What Does This Quote Mean By William Shakespeare In His Book Julius Caesar?
This is a quote from Cassius to Caesar in the second scene of Act 2. Cassius has a political motivation (Or at least not a very honerable motivation) to murder Caesar and is attempting to get Brutus on his side. In Brutus’s family history his ancestors led the revolt against the Etruscan kings and formed the republic. Now Caesar’s popularity is arousing the danger of him becoming a tyrant. Brutus is very noble and willing to up hold his heritage’s fame. In these words Cassius is appealing to Brutus’s urge to action and his nobility and pride. The stars he is refering to are the stars that supposedly rule govern each man’s life. He is saying to Brutus that if Brutus sits back and lets this happen that he will not be a master of his fate (and the fate of Rome), and that the blame will be on him.
