Cassius is criticising peoples view of Julius Caesar and how they blindly follow and speak of how he is a god. He is telling Brutus that Caesar is nothing but a man and is as fallible and as weak as any other person. He starts off by saying “I was born as free as Caesar; so were you: we both have fed as well, and we can both endure the winters cold as well as he” (A1:S2 97-99). Cassius is telling Brutus that he was born as normal and lived as normal as any other person as well as gone through no worse problem than others either. Yet Cassius takes this further by saying that of not just being the same he and Brutus are better than Caesar. Cassius does this by an anecdote about how he had saved Caesar’s life from drowning in the Tiber river, and yet he is now a god and Cassius a “wretched creature” (117) and of how Caesar had once got sick and “How he did shake; ‘tis true, this god did shake” (120-121).
The next part of his argument he starts to speak less of Caesar part in this oppression and more of how the people have let themselves be swayed into getting ruled by a murderer. He does this by comparing Brutus’ name with that of Caesar and saying how Brutus has just as much right to rule as Caesar. And as a final note Brutus then speaks “till then my noble friend, chew upon this: Brutus would rather be a villager than to repute himself a son of Rome”. That speaks of how Brutus has disconnected himself with the rest of Rome all because of a doctoral leader who calls himself better but is hypocritically no more a human than a god. So Cassius had get brutes to his view.
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