Act I, Scene II: "Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves
Brutus. If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius, he should not humor me. I will this
night, in several hands, in at his windows throw, As if they came from several citizens,
writings all tending to the great opinion that Rome hold of his name, wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambiion shall be glanced at" (lines
308-315).
Since Cassius knows his own words aren't enough
to convince Brutus to join the conspirators, he has decided to write fake letters and
forge other citizens' names to them to urge Brutus
further.
Act I, Scene II: "Why, man, he doth bestride the
narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about
to find outselves dishonorable graves. Men at some point are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are
underlings."
Cassius is making Brutus seem like they are
Caesar's slaves when the reality is they are two well respected and wealthy Sentors in
Rome.
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