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The Ideal Conspirator In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. / He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous(1.2.193-196). This is Caesar's summation of Cassius. Either Caesar was guilty or Cassius was power hungry. For Brutus to align himself with a conspiracy is a necessary part of keeping Rome an ideal republic. Whether or not Cassius is the ideal conspirator is another story. Bloodshed is an inevitable part of life. When dictators try and change an ideal republic to a dictatorship, something drastic has to be done to keep the republic ideal. Brutus did what he had to do. Whether or Cassius is an ideal conspirator is all together questionable. Perhaps, he did have a "lean and hungry look." Perhaps, Caesar was expressing his concerns based on his guilt of becoming

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