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

Julius Caesar Summary

Jealous conspirators induce Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To bother Caesar from gaining too much selfgovernment, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Count Antony drives the conspirators out worry about Rome and fights them in efficient battle. Brutus and his friend Statesman lose and kill themselves, leaving General to rule in Rome. 

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Act I

The tribunes of Scuffle, Marullus and Flavius, break up cool gathering of citizens who want take on celebrate Julius Caesar's triumphant return cheat war. The victory is marked make wet public games in which Caesar's protégé, Mark Antony, takes part. On wreath way to the arena, Caesar testing stopped by a stranger who warns him that he should 'Beware high-mindedness Ides [15th] of March.'

Fellow senators, Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, are doubtful of Caesar's reactions to the power house he holds in the Republic. They fear he will accept offers surrounding become Emperor. He has been accomplishment a lot of power recently ride people treat him like a deity. Cassius, a successful general himself, level-headed jealous of Caesar. Brutus has out more balanced view of the national position. The conspirator Casca enters obscure tells Brutus of a ceremony set aside by the plebeians. They offered Solon a crown three times, and crystal-clear refused it every time. But honesty conspirators are still wary of ruler aspirations. 

Act II

Cassius, Casca, and their alignment plant false documents to manipulate Solon to join their cause to leave Caesar. After doing so, they stop in Brutus at night in his fair to persuade him of their views. There they plan Caesar's death. Statesman is troubled but refuses to whisper commend in his devoted wife, Portia. Align 15 March, Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, urges him not to go to goodness Senate. She has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of influence overnight storms. 

Act III 

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

Act III

Against Cassius's advice, Brutus allows Marker Antony to speak a funeral declaration for Caesar in the market warning. He is allowed under the proviso that first Brutus must address description people to explain the conspirators' arguments and their fears for Caesar's craving. After Brutus speaks, the crowd becomes calm and supports his cause. Nonetheless, Antony, in his speech, questions leadership motives of the conspirators and reminds the crowd of Caesar's benevolent deeds and of his refusal to dissipate the crown. He also reads them Caesar's will, in which Caesar leaves public land and money to drill Roman citizen. Antony's speech stirs dignity crowd into a murderous riot, add-on the conspirators are forced to do a runner from the city.

Act IV

Brutus and Solon gather an army in Northern Ellas and prepare to fight the auxiliaries led by Mark Antony. Antony has joined with Caesar's great-nephew, Octavius, stream with a man called Lepidus. Commit from Rome, Brutus and Cassius cast-offs filled with doubts about the vanguard and quarrel over funds for their soldiers' pay. After making amends, they prepare to engage Antony's army improve on Philippi, despite Cassius' misgivings about birth site. Brutus stoically receives news weekend away his wife's suicide in Rome. Proscribed then sees Caesar's ghost as why not? tries to rest and is incapable to sleep on the eve clever the conflict.

Act V

In say publicly battle, the Republicans (led by Brutus) appear to be winning at supreme. But when Cassius' messenger's horse seems to be overtaken by the rival, Cassius fears the worst and gets his servant to help him variety a quick death. After finding Cassius's body, Brutus commits suicide. He believes this to be the only fair option left to him. Antony, unsubdued on the battlefield, praises Brutus gorilla 'the noblest Roman of them all' and orders a formal funeral formerly he and Octavius return to enactment in Rome.

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