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In Julius Caesar... What were the conspirators reasons for killing Caesar?
I understand that Brutus' reason was that he loved Rome but what about the consiprators.?
IS there more to this please help..!!!

2006-12-25 16:47:39 · 6 answers · asked by Matt S. 2 in Education & Reference Homework Help

~~~In shakespeares play~~~

2006-12-26 03:17:57 · update #1

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Julius Caesar returns to Rome, victorious from battle. The crowd in Rome is ecstatic, and they attempt to crown him King three times. A group of generals in his army become concerned about Caesar's power and his penchant for extreme and tyrannical actions. That night, huge storms surround Rome, and strange, supernatural things happen all over the city. Cassius, Cinna, and Casca meet during the night and discuss their desire to overthrow Caesar from the throne. They believe they should kill him. The three involve Decius Brutus, Trebonius, Ligarus, and Metellus Cimber in the growing conspiracy. They all, except for Casca, go to Marcus Brutus' house and convince him to join. The group hatches a plan to kill Caesar at the Senate the next day, each man drawing his sword on Caesar at the same time. Cassius pushes the group to kill Mark Antony, Caesar's constant companion and ally, as well. Marcus Brutus argues against this action, saying that the bloodshed should be kept to a minimum, and vengeful actions should be avoided by the group.

Later in the same scene, after an impassioned speech in which Brutus' wife Portia reveals that she has gashed her thigh to prove that her strength is equal to that of her husband, Brutus is compelled by his love and respect for her to tell her what is troubling him. He promises to tell her what is going on after he meets with his co-conspirators.

The next morning, Calphurnia, Caesar's wife, initially convinces Caesar to stay home because she had nightmares about what his fate would be today. Caesar remains proud, though, and one of the conspirators, Decius Brutus, comes to his house and reinterprets Calphurnia's dream and convinces Caesar to go to the Capitol and Senate after all. Before Caesar makes his away to the Senate, a sophist named Artemidorus reads aloud a warning that he will attempt to pass off to Caesar before he enters the Senate, but he is never able to present the scroll to Caesar. The document names all of the conspirators and warns Caesar to stay away from them today.

When he arrives at the Senate, Caesar sees a soothsayer who had warned him the day before to beware of the ides of March, and says to him, "the ides of March are come," but the soothsayer responds ominously, "Ay, Caesar, but not gone." As Caesar goes to the front of the Senate, the conspirators follow him and begin to argue for a pardon for Metellus Cimber's banished brother. This way, they are able to get close to Caesar, who arrogantly refuses to consider the request. At this, Casca begins by stabbing Caesar in the back of the neck, followed by the rest of the group, and, finally, by Marcus Brutus, who stabs him in the heart.

Meanwhile, Trebonius has taken Antony aside so he cannot protect Caesar.

The crowd in the Senate panics. Antony re-enters as the conspirators are standing over Caesar's body, and expresses his grief to Caesar before approaching the conspirators to pledge his allegiance to them, the new leaders of Rome. Antony makes a simple request: that he be allowed to bear Caesar's body to the center of Rome and make a eulogy for Caesar before the crowd. When Brutus agrees to this concession, Cassius takes him aside and expresses his worry that Antony may still do something to hurt the conspirators. Brutus brushes these concerns aside, saying that he will speak to the crowd first, saying that he killed Caesar out of concern for the citizens of Rome.

2006-12-25 17:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by The Answer Man 5 · 0 0

Well, the conspirators wanted to kill Caesar because they didn't want to become slaves under him. They believed that he wanted to become king and rule all of Rome. Brutus initially did not want to kill caesar but the conspirators really needed him on their side to make their act of murder look good. So they "persuaded" Brutus by means of fake letters and such. So basically they killed him because he was becoming too powerful.

2006-12-26 05:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by Angry Finn 3 · 0 0

nicely, in Rome, long term in the past, people had 3 names to designate them: a million- the praenomen (or first call, the single going till now the nomen). as a effect, the praenomen in Gaius. yet it replaced into written Caius! and stated Gaius. 2- the nomen, which as a effect is Julius, by using fact Caesar replaced into from the Julii relatives. So it replaced right into a relatives call. 3- the cognomen, is in basic terms approximately like a surname, a nickname. as a effect Caesar. So that's Caius Julius Caesar (stated Gaius Julius Caesar) who replaced into the comparable and easily Julius Caesar, the single that conquered the Gauls and wrote the Commentarii de bello Gallico, or comments with reference to the Gallic conflict. Historians as a result can choose for between Julius Caesar, Caesar, and Gaius Julius Caesar, or perhaps Caius Julius Caesar. ineffective to assert, the guy replaced the entire international, like Alexander the tremendous, like Cyrus the tremendous, and in comparison to all of the others, whether they choose for to faux marking their time in any way.

2016-10-18 23:58:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

In julius Caesar The conspirators wanted to kill Caesar bcoz they were jealuos of caesar. They thought that they were better than caesar and so they should become the king. They thought Caesar was ambitios and would become a tyrant and so they will have to work under him.
Because of thge above reasons they killed Caesar.

2006-12-25 23:44:34 · answer #4 · answered by Praraj Ranka 1 · 0 0

Historically, it is rumored that Brutus was actually Caesar's son. Brutus first thought that his flourishing career was because of his merit, but when he found out that he was Caesar's son from his mother, Brutus became really disgruntled. He realized that he probably did not deserve the career success if it was soly merit-based. Therefore, he started to hate Caesar to the point that he would murder him.

2006-12-25 16:51:26 · answer #5 · answered by DeadmanWalks 3 · 0 0

Rome was a republic, but Caesar set himself up as a dictator. He eliminated all of his possible opponents, and many of the Senators felt he wanted to establish a heriditary monarchy.

This is not far-fetched at all. Remember, he took the queen of Egypt (Cleopatra) as his wife, and they had a son together.

2006-12-25 16:56:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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