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5.4 and 5.5 Dramatic Reading of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

October 21, 2006

5.4� is another short scene. Brutus enters quickly (or does he simply stay on from 5.3?). Then it becomes a fight scene. Cato bravely fights but succumbs. Lucillius pretends to be Brutus, but he is taken prisoner. Is there some irony in the fact that Lucillius tries to protect Brutus but he cannot?

5.5 is, of course, the final scene in the play. Does the fact that Brutus is the last to die tell us how much this is "his play"? What are your final (emotional, literary, logical) reactions to the play?

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