The Leadership Of Cassius And Brutus In Shakespeares
Causes[ edit ] Denarius portraying Brutus obverseminted in 43—42 BC. Caesar had served the Republic for eight years in the Gallic Warsfully conquering the region of Gaul roughly equivalent to modern-day France. After the Roman Senate demanded Caesar to disband his army and return home as a civilian, he refused, crossing the Rubicon with his army and plunging Rome into Caesar's Civil War in 49 BC. After defeating the last of the opposition, Caesar was appointed dictator perpetuo "dictator in perpetuity" in early 44 BC. He also joked about their news, saying that his honours needed to be cut back instead of increased. Marullus and Flavus, the aforementioned tribunes, were not amused, and ordered the man who first cried "Rex" arrested.
In a later senate meeting, Caesar accused the tribunes of attempting to create opposition to him, and had them removed from office and membership in the Senate. Mark Antonywho had been elected co-consul with Caesar, climbed onto the Rostra and placed a diadem on Caesar's head, saying "The People give this to you through me.
Caesar removed the diadem from his head; Antony again placed it on him, only to get the same response from the crowd. In just a few months, Caesar had disrespected the Senate, removed People's Tribunes, and toyed with monarchy.
Trials And Tribulations In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
By February, the conspiracy that caused his assassination was being born. While it took only one man to murder another, Brutus believed that for the assassination of Caesar to be considered a legitimate removal of a tyrant, done for the sake of their country, it Shaksspeares include a large number of Rome's leading men. They preferred friends to acquaintances and recruited neither reckless youths nor feeble elders. In the end, the conspirators recruited senators near the age of forty, as were they.
The men assessed each potential recruit with innocent-sounding questions. Cicerothe famous orator, was trusted by both Cassius and Brutus, and had made it no secret that he considered Caesar's rule oppressive.
Brutus Speech In Julius Caesar
He also had great popularity among the common people and a large network of friends, which would help attract others to join their cause. He revealed that he had personally approached Antony the summer before and asked him to join a different Cassis to end Caesar's life, and Antony had turned him down. This rejection to the old conspiracy caused the conspirators to decide against recruiting Antony.]
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