Act V, Scene I Octavius and Marc Antony enter the fields of Philippi with their armies. A messenger arrives to Octavius and Antony to report that Brutus and Cassius' armies are ready for battle. Since he is the more experienced soldier, Antony tells Octavius to attack from the left, but Octavius tells Antony no and says he will attack from the right and Antony may attack from the left. Antony asks Octavius why he is questioning his decision, but Octavius stands firm on his decision. Octavius asks Marc Antony if their armies should attack first, but Antony tells him they will wait for the opposing side to attack first. Octavius and Antony meet with Brutus and Cassius and the leaders trade insults to one another. Octavius unsheathes his sword …show more content…
and says that Caesar's death must be avenged and that he will not put down his sword again until another Caesar (meaning himself) is killed. The four leaders insult each other further before parting to prepare their armies for battle. After Octavius and Antony leave, Brutus and Lucillius have a private conversation, while Cassius calls Messala to do the same. Cassius tells Messala it is his birthday and explains a few bad omens he crossed recently such as two eagles descending onto the highest ranking banners of their army and sitting there and feeding from the soldiers' hands, but that this morning they are gone. Cassius goes onto continue that now, only ravens, crows and other scavenger birds fly over the army as if they were carcasses and prey. Cassius walks back over to talk with Brutus before the fight, and begins discussing that the future is uncertain; that if their armies are to lose, they will never see each other again. Cassius asks Brutus if he would allow himself to be led through Rome as a captive if they lose, and Brutus replies that he would rather die than to walk the streets of Rome as a prisoner. Brutus also tells Cassius that “today must end the work the ides of March began” and ends with telling Cassius,“for ever, and for ever, farewell”. Cassius repeats this back to Brutus, and the two men depart. Act V, Scene II The battle begins and the two sides surge against each other. Brutus sends Messala to report to Cassius that he has a feeling there is a weakness in Ocatvius' army and that he will continue to move his army forward to take advantage of it. Act V, Scene III Cassius and Titinius are standing on a hill together watching the battle. While Brutus was correct in sensing Octavius's weakness, he was too eager in his attack and now Octavius' army has the upper hand in combat. Pindarus now tells Cassius that Marc Antony's troops have entered Cassius's camp. Pindarus advises Cassius to flee and Cassius refuses. Cassius sees tents catching fire and asks if they are his, and Titinius confirms they are, Cassius then notices advancing troops in the distance. Cassius gives Titinius his horse and tells him to find out whose troops they are, so Titinius obeys him and rides off. Cassius tells Pindarus to stand on a nearby hilltop and alert him of Titinius's progress. Pindarus tells Cassius that Titinius is surrounded by the unknown men and when Titinius descends from his horse, the unknown men cheer. Upset by the news of what he presumes to be his best friend's capture, Cassius tells Pindarus to stop watching for him. Pindarus walks down the hill, and Cassius hands him his sword. Cassius covers his eyes and asks Pindarus to kill him, which he agrees to. Pindarus thrusts the sword into Cassius, and while dying, states that Caesar has been revenged with the very sword that killed him. Shockingly, Titinius now walks with Messala, watching the battle as the armies fight on with no sign of stopping. While Antony's army was able to defeat that of Cassius', Brutus's troops were also able to destroy Octavius's army. Titinius and Messala then discover Cassius's corpse. Titinius now realizes that the cheering appeared to Pindarus as a capturing of Titinius. The unknown troops were members of Brutus's army and Cassius misunderstood their cheers of reunion as chants of blood thirsty enemies. Messala leaves to tell Brutus of Cassius's suicide while Titinius is left to mourn his death. Morose over the death of a man he admired so, Titinius kills himself. Brutus, Messala, and Brutus's men return to find both Cassius' and Titinius' bodies. Upon seeing the slain men, Brutus cries “O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!” Brutus then orders for Cassius's body to be moved, and the men set off to battle again with the armies of Marc Antony and Octavius Caesar. Act V, Scene IV Brutus begins to prep himself for another battle with the Romans. In the field, Lucillius acts as though to be Brutus to trick the Romans into capturing him. Antony's men bring Lucillius to Antony, whom recognizes him. Marc Antony then orders his men to go see if the real Brutus is still alive and also says to treat their prisoner Lucillius well. Act V, Scene V Brutus is perched with what little men he has that remain.
He asks his men to hold his sword while he run upon it, and goes onto tell that the Ghost of Caesar has shown to him among the battlefield and he believes his time to die has come. His men advise him to flee, but he denies this; he instead tells them to retreat and that he will reunite with them later. Brutus asks Strato to hold his sword so he may die honorably. Impaling himself on his sword, Brutus says that Caesar shall consider himself avenged, as he upon killing himself acted on motives twice as pure as those with which he killed Caesar. Marc Antony walks up with Octavius, Messala, Lucillius, and the rest of their army. Upon finding Brutus' corpse, Lucillius states that he is joyful Brutus was not captured alive. Octavius decides to take Brutus's remaining men into his own army. Antony speaks over Brutus's body, saying that Brutus was the noblest Roman of all; while the other conspirators such as Cassius killed Caesar out of envy and jealousy, Brutus killed him only because it is what he believed was for the common good. He goes onto state that Brutus was a rare example of a man, and Octavius then says that Brutus shall be buried in the most honorable way and orders for the body to be moved into his
tent. The remaining, living men then depart from the field to celebrate their victory.
Brutus exclaims that the masses are worth more than an individual, that individual who is Caesar. In spite of those beliefs, Cassius offers him salvation. Cassius entices Brutus with the notion of a false faith, the end to his suffering with be at the end of Caesar's life. A dream which Brutus gladly fights when he utters, “ Let us be sacrificers but not butchers, Cassius. And in spite of the men, there is no blood”(2.1.173-175). Brutus offers insight into his notion of worth, he will kill for a righteous deed, an honorable action, but not slay wantonly. Brutus is a true martyr for a deceptive plan, when he says, “I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death”(3.2.41-43). A person of high moral values, an individual who strive to accomplish his ambition, Brutus was the most honorable Roman. However, many would view
Brutus put his trust in Antony to not turn on him at the funeral. He was lead to believe that Antony would only speak good of the conspirators and defend them for the actions they have made. He trusted Antony when he told him he would not express such hate and talk of the bad they did and then later turned against them for the vengeance of Caesar. Brutus told Antony, “You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, But speak all good you can devise of Caesar” (III.i.245-246). He told him that the only way he is going to be able to speak at Caesar’s funeral is if he speaks good of the conspirators. After Antony said his speech, the whole crowd immediately switched and sided with him against them. They wanted nothing more than for Brutus, Cassius and the other contributors to be dead. This reveals that Brutus is shameful for putting his trust in someone who was so close to Caesar. Brutus trusted that Antony wouldn't do anything and just imagined he would be to scared to step up and speak out. This leads to Brutus losing the trust he had for Antony and starting a war between the people and the conspirators. As the war was about to proceed, they all prepped for what was about to happen. Antony and his army completely dominated Brutus’ and lead to many of them fleeing for their lives. Many people died by genocide while other committed suicide. Brutus was among the ones of suicide. He no longer wanted to be alive and felt that he had lived and fulfill what he had wanted. People were dead and he knew he was going to be one of them. Brutus’ last words were, “Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will” (V.v.50-51). He wanted Caesar to know that he can now be at rest because the vengeance he was looking for has been given. Because of all the trust he put in the people that were taking advantage of him, he ended up finishing his life. This reveals that Brutus really did
Each ruler of Rome seemed to have made poor decisions, and this is exactly what occurred with Brutus. Brutus became very naïve. All of the conspirators confronted Brutus with the idea of killing Mark Antony. They believed he would continue Caesar’s legacy but Brutus thought differently. Brutus added, “And for Mark Antony, think not of him, for he can do no more than Caesar’s arm” (Shakespeare, 24). He proposed that Antony was too weak for them to worry about while this was actually what brought about his fall. When the murder of Caesar had concluded, Antony wished to speak in honor of Caesar. Brutus agreed with the idea but Cassius was hesitant. Cassius insulted, “You know not what you do. Do not consent that Antony speak in his funeral. Know you how much the people may be moved by that which he will utter” (Shakespeare, 44). Cassius feared that Antony’s persuasive speech would turn the citizens against the conspirators. Brutus continued to ignore Cassius’s warning, but was proven wrong immediately. The locals were influenced by Antony and led an angered march to end the conspirators. Brutus caused their arrangement to fail by lack of
“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. I have no personal reason to strike at him—only the best interest of the people”Nevertheless Brutus did not strike down Caesar for personal gain, he striked Caesar so that Rome could live. Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards; For Antony is but a limb of Caesar: Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius” However Brutus was against killing Marc Antony, he was not willing to kill a man out of coldblood, and he would not be marked as a killer in the eyes of the people, he would rather be seen as a defender of the country, he also was against spilling unnecessary blood. Brutus did not want to be a butcher he had only one intention and that was to save Rome. Not start a blood bath. Brutus was against spilling unwanted blood, why kill a man who did nothing to deserve his
Brutus is considered an honorable man by all those who live in Rome. He is a close friend of Caesar, husband of Portia, and is also a Senator. Brutus is drawn into killing Caesar by Cassius, who was jealous of Caesar's degree of power. Brutus was pulled into the scheme by letters brought to his house by Decius to make him think that the people of Rome wanted him to replace Caesar. Brutus also feels that Caesar is being given too much power and will destroy Rome's democracy. Brutus' reason for killing Caesar is to benefit Rome, he proves this when he states"If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." After losing to Mark Antony and Octavious, Brutus runs onto his own sword. He sticks to his beliefs, not altering them for others.
Brutus has a naive view of the world. He is unable to see through the roles being played by Cassius, Casca, and Antony. He does not even recognize the fake letters were sent from Cassius. Then Brutus says,“You shall not blame us Antony, in your funeral speech, but speak all the good you can of Caesar.
The conspirators, Brutus and Cassius being the most important, assassinate Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, better known as Antony, and Octavius Caesar, Caesar's heir to the throne, revenge Caesar's death. Antony convinces the Roman populous to destroy the conspirators and eventually begins a war with Cassius and Brutus' armies. Both Cassius and Brutus commit suicide to save their honor, and Antony and Octavius win the war. The characterizations of Brutus and Cassius show a distinct contrast in their character traits and motives for the assassination of Julius Caesar. The play Julius Caesar depicts Brutus to be an extremely noble being who is well respected and honored by all Romans, even his enemies.
In front of the people of Rome at Caesar’s funeral whilst giving his speech, Antony makes up Brutus to up to be this honorable and noble man, nonetheless Brutus is one of the conspirators who ended Caesar’s life. Caesar has been slain by, Trebonius, Cinna, Cassius, Brutus, Ligarius, Decius, Metellus and Casca. All because most had felt that he was too ambitious for their liking, Cassius has manipulated each one of them into committing the crime alongside him. Once Caesar is killed, Brutus delivers his speech, saying, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more”(lll.ii.20). Basically just trying to justify the reason he helped to kill one of the most loved Romans in all of Rome. Antony then comes out and begins his speech at Caesar’s
This turns out to be very foolish by Caesar, not. Long after this mockery, Caesar is stabbed by a group of conspirators. After Caesar is murdered, Brutus allows Mark Anthony to address the crowd at Caesars funeral. However, there is one condition, Brutus. instructs Anthony "You shall not in your funeral speech blame us."
Brutus was one of many Romans with noble bloodlines. Although Brutus was noble, he never used it to get ahead. There are many times when Brutus could have used the fact that he is truly noble but he didn’t. Many people argue that a noble man wouldn’t have killed Caesar. In some ways that is true, but Brutus’ case was different. A noble man would only for the good of others and that is what Brutus did. He killed Caesar because 7he was afraid of how powerful he could become. Even then he had a hard time doing it, and that is what separates Brutus from the other conspirators. Every other conspirator had little or no reason to kill Caesar. Brutus was willing to do anything for Rome. During his speech about Caesar’s murder Brutus stated “I have the same dagger for myself when it shall please my country to need my death” (III.ii.45-46). This shows how Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” (III.ii.20-22). He was too passionate about his country to let Caesar turn it into a dictatorship. Mark Antony and Octavius recognized that Brutus was the one noble roman. In his final speech mark Antony said “This was the noblest roman of them all. / All the conspirators save only he/ Did that they did i...
While Brutus sees life as something to be solved with logic and guided by morality, Mark Antony views life as something that he can twist and mold into whatever he needs it to be at any given moment. Mark Antony uses the audience of the funeral speech as tools to wrench the Roman Republic from the hands of Brutus and place the crown on his own head. He inspires rage and distrust in the plebeians, and directly spurs on the Battle of Philippi. Brutus is roped into this situation despite his unselfish motives, and has to defend himself and his fellows against the armies of Mark Antony and the young Octavius. From beginning to end, the characters of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar are true to their defining qualities and do not depart from the molds they have cast of
He passionately described the deeds Caesar performed in behalf of the citizens of Rome, which clearly contradict the opinion of the conspirators that Caesar was too ambitious. Antony carefully uses irony in referring to Cassius and Brutus as honorable men; the strategy wins over the citizens and they listen with growing anger to his words. He leads the citizens to the body and begins to show the brutal results of the murder while simultaneously influencing them to believe that the conspirators are murderers and traitors. Ultimately, Antony reads Caesar’s will, which leaves his parks, private estates, and newly planted gardens to the citizens of Rome.
Shakespeare presents the audience with a number of character interactions between the Roman soldiers to show Antony’s former greatness, rank and stature. They regularly use imagery of...
Revenge is also apparent when Antony organizes an army to defeat the conspirators and brings them to justice. Since revenge is a central theme, Antony uses much effort into organizing the army which will defeat Brutus. He must not only act in front of Brutus so that Brutus will let him make his oration at Caesar's funeral, but he also has to use much effort into composing his oration. When discussing which one of the conspirators should die, Antony suggests that his own brother Publius should also die,
He began justifying his actions to himself, soliloquizing that he was not jealous of Caesar’s power, but afraid for the Roman Republic of what Caesar may become, saying “I know no personal cause to spurn at him, / but for the general. He would be crowned:/ How that might change his nature, there’s the question.” (II.i.10-14). He passionately stated that although Caesar showed no signs of being corrupt, ambition and power morphed people into condescending, cruel rulers – thus killing him would be the heroic thing to do, saving the people from tyranny and oppression. (II.i.20-28). By predicting that Caesar would be a harsh king, and that he would become a king at all, Brutus made excuses for agreeing to kill Caesar and satisfied his own needs to be validated as an honorable person and a