{"id":91,"date":"2012-08-27T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2012-08-27T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:12:08","slug":"julius-caesar-cassius-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/julius-caesar-cassius-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Caesar: Cassius, V,iii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caesar, thou art avenged, even with the sword that kill’d thee.<\/em><\/p>\n

–<\/em>Cassius, Act V, scene iii, Julius Caesar<\/em><\/p>\n

In Act V, scene iii, of Julius Caesar,<\/em> Cassius commits suicide.\u00a0 Having been misled that his dear friend Titinius is slain, Cassius decides he must join him.<\/p>\n

For almost two years, I wondered why Cassius had decided to die at that moment.\u00a0\u00a0He may have loved Titinius, but Cassius was a soldier;\u00a0he’d surely\u00a0lost dear friends before.\u00a0 I read Julius Caesar<\/em> in grade ten and loved it.\u00a0 By December of grade twelve, though, I was still asking myself why Cassius\u00a0gave up when he did.<\/p>\n

However, I had a resource\u00a0in December, 1987,\u00a0that I’d lacked\u00a0when I’d first read\u00a0Julius Caesar<\/em>:\u00a0 a waiter with whom I worked, named Tim.\u00a0 I assisted him some nights at a pretty fancy place.\u00a0 One night, Julius Caesar<\/em> just happened to come up somehow, so I asked Tim why Cassius\u00a0had thrown in the towel so early in the battle.<\/p>\n

“Simple:\u00a0 guilt,” Tim replied.\u00a0 “Cassius knew he shouldn’t have led the conspiracy to kill Caesar.\u00a0 He regretted it.\u00a0 The guilt was too much\u00a0for him.”<\/p>\n

At once, the\u00a0question was resolved.\u00a0 It’s remained so\u00a0since December, 1987.\u00a0 Of all the answers I’ve received my whole life, that one from Tim remains possibly the most satisfying.<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by.\u00a0 Please come again.<\/p>\n

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane<\/a>, Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caesar, thou art avenged, even with the sword that kill’d thee. –Cassius, Act V, scene iii, Julius Caesar In Act V, scene iii, of Julius Caesar, Cassius commits suicide.\u00a0 Having been misled that his dear friend Titinius is slain, Cassius …<\/p>\n

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