Summary Of Julius Caesar Act 3 Scene 2

In act III scene 2 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar when Caesar is killed, the people of Rome are shocked and clueless about what happened. Antony, a strong ally to Caesar, promises to get revenge on the conspirators who killed Caesar. By making this promise, Antony gives a speech of the topic of Caesar’s death attempting to be neutral. Antony turns the frustrated and confused crowd into angry rioters by presenting Caesar’s will, talking about the betrayal of Caesar from Brutus, and telling the crowd that Brutus is an ambitious man. When Antony presents Julius Caesar’s will to the people of Rome, it causes them to become stressed rioters. “He feels he wrongs the honorable men whose daggers have stabbed Caesar.” This piece from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is making the Romans feel that the will he must have left was so thoughtful and giving that it would make the people so angered that Caesar was murdered. With the citizens finding out how generous Caesar was to leave the will, it makes Caesar look honorable but the conspirators look cruel. The citizens are livid when finding out the unthoughtful conspirators would kill the giving Caesar who left his will. When the will is presented to the people of the city of Rome,
Antony had said in his speech, “And Brutus is an honorable man.” This must have come across sarcastically to all of the people after all the bad things Antony had said. Antony also says “Ambition should be made of sterner stuff; Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;”.Words like this that Antony said turned the people of Rome into rioters because it was showing that all the good things that he said about Brutus he didn’t really mean. Antony telling the people of Rome that Brutus was an ambitious and honorable man turned them from a shocked, confused group of mourners into an angry mob of