Question

How do the murderers explain the death of Caesar in "Julius Caesar"?

Answer 1

Hint: This particular question is taken from the Act 3 Scene 1 of the play “Julius Cesar”. The main focus of the question is to explain how different people explain the death of Cesar.

Complete answer:
Just preceding his death, Caesar refuses Artemidorus’s pleas to speak with him, saying that he gives last priority to his nearest, most personal concerns. He then demonstrates a split between his public and private selves again, and endangers himself by believing that his public self is so strong that his private self cannot be caused any harm. This sense of indestructibility makes itself apparent when Caesar compares himself to the North Star, the star which never moves from its position and stays at the center of the sky, no matter what.

After the death of Julius Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus gives a speech to the plebeians about the reasons for Julius Caesar's death. He says that he had to kill Caesar because Caesar was too ambitious and he would have enslaved all of the Romans.

Brutus tells the conspirators of Caesar’s death, that they have acted as friends to Caesar. They had done this by shortening the time that Caesar would have spent fearing death.

Note:
- He urges the fellow conspirators to bend down and wash their hands in Caesar’s blood.
- They must then walk to the marketplace with their blood-covered swords and proclaim peace, freedom, and liberty.
- Cassius agrees and declares that the scene they now enact will be repeated in the coming future as a commemorative ritual.