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Julius Caesar Summary.
Title: Julius Caesar Summary.
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 1226 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Julius Caesar Summary.
Act I.
Shakespeare's famous Roman play opens to the scene of two Tribunes, Marullus and Flavius scolding Roman citizens for blindly worshipping Caesar. Their conversation reveals deep-seated fears that Caesar is growing too powerful, too arrogant and must be stopped. Hoping to reduce the blind hero worship of Caesar, the two men remove ceremonial decorations off Caesar's "images" (statues) despite the obvious dangers of doing so...
A little later, we see Caesar leading a procession …showed first 75 words of 1226 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1226 total…his few remaining followers. One by one, Brutus asks first Clitius, Dardanius and Volumnius to kill him but each refuses. Finally Brutus gets his wish by falling on his sword, killing himself.
Octavius, Mark Antony, Messala and Lucilius now arrive. Strato explains how Brutus died. Mark Antony pays tribute to Brutus' noble spirit by famously saying, "This was the noblest Roman of them all...." Octavius tells his soldiers to stand down, the battle now over...
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