ACT 5 NOTES:

• Stychomythia: Witty argument where words from the previous speaker is built upon.

• Ravens, Crows, and kites: All birds who symbolize death

• People constantly look on signs constantly and don't take into counter the reality.  

• Cassius kills himself because he thinks they took TITINIUS. Pindarus, his slave is telling Cassius that Titinius has been chased and dismounted from his horse.

• The way he kills himself, Pindarus stabs him. Cassius doesn't watch because he covers his eyes. 

• In the Battle, Brutus defeats Octavius, and then Cassius looses to Antony. He looses because Brutus starts the attacks to Early. Cassius isn't ready. 

• Brutus thinks that the ghost of Caesar is making them kill. 

• Lucilius calls himself Brutus because he wants to protect Brutus. 

• Brutus runs into the sword.

• They are guilty of Caesar's death. One act of violence spirals out of control. 

• Harmartia: tragic flaw or error in judgment. 

• Brutus cannot judge the intensions of men. Because he is so good and such a good person he thinks everyone else is good too. 

• Octavius has the last line in the play meaning that he rules after. 

• Brutus is the protagonist. He is in greatest conflict with Antony. Antony is the antagonist. 

• Cassius tricks Brutus and helps create conflict. 

• Brutus is too idealistic where he can't see truth. 

• He is a great man, and a great man in a tragedy has to take a fall. 

The main themes are: 

1. Men may intentionally misinterpret the actions of others and completely ignore reality.

2. The lonely world of a man of honor surrounded by selfish man of lesser nature.