1. Caesar says this.
2. Caesar says this to Brutus.
3. Brutus has just stabbed Caesar along with the other conspirators.
4. Caesar is shocked that Brutus would betray their friendship and join the conspirators to kill him.
"...that, as I slew my best lover for the/good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself/when it shall please my country to need my death. (III.ii.47-49)
1. Brutus says this.
2. Brutus says this to the crowd of Plebeians.
3. Caesar has just been slain, and Brutus is explaining why they did it. In this specific quote, he states that he will kill himself if his countrymen did not think it fit for him to kill Caesar.
4. The Plebeians were unsure of the murder of Caesar at first, but they would follow Brutus to anywhere, to the ends of the earth even, and believe anything he said, because he was the friend and lover of Caesar.
"Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal:/To every Roman citizen he gives,/To every several man, seventy-five drachmas... Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,/His private arbors, and new-planted orchards,/On this side of the Tiber. He hath left them you,/And to your heirs forever--- common pleasures/To walk abroad and recreate yourselves./Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?" (III.ii.254-256 and 261-266)
1. Mark Antony is speaking.
2. Mark Antony is speaking to the Plebeians.
3. Antony explains that Caesar left an abundance of money and land to every person in Rome. He questions if there is any nobler than he.
4. The Plebeians believe Mark Antony and realize that Caesar was a kind and noble ruler, and a generous one at that. They decide to kill the traitors and burn their houses down.
"It is no matter. His name's Cinna./Pluck but his name out of his heart, and turn him/going." (III.iii.34-36)
1. The Fourth Plebeian is speaking.
2. The Fourth Plebeian is speaking to the First, Second, and Third Plebeians.
3. A poet named Cinna and just told the Plebeians his name, and they want to kill him because he has the same name as one of the conspirators, even though he isn't actually one of them.
4. Anger at Caesar's murder has made the citizens of Rome wild with rage. They don't care who they kill. They just want to avenge Caesar's death, even if it means killing those who look like or have the same name as one of the conspirators.
"Even at the base of Pompey's statue/(Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell./O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!/Then I and you and all of us fell down,/Whilst bloody treason flourished over us./O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel/The dint of pity. These are gracious drops./Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold/Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,/Here is himself, marred as you see with traitors." (III.ii.200-209)
1. Mark Antony is speaking.
2. Mark Antony is speaking to the Plebeians.
3. He is saying how that it was treason to kill their ruler, Caesar, and that he should be avenged. He shows them the stab wounds, how he is "marred as you see with traitors".
4. The Plebeians are enraged by this. They resolve to kill the conspirators for their act of treason.
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