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Brutus's Idiosyncrasies In Julius Caesar

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One of Cassius’s idiosyncrasies is devious. During Cassius’s soliloquy in Act one Scene two, Cassius starts talking about how he is going to convince Brutus to help him. He says “ I will this night, in several hands, in at his windows throw, as if they came from several citizens, writing, all tending to the great opinion that Rome holds of his name.”. What he is saying is that he will forge writings to make them look like other people’s writings and then give them to Brutus to make him notice that Rome thinks he is better than Caesar. He expects this will then lead to Brutus helping Cassius. Another characteristic of Cassius is that he is an extrovert or a show-off. In Act one Scene three, Cassius is talking to Casca and he says “...and thus

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