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Who Says Caesar Thou Art Revengedeven With the Sword That Killed Thee? In Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar: Plot Summary

Act 5, Scene one
Human activity five opens on the plains of Philippi. Octavius and Antony gloat their expert fortune that Brutus and Cassius have heedlessly come down from the hills. Octavius demands to lead the more important army division, despite his inexperience. Brutus and Cassius make it with their men, and the opposing leaders concord a brief briefing. The commutation, short and biting, ends with Octavius and Antony storming away.

In a moving voice communication Cassius tells Messala that he fears the upcoming battle. Although Cassius is not a superstitious, he cannot help but detect that the two eagles who accompanied the regular army on their long trek from Sardis have at present flown away and in their place hover ravens, crows, and kites, who make "a canopy most fatal, under which/Our army lies, prepare to give upwards the ghost." (88-nine).

Cassius asks Brutus what he plans to do if they should lose the battle. Brutus rejects suicide, calling it "cowardly and vile" (104), only he also insists that he will never render to Rome every bit a prisoner. Before they rally the troops, Cassius and Brutus bid a solemn cheerio to 1 some other:

If we do meet again, nosotros'll grin indeed;
If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.
Deed five, Scene 2
The boxing has begun. Brutus sees an opportunity to strike Octavius' forces, which appear to be weakening, and he sends Cassius orders to set on immediately.

Act 5, Scene 3
On a colina in another function of the battlefield Titinius, a soldier and friend to Cassius, warns his commander that Brutus gave the word to attack prematurely, and Antony's men have them surrounded. Pindarus, Cassius's servant, rushes in with news that enemy troops are in the very tents of Cassius'southward headquarters. He begs Cassius to flee for his life. Cassius refuses and sends Titinius to make certain that they are non Brutus' men that have entered his camp. Pindarus ascends the hill to report on Titinius' movement. What he sees is grim indeed:

Titinius is enclosed round about
With horsemen, that make to him on the spur;
Yet he spurs on. Now they are nigh on him.
Now, Titinius! Now some light.
O, he lights too. He'southward ta'en. (28-32)
Cassius knows that he likewise volition soon be captured by Antony and Octavius, and will certainly be dragged through the streets of Rome in chains. He orders Pindarus to aid him commit suicide: Come hither, sirrah:
In Parthia did I have thee prisoner;
And and so I swore thee, saving of thy life,
That any I did bid thee exercise,
Chiliad shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath;
Now be a freeman: and with this skillful sword,
That ran through Caesar'southward bowels, search this bosom. (36-42)
Pindarus holds the sword steady. Cassius impales his chest on the blade. "Caesar, g art revenged/Fifty-fifty with the sword that kill'd thee." (45-6). Pindarus flees every bit Titinius returns with Messala. Titinius was not captured by Antony -- Pindarus has fabricated a terrible mistake. They come to tell Cassius that Brutus has defeated Octavius' troops, but, instead, they find Cassius's body. Messala leaves to inform Brutus, and Titinius laments the loss of his dearest friend:
Why didst one thousand ship me forth, dauntless Cassius?
Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they
Put on my brows this wreath of victory,
And bid me give it thee?
Didst thou not hear their shouts?
Alas, k hast misconstrued every thing! (80-85)
Titinius takes Cassius' sword and kills himself. Brutus arrives and sees the bodies of Cassius and Titinius. He cries, "Are yet ii Romans living such as these?/The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!" (98-9). For Cassius he has special words:
Friends, I owe more than tears
To this dead homo than you lot shall run into me pay.
I shall discover time, Cassius, I shall notice time. (102-3)
Brutus then announces that he plans another siege, this time against Antony.

Act 5, Scene 4
Antony proves too strong and Brutus is forced to retreat. He orders his men to remain fighting on the field. Lucilius pretends to exist Brutus and is captured. When Antony arrives he sees that they have the incorrect homo, but he praises Lucilius' bravery and spares his life.

Human action 5, Scene 5
Brutus and his few remaining servants assemble at a rock. He asks Clitus and then Dardanius to kill him to avert capture, but they pass up. He then implores Volumnius as a friend to assistance him commit suicide. Merely Volumnius too refuses: "That's not an part for a friend, my lord." (29). As the enemy troops draw near, Clitus, Dardanius, and Volumnius flee and Brutus remains behind with some other retainer, Strato. He convinces Strato to hold the sword for him as he runs upon it. With his final words Brutus addresses Caesar:

Caesar, now be still:
I kill'd not thee with half so good a will. (50-1)
Antony and Octavius arrive and detect Brutus' body. Antony, knowing that Brutus was a valiant defender of Rome, delivers a tribute conforming and then honest a man:
This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators salve only he
Did that they did in envy of slap-up Caesar;
He only, in a full general honest idea
And common skillful to all, made 1 of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world 'This was a man!' (68-75)
Octavius sends Brutus' torso to his own tent until they can arrange a proper burial and the play comes to close: "And then phone call the field to residuum; and let's away/To part the glories of this happy day" (80-81).
How to cite this article:
Mabillard, Amanda. Julius Caesar Plot Summary. Shakespeare Online. 20 Aug. 2000. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/juliuscaesar/juliuscaesarps3.html >.
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Did You Know? ... Unlike many of Shakespeare'southward other dramas which suffered periods of unpopularity, Julius Caesar has remained a constant fixture of both British and post-independence American theatre. Eerily, in 1864, just a yr before he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Berth performed in a product of the play in New York, along with his brothers Edwin and the appropriately named Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. After he shot Lincoln, Booth apparently yelled out "Sic semper tyrannis" or "Thus ever to tyrants", the same phrase Brutus is said to have used as he murdered Caesar.


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