Julius Caesar · Character

Casca

A blunt, sour-tongued senator who calls the crowd's applause stinking breath, reports the day's omens, and strikes the first blow against Caesar.

supporting

Also known as gentle Casca, honest Casca, damned Casca

First appearance: act i

As a supporting figure in Julius Caesar, Casca is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Casca provides a blunt, sardonic account of the crown-offering and Caesar's collapse, revealing the crowd's volatile nature.

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Casca is the conspiracy's plainspoken witness, the man Brutus and Cassius pluck by the sleeve for an unvarnished account of Antony offering Caesar the crown three times and Caesar refusing it three times, each refusal gentler than the last. He describes the rabblement hooting and throwing up sweaty night-caps with such contempt that his own honesty becomes a kind of insult. He is also the hand that strikes first in the Capitol, which makes his earlier mockery of Caesar's fainting fit curdle into something far grimmer.

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Scene II
Casca provides a blunt, sardonic account of the crown-offering and Caesar's collapse, revealing the crowd's volatile nature.
Scene III
Describes terrifying omens to Cicero and later agrees to join Cassius's conspiracy against Caesar.
Scene I: Brutus's Orchard
One of the conspirators present at the meeting, Casca argues for including Cicero and later debates the direction of the sunrise.
Scene II
Arrives with the group to accompany Caesar.
Scene III
Named in the warning as one of the conspirators to beware of.
Scene I
First to stab Caesar; urges Brutus to speak to the crowd.

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