Caesar's nephew and adopted heir. He is young and inexperienced when he returns to Rome as an ally of Antony's after Caesar's death—he protests Antony's plan to betray Lepidus, and is initially outmaneuvered by Brutus at Philippi. After the events of Julius Caesar, however, Octavius eventually overcomes both Lepidus and Antony
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Octavius Caesar
Caesar's friend. He desires to make Caesar king, and virtually single-handedly brings about the undoing of the conspirators after Caesar's murder. Described as a passionate man who loves art and music, and teased even by Caesar for staying out late at parties, Antony is the opposite of the coldly logical Brutus.
Marcus Antonius
Quotes:
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“As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.”
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“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”
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“I have live along enough both in years and in accomplishments.”
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Julius Caesar
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A successful military leader who wants the Crown of Rome.
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He is imperious, easily flattered, and overly ambitious.
THE CAST
Famous quotes:
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“Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, yet now they fright me, There is one within, besides the things that we have heard and seen, recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. “
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Calpurnia
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Invests frat authority on omens and portents.
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She warns Caesar against going to the senate since she has had terrible nightmares and heard reports of many bad omens
Famous quotes:
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“Her anxiety proof on strength comes when she horribly kills herself because of Anthony’s growing power which is a threat to her husband.”
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Portia
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very humble and obedient wife of Brutus.
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daughter of Cato, a noble-born.
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not an ordinary woman, since Brutus chose her, in conjunction with who are family is, gives her the right to know that is going on in Brutus’s life outside the home.
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Thou shalt meet me at Philippi.
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The Ghost of Caesar
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Although the ghost is in the form of Caesar, it is obvious that he is some sort of manifestation of Brutus’s inner struggle.
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The ghost identifies himself as “thy evil spirit.”
A high-ranking and well-respected Roman, husband to Portia, and one of Caesar's murderers. An intelligent and self-possessed stoic, Brutus is respected by friend and enemy alike, and even by Caesar as Brutus kills him. Ironically, it is Brutus's admirable qualities—patriotism, reason, self-control—that cause him to participate in Caesar's murder, once these qualities are abused by Cassius. Brutus loves Caesar, but is so opposed to Rome having a king that his reason demands Caesar's death. Brutus's strict moral code also brings about his own undoing, since he refuses to kill Antony, as the more Machiavellian Cassius suggests they should.
Marcus Brutus
Instigator of the conspiracy against Caesar. Cassius had served beside Caesar in many wars, and even once saved his life. Unlike Brutus, who loves Caesar but is opposed to the idea of a monarchy, Cassius seems more motivated by jealousy, even hatred, of Caesar than by any political ideology, as he first professes. Indeed, Cassius begins to exhibit many of the bad qualities for which he initially argued Caesar must die, like ambition, dishonesty, and greed.
Cassius
One of the conspirators. Casca is a cynic—a personality type Shakespeare contrasts with the stoicism of Brutus and the Epicureanism of Cassius—and is therefore sarcastic and rude. He seems to want to kill Caesar not out of jealousy like Cassius, or out of concern for Rome like Brutus, but because he thinks Caesar is a phony. Casca is the first one to stab Caesar.
Casca
One of the conspirators.
Trebonius
One of the conspirators, convinced to join merely by the fact that Brutus was involved
Caius Ligarius
One of the conspirators. He is adept at flattery and persuasion, and goes to Caesar's house the morning of the murder to persuade Caesar to come to the Capitol by playing on his vanity and pride.
Decius Brutus
One of the conspirators, who had a brother banished by Caesar
Metellus Cimber
A poet attacked by the plebeians for having the same name as one of the conspirators.
Cinna
A tribune who, along with Murellus, is punished for removing wreaths from Caesar's statues.
Flavius
He joins Antony and Octavius to form the Second Triumvirate to rule the Roman Empire following the assassination of Caesar. He is weak, and Antony uses him essentially to run errands.
Quotes:
""M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old. "
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M. Aemilius Lepidus
A senator and a famous orator of Rome. He is calm and philosophical when he meets the excited Casca during the night of portentous tumult proceeding the day of the assassination. The triumvirs have him put to death.
Quotes:
"For there is but one essential justice which cementssociety, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked."
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Cicero
An elderly senator who arrives with the conspirators to escort Caesar to the Capitol. He is stunned as he witnesses the assassination. Brutus sends him out to tell the citizens that no one else will be harmed.
Quotes:
"Where there is unity there is always victory."
"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."
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Publius
The senator who wishes Cassius well in his "enterprise" as Caesar enters the Senate House. This comment intensifies the dramatic tension in the moments immediately prior to the assassination by causing Cassius and Brutus to briefly fear that they have been betrayed.
Quotes:
"I wish your enterprise today may thrive."
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Popilius Lena
Tribunes who wish to protect the plebeians from Caesar's tyranny; they break up a crowd of commoners waiting to witness Caesar's triumph and are "put to silence" during the feast of Lupercal for removing ornaments from Caesar's statues.
Quotes:
"And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers in his way
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! "
Marullus
He gives Caesar a letter as the emperor enters the Capitol; in the letter, he lists the conspirators by name and indicates that they intend to kill him, but Caesar does not read it.
Quotes:
'Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus
loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and it is 1125 bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,
look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.
The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,
'ARTEMIDORUS.'
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Artemidorus
He warns Caesar during the celebration of the feast of Lupercal to "beware the ides of March." He again warns Caesar as he enters the Senate House.
Quotes:
"That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar. To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,
I shall beseech him to befriend himself."
"Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand, To see him pass on to the Capitol."
A soothsayer
The conspirator who urges Cassius to bring "noble" Brutus into the conspiracy; he assists by placing some of Cassius' forged letters where Brutus will discover them.
Quotes:
"All but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone
To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,
And so bestow these papers as you bade me."
Cinna
The officer who impersonates Brutus at the second battle of Philippi and is captured by Antony's soldiers. Antony admires his loyalty to Brutus and thus he protects him, hoping that Lucilius will choose to serve him as loyally as he did Brutus.
Quotes:
"With courtesy and with respect enough;
But not with such familiar instances,
Nor with such free and friendly conference,
As he hath used of old."
Lucilius
An officer in the army commanded by Cassius and Brutus, he guards the tent at Sardis during the argument between the two generals, and is a scout at Philippi for Cassius. After Cassius commits suicide when he mistakenly believes Titinius to have been taken prisoner by the enemy, Titinius kills himself in emulation of Cassius.
Quotes:
"Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities."
"The sun of Rome is set. Our day is gone;
Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done."
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Titinius
A soldier serving under Brutus and Cassius, Messala gives information concerning the advance of the triumvirs, and he reports Portia's death to Brutus at Sardis. At Philippi, he hears Cassius confess that he believes in omens. Later, he discovers Cassius' body.
Quotes:
"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not? O error, soon conceived, Thou never comest unto a happy birth, 2580. But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee!"
Messala
The son of Marcus Cato, the brother of Portia, the brother-in-law of Brutus, and a soldier in the army commanded by Brutus and Cassius. He dies during the second battle at Philippi while trying to inspire the army by loudly proclaiming that he is the son of Marcus Cato and that he is still fighting.
Quotes:
"What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?
I will proclaim my name about the field"
"He is slain."
Young Cato
A friend of Brutus and a soldier under his command at Philippi. He refuses to hold a sword for Brutus to impale himself on.
Quotes:
"What says my lord?"
"Not so, my lord."
"That's not an office for a friend, my lord."
Volumnius
Servants of Brutus, they spend the night in his tent at Sardis. Neither of them observes the ghost of Caesar that appears to Brutus.
Quotes:
"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
"What, if as said, man is a bubble."
"Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities."
"No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing."
"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."
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Varro & Claudius
Servants of Brutus, they refuse their master's request at Philippi to kill him.
Quotes:
"Shall I do such a deed?"
"To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates."
"Fly, my lord, fly."
"Statilius show'd the torch-light, but, my lord, He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain."
"What ill request did Brutus make to thee?"
"Now is that noble vessel full of grief,
That it runs over even at his eyes."
Clitus & Dardanius
The loyal servant who holds Brutus' sword so that he may commit suicide. Later, he becomes a servant to Octavius.
Quotes:
"Free from the bondage you are in, Messala:
The conquerors can but make a fire of him."
"I held the sword, and he did run on it."
Strato
Brutus' young servant; Brutus treats him with understanding, gentleness, and tolerance.
Quotes:
"He is a sick man that would speak with you."
"Sooth, madam, I hear nothing."
"The taper burneth in your closet, sir. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am sure, It did not lie there when I went to bed."
Lucius
At Philippi, he erroneously tells his master, Cassius, that the scout Titinius has been captured by the enemy when the scout has actually been greeted by the victorious forces of Brutus. Thinking that all is lost, Cassius decides to die; he has Pindarus kill him with the same sword that he used to help slay Caesar.
Quotes:
"Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;
Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord..."
"So, I am free; yet would not so have been,
Durst I have done my will. O Cassius..."
Pindarus
