorical questions to drive his point further home: when has there ever been such a time in the history of the world, ever since the biblical flood the story of which we have analysed here , when one man alone dominated the political scene?
The implication is that Caesar will allow for no one else to take his mantle or power away from him. Cassius concludes his speech by reminding Brutus, his companion, that his namesake founded the city of Rome centuries before. This earlier Brutus would have let a devil rule in Rome before he let a king rule.
After all, Rome was founded as a republic, i. Caesar is suspicious of him because he does not delight in things such as plays and music, and hardly ever smiles. He states that Cassius is to be feared, rather than outright saying he fears him. Well, I have been trying to find the answer of this as well. Caesar is sorta like an Emperor Constantine was A Caesar.
No but the Caesar was his mentor and loved him like his son. King Caesar sounds like something out of a fiction story. Julius Caesar was a real person. However the term "king Caesar" may have been used to refer to Julius Caesar in a derogatory way especially with the Roman attitude toward kings. Log in. William Shakespeare. Roman Empire. Study now. See Answer. Best Answer. Study guides.
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