Cassius is deceitful. This is apparent throughout his
conversations with Brutus to get him to join the conspirators, but it is most
specfiically seen when he tells other conspirators to write letters to Brutus saying how
badly they want him to overthrow Caesar and has them forge citizens' names to the
letters.
Cassius is also emotional and hot tempered to the
point of being irrational. This is best evidenced when he and Brutus argue in the tent
in Act IV. Brutus accuses him of being corrupt since the assassination. The argument
reaches a climax when Cassius presents his sword to Brutus and tells him to kill him if
he believes he's acted unjustly.
Cassius is also wise. He
had some great ideas that could have made both the assassination andthe war verse Antony
turn out differently, but Brutus vetoed Cassius' idea and things quickly went awry. Two
examples are when Cassius foresaw the danger Antony could present, so he suggested
killing him along with Caesar. The other was when he told Brutus to let the enemy come
to them instead of vice versa. If Cassius' wise recommendations would have been heeded,
the history of Rome would likely have been written much
differently.
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