Closeness In Julius Caesar

Before the play begins, Julius Caesar wins a very important battle against his rival Pompey. This leads to a celebratory parade in Rome signifying the end of a long fight and Caesar’s emergence from battle. Not everyone sees Caesar as an ideal ruler for Rome though. In the first scene, two men express their distaste for Caesar by berating citizens and stripping statues that honor Caesar of their decorations. While they’re doing this Caesar enters Rome a hero. Through the parade a Soothsayer warns to “beware the Ides of March,” but his cautions are ignored and the celebration continues (I.i.21). The play then diverts from the public scene and introduces us to Cassius’s and Brutus’s personal life. Their closeness is noted in how Cassius
Already having decided what to do, Brutus quickly becomes the leader of the assassination plans. The men decide how and when to execute their plan and to spare Caesar’s right hand man, Antony, in the process. Not everyone was in agreement with the latter, but Brutus said that if they were to take both lives their “course would seem too bloody” (II.i.169). The men had enough trust in Brutus’s judgment to coincide. With everything set, the conspirators depart to their separate residences for the evening. Meanwhile, Brutus’s wife is pleading for him to confide in her whatever seems to be bothering him. He simply brushes off her concerns, promising to speak to her at a later time. The next morning Caesar is readying himself for the Senate when his wife makes a fuss about him going. Having had a nightmare about men grinning at the sight of her husband’s blood, she fears the dream was a bad omen. But Caesar wouldn’t be one to be subdued by fear, and he states very blatantly so (II.ii.43-50). However, Calpurnia convinces him to stay home not out of his fear, but to ease hers. Plans change again though when Decius, the conspirator in charge of getting Caesar to the Senate, arrives and explains how Calpurnia misinterpreted her dream. Caesar decides in favor of Decius’s interpretation and decides to go, unknowingly falling right into a
He first describes the death of Caesar in detail, then opens the casket for the crowd. Once he reads the will, which makes generous promises to the people of Rome, the crowd becomes furious with the murderers of Caesar. They curse death upon them and set out to fulfill the curse themselves. Upon Caesar’s death, Octavius, his son and successor, arrives in Rome and becomes part of the new republic alongside of Antony and Lepidus. Their first order of business is to deal with Brutus and Cassius, who after exile decided to raise armies and fight. Meanwhile in the conspirators’ camp Brutus and Cassius go back and forth at each other. The two eventually settle and Brutus confesses that his absence has drove Portia to suicide. Later while alone, Caesar’s ghost makes an appearance and tells Brutus he’ll meet him again. Before the big battle problems arise on both sides. The republic struggles with attack patterns because both Octavius and Antony want to give their orders. The conspirators face abandonment and