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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…
Julius Caesar anyway? He’s great. He thought. Mercury started walking down the streets trying to act normal.
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
him “I do not recognize you. What is your name?” Brutus looked questionably at Mercury. Mercury froze. “Um…. Mercurius Theius Godius…..” Mercury put on his best poker face and tried not to cringe at his terrible fake name he now had to stick with. “Mercurius Theius Godius….. Welcome to the Liberators. I’ll see you on the Ides of Martius,” Brutus shook Mercury’s hand and walked away. Ides of martius…. I’ll have to warn him and tell Apollo of my findings. Mercury ran faster than the speed of sound to the palace of the sun. He burst open the doors and shouted, “THEY WANT TO KILL HIM ON THE IDES OF MARCH!” Mercury froze as he saw dozens upon dozens of eyes look at him. Apollo was holding a party in which several Nymphs, harpies and satyrs were attending. Even the god Bacchus was there. They were none too pleased to hear someone shout that there would be a murder anytime soon. “Kill who?” One satyr shouted. The room was still. Apollo glared at Mercury from his golden throne. He was the least pleased person in the palace. He pointed at Mercury, then at himself, then at the door. Mercury left the room feeling incredibly awkward. “Mercury I swear to Jupiter, this better be good,” Apollo walked out of the palace and the party continued with loud crashes of breaking glass. “The roman senators plan to assassinate him on the ides of martius.” “Julius Caesar? I knew it… Who did you see there?” “Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and more than half of the roman senators.” “Great Jupiter. It is too late to stop this plot. You must warn Julius Caesar yourself.” “What?! Me? No way, I have my limits Apollo. Get Juno or someone else. I am NOT talking to him. I’ve done enough for you.” “Yes you are. You know how much Juno hates mortal men and women anyways.” Mercury sighed. He saw his defeat and left the glorious sun palace begrudgingly. Over the next few days Mercury went to the Liberator meetings and reported his finding to Apollo. Everytime Apollo would ask if he had spoken a word to Julius and Mercury would say no. This made Apollo increasingly more impatient with Mercury, for the ides of march was not getting any farther away. “Mercury, I sent you to do a job for me. Now do it!” Apollo would demand. Mercury would always groan and say “I am doing it!” Apollo would then go on a rant on how he told him to talk to Julius and how he wouldn’t do it. This repeated for the span many, many days almost exactly the same each time. Finally the fateful day of March 15 44 BC arrived. Mercury knew he had to stop slacking off and tell Julius Caesar of his ill fated death. So he rushed down to the place where all the liberators and the senate were going to assassinate him. Lucky for Mercury Julius had not arrived yet.
“Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius that you would have me seek into myself - For that which is not in me?”
...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.
The book Julius Caesar is full of happiness, conspiracy, power, and betrayal. The people of Rome deeply loved julius Caesar and wished to make him their king. A group of senators however were not so fond of this idea and formed a conspiracy. The leader of this group was a man by the name of Cassius. In order to make sure that his scheme of killing Caesar would work and would look honorable he had to convince a senator by the name of Brutus to help. After being convinced that they had to kill Caesar to protect Rome from a tyrant Brutus joined the conspiracy and soon became the principal conspirator.On the day in which Caesar was to be crowned king he was on the way to the senate when he was stabbed by all the conspirators panic ensued and to convince Rome of their honorable intentions Brutus gave a funeral speech. Mark Antony, a very close friend of Caesar, gave his speech after Brutus had given his. Mark Antony’s speech is more persuasive to the Roman people because of his outstanding use of pathos, sarcasm, and logos.
Caesar presently had. Brutus is a supporter of the republic government. Brutus says, " We
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” (3.2.24) This quote reflects the motive of Brutus for the assassination of his friend, Caesar. I believe Brutus killed him not out of disrespect, but in a selfless act to protect Rome from the decree of Caesar yet to come. I also believe that he did this out of force from the manipulation from his “friend” Cassius. In Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar”, Brutus’ two most significant characteristics are virtue and unconscious hypocrisy. In order to fully understand these characteristics, it is necessary to analyze all other contributing characteristics, the manipulation of friendship that Cassius uses against him, and the motivations for
“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.
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.
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.
Caesar's death was a most tragic event indeed, for he would have made a great Roman monarch. However, there were many unheeded warnings. caveats which might have averted his death. In the first act itself we see that Caesar comes across a soothsayer. who fore tells that the future holds terrible things for Caesar.
of Apollo: "A prophet? Listen to me and learn some peace of mind: no skill in
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.
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.
“Into what dangers would you led me, Cassius that you would have me seek into myself-For that which is not to me?”
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.
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.