Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
(after Caesar dies)
CINNA � Amanda � clever
(Cowboy sound, door swings shut)
Tyranny is all gone up and died. Liberty is free! Freedom liberated! Come on yall we�ll shout it in them here streets.
CASSIUS � Courtney - deputy
Go on get to that there podium stand thing and tell em� what we gone and done Sheriff Brutus. Tell em� the bandit�s gone an� died.
BRUTUS � Austin � sheriff
We�d better calm down an� breath and all first get a chance to work our heads a bit.
CASCA � Patrick � a drunk
Quit your yapping an� tell em� wots wot.
BRUTUS � Austin - sheriff
And Deputy, you too. Where's Trebonius?
CINNA � Amanda - clever
Here, quite confounded with this here rebellion.
TREBONIUS � Kelsey -
Now hold on all you, you�re like chickens too quick to peck the grain. Perchance a friend of Caesar should see us huh?
BRUTUS - Austin
Oh you be all talk in your boots, Have a drink friend, on me. I�m not a kindling to offend ya or something, aint no one in Rome kindling to offend ya.
CASSIUS � Courtney
Just along with you an� get goin� case you might get a tallywacker in your hide.
BRUTUS � Austin
Aint nobody who didn�t bear no pistol gonna bear no blame, save us the doers.
Re-enter TREBONIUS
CASSIUS - Courtney
Where is Antony?
TREBONIUS - Kelsey
He fell like a dead limb and fled to his ranch. All yall�s city folks is going crazed over or something, like the moon done near fall out of the sky.
BRUTUS - Austin
Ladies with your wire and cutters, ifn it be our time be kindly and snip short our her lives quick like. It be now nor ever.
CASSIUS Courtney
Sheriff, you needn�t have them fates snip off twenty good years of your life, taint no need ta fear this hear death.
BRUTUS Austin
I suppose it is true, death does smell a little deadly, be an all that we are friends and killers of a dead man. Come fellow Romans, lets take the bullets from his chest and show them to the people in the streets, lets paint our guns red with the wine of fair Caesar. Let us get on an� ride our horses out till dusk an� yell an� holler that Caesar be done and dead, and that peace be peaceful once again!
Character Analysis - CASSIUS
Courtney McAffee
Mr. Krucli
English E-core
26 April 2005
The scene we chose was in Act 3, Scene 1, right after Caesar is killed and stabbed by Brutus. This was a
worthy scene to act out because it broadcasted much emotion and character in especially Cassius, Casca,
and Brutus, which were three of the main plotters of Caesar�s death. We thought this would be a good scene
to portray because it shows the immediate attitude difference in the characters after Caesar has perished.
Casca, Cassius and the other conspirators seem to just be happy to be rid of Caesar so they can get their
claim to fame by getting rid of a bad ruler. While Brutus, on the other hand thinks that they killed him for his
ambition when he says, �ambition's debt is paid.�
I think that Cassius, the character I portrayed, was the thinker behind the whole situation. This character
shows Cassius as a man that is glad to have someone with higher power out of the way so that he himself
can gain power. Cassius is a greedy character, this is seen when he immediately wants the citizens to know
that he and others have gotten rid of a problem by killing Caesar so that he can get all of the glory. Cassius is
able to coax Brutus into his deceitful plan, which doesn�t end up benefiting the nation. I believe that Cassius
had Brutus in the conspiracy because he was an honorable man and the people would follow and most likely
agree with Brutus�s actions. He also tries to keep Brutus thinking that it was the right thing to do by agreeing
to put their hands in Caesars blood and saying that this would be a tradition to be carried on. Cassius is a
character driven by greed and this was seen in the scene we analyzed.