Question

CASSIUS: [To PINDARUS upon learning of BRUTUS’ “death”] Guide thou the sword. [PINDARUS stabs him] Caesar, thou art revenged, Even with the sword that killed thee. [Dies] BRUTUS: [Runs on his sword] Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will. [Dies] Were Cassius’ and Brutus’ deaths the work of fate or free will? Explain the ways that their deaths address the theme of fate vs. free will.

Answer 1

Cassius asks Pindarus to kill him with his own sword; Brutus runs onto his own sword, which is held by Strato.

Answer 2

The answer to this is that the deaths of Cassius and Brutus are work of fate, the planning of Caesar's death shows that they got what was coming to them. This is because it is all of his destiny not with his own will.