Julius+Caesar+Scene+4.3

__Group 1 - Act IV, Scene III__ Cassius- Christine Beverin Brutus- Emily Kramer Lucilius/Varro- Amelia Stalknecht Poet/Claudius- Dara Cooper Lucius- Carly Truglio Messala- Ann Tulley Ghost - Megan Ruiz

**Important Events** • Cassius and Brutus start to fight about the money for the soldiers • The poet comes in and tries to warn Cassius and Brutus but Brutus asks the poet to go away. • The two generals discuss the letters and all the letters said that Octavius and Mark Antony are in Phillippi. • Portia dies because she commits suicide. She thought it was shameful of Julius Caesar’s death. • 70-100 senators die including Cicero. • Cassius and Brutus decide that they will leave to Phillippi to defeat Mark Antony and Octavius. • A ghost comes, and only Brutus sees the ghost. The ghost represents Brutus’s guilt.

**Important Lines**
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows and in miseries.On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures" (Julius Caesar 4.3.)

• Brutus is telling Cassius that they must take immediate action against Mark Antony.

"Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala. With meditating that she must die once, I have the patience to endure it now" ( Julius Caesar 4.3.)

• Brutus' reaction to Portia's death was as if he didn't care. In this quote, he tells Messala that he knew she would die someday but now he does not have to expect it anymore.

“ Even so great men great losses should endure” (Julius Caesar 4.3). o After Brutus discovers his wife comitted suicide, Messala speaks this quote. He means that when men lose close family members, the men are still strong even if they suffer a loss.

**Character Development** -Brutus gains guilt. The ghost in the story represents the guilt and is his conscious. He feels bad for the death of his friend Caesar. -Cassius and Brutus friendship is tested when they fight and they start to get rocky.

**Motifs** The ghost is a new warning for the old motif that Brutus regrets killing his friend, and that the battle between Brutus and Cassius versus Mark Antony and Octavius will not turn out well.

**New Material for Old Topics** 1) Brutus loses his wife, and other friends from the Senate. 2) The wife killed herself because she could not deal with herself having a husband that is a murder. 3) War occurs over the death of the loved King Caesar.

**Summary Sentence** Brutus and Cassius the two generals are in the tent before the battle starts. While they are planning there next move they argue but quickly forgive each other. During this scene, Brutus sees the ghost of Caesar that represents to the audience that Brutus is feeling guilty for killing Caesar. The ghost tells him they will meet again in the battle at Phillippi.