Cigarette Day Custody Summary

Analysis: “Cigarette Daydreams” by Cage the Elephant and “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen describe the inner thoughts and feelings of Brutus. In the beginning of Julius Caesar, Brutus did not want to kill Caesar. Caesar was beloved by Brutus and the rest of Rome. However, once Cassius started to corrupt the mind of Brutus, Brutus was swaying to his side. “Looking for the answer” signifies how Brutus was not sure whether or not killing Julius Caesar was the morally right answer. Brutus did not have murderous thoughts against Caesar until Cassius started to whisper in his ear. “If we could find a reason” signifies how Brutus defended killing Julius Caesar. In his speech to Rome that he made directly after killing Caesar, Brutus defended himself by
saying that he loved Caesar, but he loved Rome even more. “A reason to change” signifies how the second Brutus made the decision to kill Caesar, he was forever changed. Even Portia, Brutus’s wife, noticed how Brutus was changing. He was not the same person as he was before. “Standing in the pouring rain” connects directly to Caesar’s death by Brutus’s hand. Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, had a nightmare of Caesar’s statue pouring out blood. After Brutus killed Julius Caesar, he didn’t regret the crime. However, when Mark Antony shook the hands of Caesar’s killers, he marked them all for death. “Mama, just killed a man” describes how Brutus gave the final strike in killing Caesar. “Pulled my trigger” connects to how Brutus stabbed Caesar. “Now he’s dead. Mama, life had just begun. But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.” Brutus may have firmly believed that Caesar was abysmal for Rome, but it made Antony avenge his dear friend’s death. Brutus went and threw away his life because of what he did.