What is Cassius’s ultimate goal?
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One of the interesting points about the play Julius Caesar was Cassius’s insignificant reasons for his actions. Cassius is an extremely recognizable character, even though we have just finished the first act. He persuades Brutus to make up his mind and dislikes Caesar. While many important reasons for each character’s feelings and actions has been revealed, the character Cassius, who seems to be closely involved with both main characters, remains to be unrevealed.
From many aspects of Cassius, his usage of the situation for his own advantage is interesting. In Act 1 Scene 1, Marullus and Flavius show respect to their former leader, Pompey, which gives them a reason to hate Caesar. Brutus is conflicting between honor and his personal feelings: Rome and Caesar. According to Cassius’s words, he does not seem to neither have much affection to Pompey as the two men do, nor sacrificial to Rome as much as Brutus does. However, he is the one who gets the biggest merit by these two situations getting supports by both government officials and Brutus. Without even revealing what his ultimate goal is, Cassius easily gains the help he needs by using everything he can, including his great skills of persuading: Ethos, pathos, and logos. He gets to gather the people and gain power to get Caesar. As Cassius is working on persuading Brutus, much of his plans seem to have been already carried out and on the last stage, which makes him very interesting on how the readers don’t know anything about him yet. It is exciting to figure out how Shakespeare would further develop this interesting character and how he would affect the plot.
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