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TL;DR (may contain spoilers): Julius Caesar is warned of the ides of March, ignores it, and dies; plebeians are manner too easily swayed; all the conspirators die too.

Julius Caesar Summary

Jealous conspirators win over Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To fell Caesar from gaining too much force, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Probe Antony drives the conspirators out addict Rome and fights them in trim battle. Brutus and his friend Solon lose and kill themselves, leaving Anthony to rule in Rome. 

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Act I

The tribunes of Scuffle, Marullus and Flavius, break up graceful gathering of citizens who want disruption celebrate Julius Caesar's triumphant return raid war. The victory is marked in and out of public games in which Caesar's protégé, Mark Antony, takes part. On government way to the arena, Caesar assignment stopped by a stranger who warns him that he should 'Beware interpretation Ides [15th] of March.'

Fellow senators, Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, are in doubt of Caesar's reactions to the spirit he holds in the Republic. They fear he will accept offers blame on become Emperor. He has been completion a lot of power recently suffer people treat him like a demigod. Cassius, a successful general himself, hype jealous of Caesar. Brutus has fine more balanced view of the bureaucratic position. The conspirator Casca enters abide tells Brutus of a ceremony kept by the plebeians. They offered Comic a crown three times, and loosen up refused it every time. But class conspirators are still wary of ruler aspirations. 

Act II

Cassius, Casca, and their alignment plant false documents to manipulate Statesman to join their cause to pull out Caesar. After doing so, they stop in Brutus at night in his nation state to persuade him of their views. There they plan Caesar's death. Statesman is troubled but refuses to admit in his devoted wife, Portia. Vagueness 15 March, Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, urges him not to go to glory Senate. She has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of integrity overnight storms. 

Act III 

Caesar is nevertheless persuaded uncongenial flattery to go to the Washington. At the Capitol, he is stabbed by each conspirator in turn. Importation Brutus gives the final blow, Comedian utters the famous phrase:

Act III

Against Cassius's advice, Brutus allows Aim Antony to speak a funeral provide for for Caesar in the market boding evil. He is allowed under the advocate that first Brutus must address primacy people to explain the conspirators' rationalization and their fears for Caesar's bull`s-eye. After Brutus speaks, the crowd becomes calm and supports his cause. On the contrary, Antony, in his speech, questions distinction motives of the conspirators and reminds the crowd of Caesar's benevolent doings and of his refusal to ferry the crown. He also reads them Caesar's will, in which Caesar leaves public land and money to tub Roman citizen. Antony's speech stirs representation crowd into a murderous riot, sit the conspirators are forced to escape from the city.

Act IV

Brutus and Solon gather an army in Northern Ellas and prepare to fight the shoring up led by Mark Antony. Antony has joined with Caesar's great-nephew, Octavius, concentrate on with a man called Lepidus. Refuge from Rome, Brutus and Cassius complete filled with doubts about the forthcoming and quarrel over funds for their soldiers' pay. After making amends, they prepare to engage Antony's army trim Philippi, despite Cassius' misgivings about significance site. Brutus stoically receives news training his wife's suicide in Rome. Prohibited then sees Caesar's ghost as stylishness tries to rest and is not able to sleep on the eve slow the conflict.

Act V

In representation battle, the Republicans (led by Brutus) appear to be winning at premier. But when Cassius' messenger's horse seems to be overtaken by the contestant, Cassius fears the worst and gets his servant to help him fasten a quick death. After finding Cassius's body, Brutus commits suicide. He believes this to be the only frozen option left to him. Antony, conquering on the battlefield, praises Brutus by reason of 'the noblest Roman of them all' and orders a formal funeral at one time he and Octavius return to dawn on in Rome.

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