The Ides of March is a day on the traditional Roman calendar that matches up with the date March 15th on our current calendar. This date is commonly associated with the assassination and death of Julius Caesar in the year 44 B.C. Caesar was warned during mid-February that the next thirty days were to be filled with lots of danger and problems. The haruspex, Spurinna, warned it would all end on the Ides of March.
There were said to be many different plots to kill Caesar and for several reasons. One reason was that Caesar was to be named king in mid-march to be able to conquer Parthia. Brutus and Cassius, the main conspirators, were magistrates of the Senate. This meant they would not be allowed to oppose the crowning of Caesar nor
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This caused another reason for Caesar to be killed. The senators feared his power ,and that he would overthrow the senate in general tyranny. Around sixty senators came to the conclusion that Julius Caesar needed to be killed in order to save Rome.
The conspirators never met in open places ,so they would meet at someone’s house. There were many ideas and proposals from the large group of men. One suggestion was to kill him during a gladiatorial show. Another idea to kill him on his daily walk along the Sacred Way ,but they all agreed on the plan of killing him at the Senate. They could all be there and hide their daggers and knives in each person’s toga.
Friends of Caesar heard rumors of his assassination ,but he never listened to their warnings. Doctors advised him not to go to the meeting with the Senate because of medical issues. Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, begged him not to go based off troubling dreams she had been having. Brutus, one of conspirators, then persuaded Caesar into coming by saying ‘, What is this, Caesar? Are you a man to pay attention to a woman’s dreams and the idle gossip of stupid men, and to insult the Senate by not going out, although it has honored you and has been specially summoned by you? But listen to me, cast aside the forebodings of all these people, and come. The Senate has been in session waiting
In document C, Brutus persuades Caesar to go to the senate despite the warnings that Caesar received. Brutus must have been up to something since he
“Caesar attended the last meeting of the Senate before his departure, held at its temporary quarters in the portico of the theater built by Pompey the Great (the Curia, located in the Forum and the regular meeting house of the Senate, had been badly burned and was being rebuilt). The sixty conspirators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Brutus Albinus, and Gaius Trebonius, came to the meeting with daggers concealed in their togas and struck Caesar at least 23 times as he
The conspirators urged Caesar to let him remain where he was instead of banishing him. Caesar being Caesar he did not let him stay. This decision would reassure the conspirators that they are making the correct decision. Caesar would then be murdered by the conspirators with Brutus, once his companion, stabbing him with a knife to end his notorious arrogant
“It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crowned” (Act II, Scene i, Line 10-12). In this quote, Brutus has solidified part of his reason to join the conspiracy and kill Caesar. Throughout the first two acts of Julius Caesar, Brutus struggles with an extremely difficult decision. He can either join the conspiracy or allow Caesar to be crowned. During the first and second act, Brutus’s thoughts change periodically about the whole situation. By the end of Act II, he persuades himself to cross over to the group that will take Caesar out of power. Therefore, he is completely and utterly convinced that Caesar must die before rising to power.
Caesar believed that the conspirators should have all the harshness and unpleasantness of the death penalty, but not get out of the punishment so quickly by dying. Caesar also remembers that the Republic and their ancestors rarely ever used the death penalty, so he believes that they should not use this form of punishment to deal with the conspirators. Caesar believes that wise men will never face death willingly, but brave men will, making the point that these men are not brave, but they are just trying to destroy the Republic for their own betterment. Caesar wanted all the conspirators to be put into separate neighborhoods and their goods and possessions to be taken away from them and burned or
The major conspirators that convince others to overthrow Julius Caesar were Casca, Cicero, Murellus & Flavius. These 4 manipulators play on the emotions of the towns people to make them believe that Caesar was an evil man, who once became their King, would treat them very badly and turn Rome into a dictatorship. They use some very unusual events that were happening in Rome at the time to prove to others that these signs were bad omens of things to come. They spread fear throughout the town and convince a mob of people that Caesar must be killed before becoming King of Rome.
Finally, Caesar had learned that some enemies take things to the next level for getting back at him through drama. One of the most iconic things ever done by Caesar’s enemies were when a group of his rivals gathered together to make a plan to kill him. As the men were discussing the plan in small groups, Brutus, Caesar’s old friend, was debating whether or not to be a part of the assassination. So some of his enemies were certain to kill him while others thought they shouldn’t. The ones ending up dropping out were the ones that were once close friends. This situation called a wide variety of drama that ended up ending his life, though that drama created that history about him.
Besides that, when they planned for the Parthian expedition, Cassius did not get any important command, although he was a skilful soldier and had great acquaintanceship of the enemy's country. Another example was Basilus who was annoyed because he had not been allowed to become a governor. They purposely censured him and promulgated calumnious reports about his arrogance after conceiting him. Besides that, Caesar was killed because he was accused of wanting to be the tyrant. In this case, Brutus, who was the descendant of "tyrant-slayers", was exploited by Cassius to assassinate Caesar. Brutus saw the murder of Caesar as a sacred duty, and a duty peculiarly and urgently incumbent upon himself. It is obvious that the conspirators all had personal motives for killing Caesar. Hence, it was wrong for the conspirators to kill Caesar without reasonable grounds.
The first reason is the republic was already gone, the second reason is that Brutus would be committing treason, and the third reason is that Caesar was loved by the common people. By the time, the conspiracy began to come to be, the Roman republic was in decline almost to the point of no return. The senators were corrupt, one man was in control of the entire military, and the people were unhappy. The empire would eventually be ruled by a dictator. When they made the choice that Caesar had to go, all they were doing is kicking the can down the road.
believing he had aspirations for kingship and ultimate power. These ideas were the start of a conspiracy against a man that they believed would be the downfall of their great Roman Republic. Ultimately his death was a result of various scruples against Caesar held by senators and some of Caesar’s closest friends, which created an animosity that made Caesar’s death inevitable.
Most people in in world may not like someone so to take them down they gather as many people as they can to take that person down. The conspirators want Caesar to be gone so they do whatever it takes to take down Caesar and do what he wants once Caesar is gone, that was his plan. Caesar in my opinion doe not deserve what they put him through. They want to have all the power that Caesar has and more. So to do that they take Cesar down.
Caesar’s boundless power was not agreeable to all of the Senate. Sixty members of the Senate, led by Marcus Brutus, secretly plotted to assassinate Caesar and restore power to the Senate and Republic. Marcus philosophically tested members of the Senate to determine who would support the cause, least he be discovered before the deed could be carried out. Cassius, Labeo, Brutus surnamed Albinus, Tillius Cimber and Casca were among the sixty senate members willing to support Marcus. The conspirators determined the best opportunity to carry out the deed non-conspicuously was during a Senate meeting in which Caesar
That is until Decius tells Caesar that he shouldn’t be coerced by his wife’s dreams and Caesar decides to go with him to the Senate House. In the streets on the way to the Senate House is Caesar’s last warning. Artemidorus has written him a letter telling him the names of all the conspirators. On the way to the Senate house Artemidorus tells Caesar to read this scroll immediately and Caesar replies “What, urge you your petitions in the street? Come to the Capitol” (935). Then Caesar walks off with the rest of them just following behind.
Marcus Brutus was a very well thought out man. Brutus declares to himself that his role in the conspiracy is to save Rome. He says to the people that, "If then that friend demands why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."(Act 3, scene 2, lines 19-21). If Brutus was not in the plot of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the whole plot would've fallen apart. Since Brutus "...loved Rome more."(Act 3, scene 2 and line 21), he decided to be a part of the conspiracy. Cassius and the rest of the conspirators would probably not have continued on without Brutus because they would have no "insurance" afterwards. The people would think that there was no reason for Caesar's death and most likely beheaded all the conspirators. These are the reasons why Brutus was needed
At the start of the timelessly classic play, Julius Caesar was in the final stages of parlaying his military prowess and growing cult of personality into enthronement as the long absent autocrat of Rome. His brother-in-arms, Marcus Brutus, after fighting at Caesar’s side for so long, was forced to weigh his loyalty to Caesar against his loyalty to Rome, setting the stage for the troubling events to come. As Caesar’s divine right to rule and infallibility were trumpeted throughout Rome, others were not so convinced of his purity and worthiness. Cassius, a dissident Senator, opened Brutus’ eyes to the circumstances unfolding before them and to what could be lost should Caesar take the throne. Cassius voiced his opposition strongly, saying: