Act four of the famous Shakespearian play Julius Caesar introduces a lot of new
elements to the play and complicates the existing relationships between the characters in it. This
complication makes the interactions between the characters even more interesting. Analyzing
this essential chapter to the story can further our understanding of not only the characters, but
their fates as well.
Scene two of act four starts off with Brutus talking to two new characters, Lucilius and
Pindarus. Lucilius and Pindarus tell Brutus that Cassius is coming and that Cassius is not too
happy either (Shakespeare). Cassius arrives with his army and confronts Brutus, and Brutus leads
Cassius into his tent so that they can talk it out, thus ending scene …show more content…
It gets to the point where Cassius offers his own dagger to
Brutus and tells him to kill him because he has no friends. After this, Brutus begins to calm down
a bit. This part of the scene is very interesting because Cassius’s actions can be looked at one of
two ways. Either he genuinely felt so bad that he offered his dagger, or he knew that Brutus
would never stab him and he offered his dagger to make the situation seem bigger than it was to
make Brutus feel bad for him. We have definitely seen Cassius be manipulative before, so this is
in no way a stretch to speculate that he was just manipulating Brutus to pity him.
Soon enough, a poet tries to enter the tent in which the argument is taking place, but the
guards tell him to go away. When Brutus and Cassius finally come out of the tent, the poet spews
his rhyme and Cassius and Brutus tell him to go away. Cassius and Brutus sit down and drink
some wine, and Cassius and Brutus start to have a conversation. It is here that we find out Portia
is dead and Brutus has been drinking to try to forget her. This grief is multiplied when we …show more content…
As previously stated, we can also assume that Brutus will feel the guilt of his wife’s death
sometime during the battle. The death of his wife plus the arrival of the ghost of his former best
friend whom he killed, plus the possible manipulation and betrayal of Cassius, all on top of a
giant battle between him and his former friend Antony probably puts a lot of emotional strain on
Brutus. With all of this emotional strain, we can probably expect Brutus to do something against
his better judgement during the battle at Philippi.
But what about Octavius and Antony? Well, even though we don’t hear from them
directly in scenes two and three, we hear about them. We hear that they have killed one hundred
Roman senators. From this we can infer that they have quite an army, and that Brutus and
Cassius are going to have a very hard time trying to defeat them. We can also infer that because
Brutus will have such emotional strain, Antony and Octavius will have a major upper hand when
facing against Brutus’s fraction of the conspirators’ army.
By taking different chunks from act four, we inferred many things that might happen in
act five. Although inferring ion this way does not always lead to the correct outcome, doing
elements to the play and complicates the existing relationships between the characters in it. This
complication makes the interactions between the characters even more interesting. Analyzing
this essential chapter to the story can further our understanding of not only the characters, but
their fates as well.
Scene two of act four starts off with Brutus talking to two new characters, Lucilius and
Pindarus. Lucilius and Pindarus tell Brutus that Cassius is coming and that Cassius is not too
happy either (Shakespeare). Cassius arrives with his army and confronts Brutus, and Brutus leads
Cassius into his tent so that they can talk it out, thus ending scene …show more content…
It gets to the point where Cassius offers his own dagger to
Brutus and tells him to kill him because he has no friends. After this, Brutus begins to calm down
a bit. This part of the scene is very interesting because Cassius’s actions can be looked at one of
two ways. Either he genuinely felt so bad that he offered his dagger, or he knew that Brutus
would never stab him and he offered his dagger to make the situation seem bigger than it was to
make Brutus feel bad for him. We have definitely seen Cassius be manipulative before, so this is
in no way a stretch to speculate that he was just manipulating Brutus to pity him.
Soon enough, a poet tries to enter the tent in which the argument is taking place, but the
guards tell him to go away. When Brutus and Cassius finally come out of the tent, the poet spews
his rhyme and Cassius and Brutus tell him to go away. Cassius and Brutus sit down and drink
some wine, and Cassius and Brutus start to have a conversation. It is here that we find out Portia
is dead and Brutus has been drinking to try to forget her. This grief is multiplied when we …show more content…
As previously stated, we can also assume that Brutus will feel the guilt of his wife’s death
sometime during the battle. The death of his wife plus the arrival of the ghost of his former best
friend whom he killed, plus the possible manipulation and betrayal of Cassius, all on top of a
giant battle between him and his former friend Antony probably puts a lot of emotional strain on
Brutus. With all of this emotional strain, we can probably expect Brutus to do something against
his better judgement during the battle at Philippi.
But what about Octavius and Antony? Well, even though we don’t hear from them
directly in scenes two and three, we hear about them. We hear that they have killed one hundred
Roman senators. From this we can infer that they have quite an army, and that Brutus and
Cassius are going to have a very hard time trying to defeat them. We can also infer that because
Brutus will have such emotional strain, Antony and Octavius will have a major upper hand when
facing against Brutus’s fraction of the conspirators’ army.
By taking different chunks from act four, we inferred many things that might happen in
act five. Although inferring ion this way does not always lead to the correct outcome, doing