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1. Now that you have read the play in its entirety, decide for yourself whether or not Shakespeare believed
that the murder of Caesar was in the best interests of the Roman people? To answer this question, reflect
upon the facts of the play: who lives? (were their acts just?), who dies? (were their acts unjust?), and how do
the speeches associated with their deaths shed light on the way "God" (in the case of a fictitious story, the
playwright himself) would judge them and their actions?
2. Since Brutus himself is said to have been the noblest Roman of all" (V, 74), why do you think Shakes
kills him off before the play's conclusion? That is, is Shakespeare conveying any message mest
killing him off? (Remember: The reader must assume that nothing in such a play is included by