Titinius obeys and rides off. Pindarus calls down his reports: Titinius, riding hard, is soon surrounded by the unknown men; he dismounts the horse and the unknown men cheer.
Pindarus descends the hilltop, whereupon Cassius gives Pindarus his sword, covers his own eyes, and asks Pindarus to kill him. Pindarus complies. Unexpectedly, Titinius now enters with Messala, observing that the battle rages on without sign of ending.
Messala departs to bring the tragic news to Brutus. Miserable, Titinius stabs himself and dies. Brutus now enters with Messala and his men. The exchange between the four leaders profits from close reading, as it compares the respective powers of words and swords to harm.
The politicians engage in a skillful rhetorical skirmish, but, ultimately, their words have no effective power. In believing himself immortal, Caesar opened himself up to his murder by the conspirators, and his death seemed to disprove his faith in his own permanence.
Yet now the power of Caesar appears to linger on, as events unfold in exact compliance with what Caesar would have wished. Just as the misinformation that causes Cassius to commit suicide cheapens his death, so too do the manner and consequence of his death render it less noble.
He cannot, however, bring himself to perform the necessary act; though he implies that his choice to die is brave, he does not possess the requisite bravery.
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He was emotionless, clinical, and detached; not a friend to Brutus, but a suitor of his power and reputation. At the end, Cassius is prepared to show his great love for his friend and, although this love is noble in itself, it diminishes him to some degree.
Note that Cassius' melancholy is the "mother" to his death. In contrast to Brutus' virility in the face of his great friend's death, Cassius is less manly. Brutus, who at the beginning of the play was passive and pursued by Cassius, is now a man of action. In addition, any doubts that the audience may have had about Brutus' nobility are swept aside by the sympathy gained for him through the powerful friendship he has developed with Cassius.
He is short-sighted. And now they're shouting with joy. It looks like the worst has happened. Cassius calls for Pindarus to stop watching. He laments that he's such a coward to have sent his best friend Titinius to his death. Pindarus returns to Cassius' side, and Cassius speaks to him. Cassius reminds Pindarus how he took him prisoner at Parthia and spared his life on the condition that he do whatever Cassius asked him to. Cassius then tells Pindarus how to make himself a free man: he should kill him with the very blade he used to kill Caesar.
Pindarus stabs Cassius, who dies declaring that Caesar is avenged by the same sword that killed him. Pindarus, now hovering around Cassius' body, claims that this wasn't the way he wanted to gain his freedom, and that if he had his own will and hadn't been Cassius' servant , he wouldn't have done it.
He declares that he'll run far away so no Roman will ever see or enslave him again. Messala then enters the scene with Titinius who—surprise! Brutus has overtaken Octavius' forces, while Antony's forces have beaten Cassius' men.
The men are stoked to tell Cassius that all isn't lost, but then they see his dead body, which is in no condition to accept good news. Messala is more Action Jackson than super-sleuth; he goes off unhappily to inform Brutus of Cassius' death.
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