[Thunder and lightning. Enter Casca and Cicero.] Show CiceroGood even, Casca. Brought you Caesar home? Why are you breathless, and why stare you so? CascaAre not you moved, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen Th'ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam, To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds: But never till tonight, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. Either there is a civil strife in heaven, Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction. CiceroWhy, saw you any thing more wonderful? CascaA common slave — you know him well by sight — Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined, and yet his hand, Not sensible of fire, remained unscorched. Besides — I ha' not since put up my sword — Against the Capitol I met a lion, Who glared upon me, and went surly by, Without annoying me. And there were drawn Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women, Transformèd with their fear, who swore they saw Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets. And yesterday the bird of night did sit, Even at noonday, upon the market-place, Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies Do so conjointly meet, let not men say 'These are their reasons; they are natural'; For I believe they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon. CiceroIndeed, it is a strange-disposèd time. But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. Come Caesar to the Capitol tomorrow? CascaHe doth, for he did bid Antonius Send word to you he would be there tomorrow. CiceroGood night then, Casca; this disturbèd sky Casca[Exit Cicero.] [Enter Cassius.] CassiusCascaCassiusCascaYour ear is good. Cassius, what night is this! CassiusA very pleasing night to honest men. CascaWho ever knew the heavens menace so? CassiusThose that have known the earth so full of faults. For my part, I have walked about the streets, Submitting me unto the perilous night, And thus unbracèd, Casca, as you see, Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone; And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open The breast of heaven, I did present myself Even in the aim and very flash of it. CascaBut wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens? It is the part of men to fear and tremble, When the most mighty gods by tokens send Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. CassiusYou are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life That should be in a Roman you do want, Or else you use not. You look pale, and gaze, And put on fear, and cast yourself in wonder, To see the strange impatience of the heavens. But if you would consider the true cause Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts, Why birds and beasts from quality and kind, Why old men fools, and children calculate, Why all these things change from their ordinance, Their natures and performèd faculties, To monstrous quality — why, you shall find That heaven hath infused them with these spirits To make them instruments of fear and warning Unto some monstrous state. Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man Most like this dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion in the Capitol — A man no mightier than thyself or me In personal action, yet prodigious grown And fearful, as these strange eruptions are. Casca'Tis Caesar that you mean. Is it not, Cassius? CassiusLet it be who it is. For Romans now Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors, But — woe the while! — our fathers' minds are dead, And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits. Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish. CascaIndeed, they say the senators tomorrow Mean to establish Caesar as a king, And he shall wear his crown by sea and land, In every place save here in Italy. CassiusI know where I will wear this dagger then; Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius. Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong; Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat. Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself. If I know this, know all the world besides, That part of tyranny that I do bear I can shake off at pleasure. [Thunder still] CascaSo every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. CassiusAnd why should Caesar be a tyrant then? Poor man, I know he would not be a wolf, But that he sees the Romans are but sheep. He were no lion were not Romans hinds. Those that with haste will make a mighty fire Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome, What rubbish and what offal, when it serves For the base matter to illuminate So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief, Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this Before a willing bondman; then I know My answer must be made. But I am armed, And dangers are to me indifferent. CascaYou speak to Casca, and to such a man That is no fleering telltale. Hold my hand. Be factious for redress of all these griefs, And I will set this foot of mine as far CassiusNow know you, Casca, I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise Of honorable-dangerous consequence; And I do know, by this they stay for me In Pompey's Porch, For now, this fearful night, There is no stir or walking in the streets; And the complexion of the element In favor's like the work we have in hand — Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. CascaStand close awhile, for here comes one in haste. [Enter Cinna.] Cassius'Tis Cinna, I do know him by his gait; He is a friend. Cinna, where haste you so? CinnaTo find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber? CassiusNo, it is Casca, one incorporate To our attempts. Am I not stayed for, Cinna? CinnaI am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this! There's two or three of us have seen strange sights. CassiusAm I not stayed for? Tell me. CinnaBut win the noble Brutus to our party — CassiusBe you content. Good Cinna, take this paper, And look you lay it in the praetor's chair, Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this In at his window. Set this up with wax Upon old Brutus' statue. All this done, Repair to Pompey's porch where you shall find us. Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there? CinnaAll but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie, And so bestow these papers as you bade me. CassiusThat done, repair to Pompey's Theatre. [Exit Cinna.] Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day See Brutus at his house. Three parts of him Is ours already, and the man entire Upon the next encounter yields him ours. CascaO, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offense in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness. CassiusHim and his worth and our great need of him You have right well conceited. Let us go, For it is after midnight, and ere day We will awake him and be sure of him. [Exit.] What happened in Act 1 Scene 3 in Julius Caesar?Casca tells Cassius that a group of senators plan to make Caesar king the next day, and Cassius vows to commit suicide before becoming a subject of Caesar's. He tells Casca that he's already recruited some of the noblest Romans to undertake "an enterprise." Cinna, who is in on this “enterprise,” approaches.
What is the purpose of Scene 3 in Julius Caesar?This scene allows you to see another opinion of Caesar. Artemidorus is a Roman who loves Caesar and sees the conspirators as traitors. From this man's viewpoint, the reader gets a hint of the greatness that was once Caesar. This scene also highlights the public nature of the conspiracy.
Where does Act 1 Scene 3 take place in Julius Caesar?That evening, Cicero and Casca meet on a street in Rome. There has been a terrible storm, and Casca describes to Cicero the unnatural phenomena that have occurred: An owl hooted in the marketplace at noon, the sheeted dead rose out of their graves, and so on.
Who dies in Scene 3 of Julius Caesar?Cassius dies because Pindarus misreads the battle and Cassius despairs — a despair that began in Scene 1.
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