Monologue In Julius Caesar Act 3 Essay

For the monologue in Act 4 Scene 3 where Brutus speaks extensively on his current views his main message through this speech is his disapproval of Cassius’ actions and his reflection for how he feels. This message is developed using Repetition as well as Hyperbole. The monologue stages a situation where Brutus talks to Cassius of his actions of not being able to play a lump sum to Brutus for the wellbeing of their collective army. This scene shows Brutus’ sharp anger towards Cassius and he repeats the overall message of Cassius’ lack of initiative. In the lines, “For certain sums of gold, which you denied me:” and “Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?”(line 2044, line 2061) These lines emphasize the words “you denied me.” which Brutus continues to repeat to explain how Cassius who could have done a simple act of paying an amount of gold, which would be small to him to benefit the army they had.

In addition to this repeated idea of negligence, Brutus also adds on, “By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants.” (Line 2056-Line 2058)This hyperbole exaggerates the idea that Brutus would rather “coin his heart” or “drop his blood” rather than taking from the poor. While this does exaggerate what Brutus would do the main message he is conveying is the fact he would never do an action, such cassius did, that would be taking or hurting someone who already has very little when he himself could provide for what he needed. Brutus also adds. “Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?”(Line 2062) By saying this Brutus tries to put Cassius in his situation to see how he would feel if he acted as Cassius did when needy for help, to shed light on how Cassius’ actions were greedy and self-benefit