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“Mercury, get over here. I have a job for you,” Apollo shouted. Mercury ran over to the god of prophecy in a flash. “Y-yes Apollo? What is it this time? I mean… I got a lot of things to do, but I can spare you a message. Who for? Diana? Minerva? ...Proserpina?” Mercury guessed. He always kept a very busy schedule, being a messenger of the gods and all. “No Mercury. I need you to watch over the roman senators. I believe they are coming up with conspiracies for my favorite human, Julius Caesar’s death.” “Okay… ?” “Just… go down there and act like a normal roman senator.” Before he knew it, Mercury was sent off to the great Roman Empire. Alrighty. My first “spy” mission. This shouldn’t be too hard. Who would want to kill …show more content…
He honestly wasn’t going a very good job and some of the people thought we was insane. He later dressed himself as a roman senator and went to very long and boring senate meeting. He saw the likes of Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and Julius Caesar’s close advisor, Marcus Junius Brutus. After the meeting he later heard word of a secret meeting discussing Julius Caesar. This caught Mercury’s eye so he decided to attend the meeting. The room the meeting was held in was very wet and cold. As Mercury stepped in he could feel the dampness weigh on his skin. Soon the senator, Gaius Cassius Longinus spoke to the group. “Fellow Liberators I thank you for coming. Julius Caesar is gaining too much power. We MUST assassinate him for the safety of the Roman Republic!” Cassius stated boldly. Many of the other senators nodded in agreement. As Mercury looked around he saw the face of Marcus Junius Brutus and was in shock. Why on earth would Brutus be here? Julius saved his life and kept him as a close advisor. He appointed him to several important post! Betrayer! “-Is the day we will go to the senate meeting. Make sure you bring your finest daggers.” Brutus ended the meeting and many conspirators left. Dang it. I didn’t hear that date… Mercury wishes he payed more attention and left the room of conspirators. Brutus saw him and stopped
Cassius believes that he should not be ruler of Rome for a few very specific reasons, so to combat this he convinces Marcus Brutus to join his conspiracy by forging fake letters. Brutus is very honorable and is loved by many people in Rome, so he would bring the people to their side. On the 15th of March Caesar went to the capital despite the multiple warnings he was given. Calpurnia ,Caesar’s wife, dreamt of his statue running with blood and begged him to stay home. Although Caesar ignored it when Decius convinced him that it represented the good and richness that he would bring to Rome.
“Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius that you would have me seek into myself - For that which is not in me?”
entering Brutus had said to himself that Caesar must die. Brutus is also a very smart
Cassius needed a reason to motivate Brutus to join the conspiracy so that the plan would develop. “Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness…” (1.2.34) Cassius is saying that Brutus hasn’t been as affectionate toward him as he typically is. Maybe he suspects something is wrong with Brutus and he thinks it has something to do with Caesar. But I think he didn’t really care about how Brutus was treating him, he was just “buttering him up” so to say. Brutus thinks that Cassius is just being his friend and trying to help, when in reality Cassius is manipulating him. This manipulation of friendship is what drives the rest of the play. Brutus has a hard time seeing through this manipulation of Cassius and it ends up driving him to assassinating his friend, Caesar. Cassius fabricated letters to make them seen like they were from the people of Rome saying that they wanted Brutus as their leader. These letters were really the controlling factor of the assassination because they gave Brutus another reason to assassinate Caesar. Cassius then realized how easy it was to manipulate Brutus. “Well, Brutus, thou art noble. Yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed. Therefore it is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced?” (1.2.320-324) Cassius is saying that even
“Remember March, March 15th. Didn’t great Caesar bleed for the sake of justice?” afterwards Brutus reminds Cassias of the reason he killed Caesar it was to save Rome, Great Caesar bled so Rome could live. Brutus loved Caesar as a friend, but he did not think he would be right to lead. “The only way is to kill Caesar.
One of the first occasions presented was the plotting of Caesar’s assassination. Cassius, Casca, Trebonius, Ligarius and the other conspirators all wanted to rid Rome of Caesar. However, not one of them could give the green light.” They needed one who held a high place in the hearts of the people, to support them and to justify their actions. They needed an “honorable” man. Without this man, the conspirators would not be called conspirators for they would not have had sufficient strength to see it through. In that, there would not have been a conspiracy. Marcus Brutus agreed to be their source of strength. This final decision to join Cassius and company marked the end of Julius Caesar.
Apollo quickly learns Meg is a demigod. Meg claims Apollo as her servant. Apollo explains his predicament. He wishes to get to Camp
of Apollo: "A prophet? Listen to me and learn some peace of mind: no skill in
...the Capitol before the Senate change their minds. Because Caesar does not want to give the image that he is weak, Decius includes the image of “break up the Senate till another time, when Caesar’s wife shall meet with better dreams.” Caesar does not want the Romans to think of him as weak, hiding behind a woman, so he is going to go to the Capitol. Decius attempts to make staying home sound weak, and Caesar does not want to appear weak. Decius’s argument in the second half is very effective, as it focuses on the things that Caesar himself is concerned with, which is power and money.
“Into what dangers would you led me, Cassius that you would have me seek into myself-For that which is not to me?”
With this speech, Caesar seals his fate. After disregarding three separate warnings that his life would be in danger and he still goes to the Senate that day, Caesar sits surrounded by the noblemen and denies their request to revoke the banishment of Cimber. He denies fate and believes that his free will is enough to save him. His ego and self-importance grows stronger by the word, as he compares himself to the brightest star in the sky. He is stabbed to death by men who, until they were convinced otherwise, had been loyal to Rome and Caesar. By the end of the play, Caesar’s supercilious opinion of himself proves true.
Some of the conspirators feel that Caesar has become too powerful so they conceive a plan to kill him. A conspirator named Cassius throws flattering letters through the loyal Brutus's window saying that he should be emperor of Rome. On the 'Ides of March' the conspirators and Caesar all meet at the Senate House. That is when all the conspirators kill Julius Caesar one by one.
Cassius is the leader of the conspirators. He is jealous of the power that Caesar holds and wants for himself. Caesar says that Cassius"...Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks to much. Such men are dangerous.", meaning that he looks sneaky and is not to be trusted. The whole idea to kill Caesar begins with Cassius, he convinces the other Senators to do as he wishes. Cassius commits suicide because he is afraid of what will happen to him if Mark Antony and Octavius find him. Another reason for his suicide is because he believes that his men have lost the battle and he does not want to face the consequences.
The Seer warns Caesar to 'Beware the Sides of March' (the fifteenth of March), which he foresees to hold terrible danger for Caesar. However, the snares are still a bit snare. Caesar thinks him to be a common fool and does not pay attention to him. I will be a sailor. However, it is later seen that if Caesar had heeded the soothsayer's warnings he might have escaped his death as the conspiracy chooses that very day to carry out their planned murder.
The conspirators had already decided how and when they would kill Caesar, and Brutus, Cassius, along with Decius, knew they had to lure Caesar close. They had an advantage at this because they knew that all they would have to do was prove to Caesar that they had a good, solid friendship, and this would help their situation and leave Caesar completely sightless to the fact that his situation had grown dire. So they decided to use their friendship with Caesar in a horribly deceptive manner, effectively, in order to kill him. Decius managed to start this off well by using flattery and quick wit in order to trick Caesar into going to the senate house, despite the fact that Caesars wife, Calpurnia had dreams of Caesars murder the night before.