Cassius Essay

The Most despicable character in Julius caesar Cassius in the play of Julius caesar to me is the most despicable character in the play because he manipulates a lot of people and basically lies and cheats his way to get the things he wants and he does even more things to show that he’s the most despicable character. One of the reasons that Cassius is a despicable characters is that he manipulated brutus and it took time to manipulate him because in the play brutus is a stoic and a stoic is a person

Cassius as Tragic Hero in Julius Caesar   William Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar around 1599. The role of the `tragic hero' is extremely important as many of the characters in Julius Caesar exemplify the `tragic hero' qualities. Marcus Brutus, and Julius Caesar, display all the qualities of the `tragic hero': they are great men, with character flaws, and as a result of a mistake in decision-making many people suffer. In Cassius one can see these same qualities. Cassius can be seen as

Both Cassius and Brutus play major roles in the play Julius Caesar. Cassius and Brutus both plan Caesar’s death. Although they are working towards a common goal, Cassius and Brutus have very different motivations for doing this. On the one hand, Cassius sees it as a way to gain more power for himself while destroying the king and all his power. On the other hand, Brutus believes that in killing Caesar he is preserving peace for the Romans’ future years. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses different

doesn’t follow, but this is Cassius` clever manipulative technique; he has got Brutus into conversation and will want him to reveal that he wants to assassinate Caesar. He is keeping him unbalanced to manipulate him. Brutus’s` response is merely that of he cannot see his face and Cassius pounces on this opportunity, “Tis just”, Cassius is now deliberately inflating Brutus pride and now he is enticing him in and he is pumping up his pride deliberately to burst him. Cassius continues and is being very

Cassius' Words in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar        In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the importance of Cassius and Brutus' dialogues in Act 1, Scene 2, lines 135-78 to the play is that it enables Cassius to deceive Brutus to join the conspirators. Cassius' words in this passage show that he is a very cunning individual who persuades Brutus to join the conspirators to rid Rome of his so-called " tyranny."   Cassius' words expose his hypocritical nature during his conversation

In William Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar one character named Cassius says “ the fault dear brutus, is not in our’ stars but in ourselves that we are underlings” (Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III, L. 140-141), I think that this quote mean is that when you think you're destined something great but you never achieve it. Cassius was telling Brutus that Caesar wasn't meant to be this god everyone think he is. Cassius said that Caesar is weak and inferior man than everyone think he is. Brutus

similarity between the two novels is within the characters Cassius and Helena obtaining motivation for their respective betrayals through jealousy. As Cassius notices the praise that the common citizens of Rome heap upon Caesar when he merely walks down a road, he becomes angry and jealous, and wonders “why “[Caesar’s] name [is] sounded more than” his own, and when it is, why his is not respected as highly as Caesar’s (Julius Caesar 1.2.142-143). Cassius, alike to Brutus, believes that Caesar’s rule will

revolves mostly around two main characters: Cassius and Brutus. Although they are two different characters differing in their point of view towards Caesar, their reasons for killing Caesar and their own personalities, they share some really interesting common points as well. Brutus and Cassius have different places in Caesar’s mind. We can understand that Brutus is seen as a Nobel, honest and trustworthy friend to Caesar, because of the fact that Cassius said: “Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves

In Shakespeare's “Julius Ceasar”, Brutus and Cassius are very important characters, sharing many similarities and differences. Brutus is a more dominant and noble character, honest and naive. Cassius is a more manipulative, perceptive character. They both take part in the more dramatic scenes and are essential to the play itself. They differ in the way they perceive Antony as a threat to the assassination plot, their dominance in personality, and their moral obligation. To begin

In Dante's inferno, Dante first begins describing himself in a dark forest and in the distance on top of a mountain sees paradise where his love, Beatrice, resides. He then begins making his way to the mountain when he sees 3 creatures, a lion, a leopard and a she-wolf. He then meets the spirit of Virgil, who was a roman poet. Virgil guides Dante through the 9 rings of hell in order for Dante to reach Beatrice. They begin at Limbo, Where those who didn’t identify as being Christians and those who