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{{quoted|Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.|William Shakespeare|''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', Act III, Scene I.}}

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Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend whose ancestors were famed for driving the tyrannical Tarquin kings from Rome. Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Gaius Cassius—that Caesar intends to turn republican Rome into a monarchy under his own rule. Traditional readings of the play maintain that Cassius and the other conspirators are motivated largely by envy and ambition whereas Brutus is motived by the demands of honour and patriotism; in fact one of the central strengths of the play is that it resists categorising its characters as either simple heroes or villains.

{{quoted|Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.|William Shakespeare|''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', Act III, Scene I.}}

The early scenes deal mainly with Brutus's arguments with Cassius and his struggle with his own conscience. The growing tide of public support soon turns Brutus against Caesar. A soothsayer warns Caesar to "beware the Ides of March", which he ignores, culminating to his assassination at the Capitol by the conspirators on that very day.

After Caesar's death, however, another character appears on the foreground, in the form of Caesar's devotee, Mark Antony, who, by a rousing speech over the corpse—the much-quoted Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears...—deftly turns public opinion against the assassins by speaking to the more personal side of his position, rather than the public and rational tactic Brutus uses in his speeches. Antony rouses the mob to drive them from Rome.

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Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend whose ancestors were famed for driving the tyrannical Tarquin kings from Rome. Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Gaius Cassius—that Caesar intends to turn republican Rome into a monarchy under his own rule. Traditional readings of the play maintain that Cassius and the other conspirators are motivated largely by envy and ambition whereas Brutus is motived by the demands of honour and patriotism; in fact one of the central strengths of the play is that it resists categorising its characters as either simple heroes or villains.

"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war."
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I.

The early scenes deal mainly with Brutus's arguments with Cassius and his struggle with his own conscience. The growing tide of public support soon turns Brutus against Caesar. A soothsayer warns Caesar to "beware the Ides of March", which he ignores, culminating to his assassination at the Capitol by the conspirators on that very day.

After Caesar's death, however, another character appears on the foreground, in the form of Caesar's devotee, Mark Antony, who, by a rousing speech over the corpse—the much-quoted Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears...—deftly turns public opinion against the assassins by speaking to the more personal side of his position, rather than the public and rational tactic Brutus uses in his speeches. Antony rouses the mob to drive them from Rome.

[edit] Needs to float right, not left

With the increasing use of float-right information boxes and images, this template should also be made to float right instead of left. As I write this, there are only three articles that are using this template, and each one of them produces ugly effects on the surrounding text:

• Attack on Taranto and Taranto — overlap with text near images
• The New World Order (Mage: the Ascension) — shoves the article text into a tiny space along the right

I found these problems using browser windows of varying widths in both Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Opera 7.51. Interestingly, Internet Explorer (6.0) was the only browser that didn't suffer from problems, apparently because it places these float-left texts before the standard article text, whereas the other browsers place them after the float-right images. I suspect that by making this template a float-right, all browsers will render it correctly. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:10, 25 April 2006 (UTC)