| He was kindnapped by pirates, and asked them to raise the ransom higher because it was "too low", and he thought he really was that important | Every bad thing that happens is the result of a character decision |
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| We're talking about the dangers of tyranny here | Casca didn't understand a word of it |
Or should we hope our government can survive him on its own? Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe.
19| More than sixty joined the conspiracy against [Caesar], led by Gaius Cassius and Marcus and Decimus Brutus | Art often tries to be dangerous, but it rarely succ What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind |
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| Sir Thomas North's translation of Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch provided Shakespeare with much material, not only his dramatization of Caesar's assassination in 44 B | T The party on the streets of Rome provides the context: Julius Caesar's power is becoming close to absolute |
His urge to simplify events ignores the fact that both people and actions are never wholly right or wrong; that one should adapt to the countless tonalities of life, that one should sometimes suspend judgment.
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