Cassius is suggesting that Caesar does not deserve to be a king. Cassius realizes that Brutus has been acting a bit odd. He takes advantage of Brutus’s odd state to influence him. Cassius continuously suggests that Caesar is weak. He boosts Brutus’s ego by complimenting him and telling him that he has “hidden worthiness into your eye” (781). Cassius believes that both Brutus and himself were born as free and Caesar. In fact, he believes that they are both stronger than Caesar. Cassius does not think that Caesar should be the king of Rome, and he believes that Caesar is too weak. He shows his opinions through a few of his anecdotes. For example, he tells Brutus about the time when he went to a river with Caesar, and Caesar became too weak to swim. Caesar cried “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!”” (783), and he also referred to Caesar as “a sick girl” (783) because he had a fever once when he was in Spain. It amazes Cassius that “A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone” (783). Cassius shares these two incidents with Brutus to influence him to think against Caesar.
Additionally, Cassius tells Brutus that people are the “masters of their fates” (784). In other words, he means that people are in charge of deciding their own fates. He wants Brutus to step up against Caesar. Cassius talks about how Brutus’s name and Caesar’s name both seem equally heavy and important, but he wonders why Caesar’s name has more power than Brutus’s name. He seems to hate walking “under his huge legs” (783) and bowing down to him.
Cassius wants Brutus to step up to Caesar because he thinks Caesar is too weak to rule. Brutus seems as if he is slightly influenced by Cassius's speech. (312 words)
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