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Julius Ceasar's Assassination In Act 1 Of Julius Caesar

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Julius Caesar upsets many people which leads to his assassination. Act 1 foreshadows his assassination with the people’s dissent and disapproval. In the first scene Marullus scolds the cobbler when he takes a day off to celebrate the triumph of Caesar because he waited “the livelong day with patient expectation/ To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. /And when you saw his chariot but appear, /Have you not made an universal shout” (Shakespeare I.i.46-49). Marullus tells him that the people wait the whole day to see Pompey, and when he arrives, no cheers for him. He reminds the people that they cheered on Pompey two days, but now they gather to cheer on Caesar’s triumph over Pompey. In scene two Cassius claims to Brutus, that he is just
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