Julius Ceaser Acting Assessment..

The quote I have chosen is one said by Cassius in act one scene two. Cassius at the time was trying to per sway Brutus to join in on his conspiracy group. The reason I see this quote significant within the play is because it shows Cassius's character and also it is one way Cassius was able to brain wash the most important conspirator in the conspiracy group. The quote shows how Deceiving and how manipulating Cassius is. "Caesar'? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?" “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves." These lines are said by Cassius to Brutus. He says these very manipulatively to Brutus, making sure whatever he says to Brutus makes him angry or frustrated, even jealous. It also shows you how tactical Cassius is, and that he is someone to watch out for in the play. The following passage also is somewhat foreshadowing what is going to happen in the play, that Ceaser is going to have people against him. However the passage doesn’t tell you exactly who will be against him, but it does tell you Cassius is.


Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?
When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.