#but this was one of my favorite things to come out of that class dhsjfds

[phosphorus-noodles]

Last year in English my friend presented a speech on why Cassius from the hit Shakespearean play Julius Caesar was actually the good guy, and I thought tumblr might get a good kick outta it, so-

Why Cassius Was Actually Innocent (And Therefore Lame by Tumblr's Standards): A Persuasive Speech -

I believe that Cassius is the good guy in the tragedy of Julius Caesar.

From what I've seen personally, Cassius is a swell guy that only had the best for Rome (and his personal grudges) in mind when he approached Brutus with the idea of assassinating Caesar. A quote from [classmate] shows this in the way he says,

“Cassius is the good guy,”

thus further persuading my point.

I mean for all we know, Cassius was simply joking with Brutus, but when Brutus was like "ok let's do it" poor Cassius had to go along with it out of fear of what that maniac might do to him as well.

We all know Caesar was someone Cassius saw as a friend. Cassius was aware of Caesar's weaknesses and helped him overcome them. Caesar would have died during his stroke or when he almost drowned swimming across that river if not for Cassius. If Cassius wasn’t joking about Caesar's death then why didn't he kill him when he was at his most vulnerable? It is obvious that when Brutus took Cassius' joke too far, our poor boy Cassius, out of fear of what might happen to him if he didn’t comply, went along with it.

When they were stabbing Caesar, Cassius was

⚠️ PEER PRESSURED ⚠️

into stabbing him because if he didn’t he would have been next to die by the hands of those that killed Caesar. If he was to die here, then there would be none pizza with left beef that could challenge Brutus later on and make sure he was justly tried for his crimes.

Now you might be wondering how Brutus did all this when the story says Cassius was the one who sent letters encouraging him to do it and such. Well it was obviously just someone pretending to be Cassius--quite possibly the poet Cinna!

The poet wouldn't have been killed for only having the name Cinna, so there must have been some other reason. I believe that while posing as Cassius, Cinna sent these letters using his skill as a deadly poet to further persuade Brutus--who had been toying with the idea of killing Caesar already--and further persuaded him to do the deed. When Cassius informed Antony of these acts, he told the mob and they killed Cinna in a way fit for a traitor of Rome.

In closing, I would like to take another look at the fact that Cassius had many chances to kill Caesar in their years of friendship and not once did he lay a hand on him with the intent to harm him until the day he was forced to kill one of his best friends. The acts performed by the poet Cinna sowed more harm to Brutus in the name of Cassius, which tarnished his name in the book.

I ask you all to please not let these heinous acts go unpunished, so that we may avenge Cassius who was so overcome with what he did that he ordered his servant to kill him at the battle of Philippi--an act that shows how kind of a man he is.

Let us bring Brutus to the court of law so that we may have him stand trial and be justly tried for hurting our poor boy Cassius!!!