Cassius: A Foil To Brutus

Therefore, Brutus did it for the good of Rome, he thought of everyone unlike Cassius. Considering that he tricked Brutus into joining the conspirators. Cassius did everything for himself, he did nothing for the good of others. Cassius is the least honorable in behalf of how he wanted to kill Caesar. Cassius has been a individual who wanted to kill Caesar because he didn't like him; then, he didn’t want him to rule Rome.

At the beginning of the play, Cassius covertly convinces Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar; but even though Brutus agrees to the plot he still is wary about it. “I have not known when his affections swayed / More than his reason. But ‘tis a common proof / That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder” (Shakespeare. II. 1.

He used weak people to help succeed in killing Caesar. This may make Cassius the smartest one of them all. Brutus decided to join the conspiracy in the end, against his own best friend! The fact that Cassius was able to get a man to turn on his own best friend proves how smart and cunning Cassius really was. Brutus’s ignorance let himself fall into the traps Cassius set out for him, “Good Cinna, take this paper,/ And look you lay it in the praetor’s chair / Where Brutus may but find it.

Brutus was very noble, honorable and brave which contrasted with Cassius wanting to be powerful and his jealously. Cassius just wanted to be powerful and be in charge, but Brutus just wanted a better Rome. Cassius Talks Brutus into doing things that he would probably regret in the end. Cassius shows Brutus that he really didn’t care about the people he just wanted the power.

Cassius and Brutus are very different people. They have a few things in common, they both killed Caesar. They killed him for two different reasons. Cassius was jealous and Brutus did it for a good reason. Cassius killed Caesar because he was jealous that Caesar was full of power.

Brutus is one of the main plotters in Caesars assassination. Brutus truly beloved that Rome is better off without Caesar. But, Brutus wasn’t alone in the assassination of caesar there was also Cassius, he was very ambitious and greedy. He was smarter than Brutus as well. Brutes’ main belief is the goddess of people.

At this point in the play, Brutus was making all of the decisions for the conspirators. He would not listen to Cassius when he should have. For example, if they would have killed Antony he would not have had to flee Rome, another thing he should have listened to is that Brutus should not have let Antony make a speech in act 3 scene 2 lines 73-105. Antony was able to use pathos during his speech to turn the people against the conspirators, while Brutus tried using logos. If Brutus would have used a different approach he would not have had the people turn against

While Brutus maintains noble intentions, Cassius goes into this scheme with every intention of leaving everyone else behind to claim the power for himself, as he has been compelled by their society to do. Cassius tells Brutus that Caesar “doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus” while convincing him that Caesar is accumulating too much power for one man, despite harboring the belief that all of that power should be his (JC I.ii.142-143). To further prove his point to Brutus, Cassius gives Brutus fake letters telling him that the common people would rather have Brutus in charge than Caesar. While this is just Cassius himself manipulating Brutus, Cassius is motivated by the pressures of their society and Brutus, motivated by the belief that his society wants him to, joins the conspirators in their plot to kill Caesar and take power for themselves. Caught in a vicious cycle of societal pressure, these men continue to fight for power even after they achieve their original goal as evidenced by the civil war that breaks out following the assassination of Julius

Before the murder of Caesar, Cassius fought as a quaestor under Marcus Licinius Crassus at Carrhae in fifty three B.C. He supported Pompey against Caesar, but was pardoned after the battle of Pharsalus. Cassius was made peregrine praetor and Caesar promised to make him governor of Syria. Cassius was the ring leader in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar. Many people believe Cassius is the evil master mind behind the death of Julius Caesar, however every one blames Brutus, but it was Cassius.

I think that Cassius is the enemy because he wants Brutus to kill Julius. Cassius also tries to manipulate Brutus to killing Julius. Cassius states, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (L.iii.141-142). I chose this quote because this is something Cassius would say to manipulate Brutus.

Unfortunately, Cassius uses Brutus’ altruistic characteristic and devout loyalty against him by sending fake letters with concerns regarding the crowning of Caesar for Brutus to read and be persuaded to join the conspirators. Cassius’ manipulation of Brutus serves as an example of how Shakespeare

Characters are working hard to persuade and suggest other world views, like above. Caesar is almost manipulating men to see themselves as weak, strange and cowardly if they feel fear. In act 2, scene 2, Cassius wants Brutus to change his point of view and join the other side. Cassius keeps revisiting the topics of gaining power for himself. Brutus not so much.

Cassius is often referred to as a villain in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. A villain is a play or stories antagonist. Traits of a villain include manipulative and untrustworthy. Cassius was a known companion of Caesar’s that was an active part in the assassination (Gaius). First of all, Cassius manipulates Brutus and the rest of the conspirators into helping him assassinate Caesar.

All Cassius is doing is manipulating Brutus so that he can get Caesar out of the way for his own agenda. Cassius states, “Come Casca, you and I will yesterday/ see Brutus at his house: three parts of him/ Is ours already, and the man entire/ upon the next encounter yields him ours” (I.ii.) . Brutus’s “friends” give him good enough reasons to kill Caesar, or so he thinks. Brutus is blind to the fact that the

He is losing all of his honorable traits, including the ones he earned in his political position as senator, by going against his fellow senator, Caesar. This affects the work as a whole because of the themes of the play, ambition, and conflict, have a strong impact on what Shakespeare is ultimately trying to express between the main characters. Ambition has an effect on the plot because Caesar is a very ambitious man. This alone and the numerous letters Brutus has been receiving leads him to think that he is no good for Rome, Caesar’s ambition worries Brutus. Cassius is a man of great ambition also.