Antony shakes hands with the conspirators to make them believe that he does not have ill intentions toward them. He ultimately desires to take a brutal revenge against the group, but he is aware that confronting them directly after Caesar’s murder would likely prove fatal for him.

climax · The climax of the play comes when Antony, by juxtaposing Caesar’s accomplishments, his generous will, and his corpse’s brutal wounds with the repeated statement that “Brutus is an honorable man,” persuades the people of Rome that Brutus and his co-conspirators aren’t honorable at all.

According to the scene of Julius Caesar in Act 3, Scene 1, the best summary would be that Antony shakes the hand of all the conspirators and says he knows that his love for Caesar puts him in an unstable position. Then he imagines that it would break Caesar’s heart because he is making peace with his assassins.

Metellus Cimber presents a petition to Caesar: he wishes to have his banished brother forgiven. Caesar denies him, bragging of his constancy. The other conspirators try to insist, but Caesar denies them all. Casca stabs him first, and the other conspirators follow, last of all Brutus.

A poet named Cinna is confronted by a group of conspirators asking questions. He attempts to answer them wittily, but they become angry and decide to kill him because he has the same name as one of the conspirators, although he protests that he is not the same man.

What promise does Anthony give Brutus about his funeral speech? He won’t say anything bad about the conspirators. He’ll tell the Romans that he speaks with the conspirators’ permission. He’ll speak after Brutus.

Caesar had migraine headaches. Or hypoglycemia. He had a tapeworm in his brain. Most commonly, he has been diagnosed with morbus comitialis, the Latin term for epilepsy.

His last words are, “Caesar, now be still, / I killed not thee with half so good a will.” The significance of Brutus’s last words is that they reveal his difficult feelings about taking Caesar’s life and depict him as a genuine, honorable character.

Another Shakespearean invention was Caesar’s last words, “Et tu, Brute?,” meaning “You too, Brutus?” in Latin.

The phrase “Et tu, Brute?” (“You too, Brutus?”) is associated with the Roman general and ruler Julius Caesar. He purportedly said this as he was being assassinated, uttering it upon seeing that Marcus Junius Brutus, a man whom he had trusted, was among his assassins.