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Denouncement And Resolution In Julius Caesar
The climax of a play can be actually defined as both the turning point at which conflict begins to determine itself for better or worse and the final and most stimulating event. First, there is the meeting that conspirators had in order to approve their plan to murder Caesar, second, the most important one, his assassination and third, both the deaths of Brutus and Cassius. In Act IV we have the falling action when Brutus asks Antony to support his actions by speaking to the crowd but he, on the contrary, causes a riot. Finally, the denouncement or resolution is in Act V, when Antony allies with two Romans who pledge revenge for Caesar’s death and make all the conspirators to commit suicide with Brutus to receive a hero’s burial.

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