Though this play is called Julius Caesar, Caesar himself does not appear as the main character. He is more of a minor character who only appears in the first half of the play. However, we do learn a lot about him in the first two acts. We are led to believe that Caesar is hungry for power but there is no indication that this is true. In fact there is more evidence that this is false. An example is the fact that Caesar refused the crown three times. Caesar was a very stubborn man who would not sway in his ideas. If Caesar were not as stubborn, he might have heeded Calphurnia’s warnings not to go to the Senate and he might have read Artemidorus’ note. He even refers to himself as the Northern Star because he is so set in his beliefs. This, however, may not have been such a bad thing because he did put more emphasis on the good of the people rather than on himself. This leads us to see that he is actually an unselfish and just man.
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Some of these mistakes were letting Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral and even deciding not to kill Antony in the first place. In this same scene, he shows his lust for power once more by making a list of all the people he has to kill. However, Cassius is not entirely bad; he was very smart. Acting out of envy, he tricks Brutus into believing the same thing and also to join the conspiracy. Brutus was one of the people who conspired to kill Caesar but he was the only one to do it for a just cause. These points all prove that Cassius is a rather sly and cunning man who is willing to do almost anything to get what he wants.
Cassius is a long-time friend of Julius Caesar but he does not like the fact that Caesar has become almost god-like to the plebeians. In the end, Cassius proves to be a man who only wanted good for himself and he would do this through unjust means. Brutus always strove for what was good but because he was naïve he often made mistakes. Mark Antony described Brutus as “the noblest of Romans”. At the funeral, Antony shows he is a very good speaker because he makes the Brutus-loving crowd turn against the conspirators. Antony is made out to be a man who has good morals and beliefs but throughout the novel you see that this may not be true. Antony is a very tricky man; he pretends to be friendly with the conspirators but actually only does it so the conspirators trust him enough to speak at the funeral. This led to his being easily controlled and manipulated, as done by Cassius to first get him into the plot.
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