1. Casca thinks of the strange omens as heaven was warning and showing anger about murdering Caesar. But Cassius interprets the strange phenomena as a warning that Caesar is threatening Rome and he has to be stopped fast. After interpreting the unnatural phenomena, Cassius manipulates Casca to join the conspiracy against Caesar.
2. This passage is significant because it is when Cassius interprets Casca’s views of many strange omens, and manipulate Casca to join the conspiracy against Caesar.
Casca joining the conspiracy is important for Cassius because the more people against Caesar, Rome will agree about Casar’s murder, and the conspirators will have and earn more power.
3. This passage is located in…
Act 1 Scene 3 (1.3): page 52 Line 57~78
4. Cassius:
You 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 fool and children calculate,
Why all these things change from their ordinance
Their natures, and preformèd 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.
Line 89~99
(If it was Caesar)
I 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.
