Julius Caesar Summary

Julius Caesar Summary Julius Caesar opens with conflict, the plebeians versus the tribunes. The plebeians are celebrating Caesar's victory over Pompey. The tribunes yell at the people for their fickleness in celebrating the defeat of a man who was once their leader. Caesar enters Rome with his supporters and a crowd of citizens. It is the feast of Lupercal, a day when two men run through the street and strike people they meet with goatskin. …showed first 75 words of 1461 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1461 total…friend dead and remarks, "O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet". Brutus gets a man to to hold a sword for him. He runs onto the sword and kills himself. Antony and Octavius arrive and see Brutus dead upon the ground. Antony says, "This was the noblest Roman of them all". Octavius ends the play with the lines, "So call the field to rest, and let's away, to part the glories of this happy day".