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How Does Brutus Create Suspense In Julius Caesar

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The use of theatre imagery in Julius Caesar provides suspense for the audience. "The audience sees the characters in action, listens to their dialogue, and sometimes enters their thoughts..."(McMurtry 36). In the moment of deciding to join the conspiracy, Brutus expresses that from the predicament in which one makes a decision to commit a deplorable act to the moment that the act is performed, the feelings that occur are unimaginable and surreal, as if one is in a terrible nightmare. Arrogance tends to take over one's conscience. Brutus reveals this by stating, "Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream..."(2.1.64). As the play progresses, the members of the conspiracy

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