Common citizens gather in the city to celebrate Caesar's victory against Pompey. During this meeting, a soothsayer shouts to Caesar to “beware the Ides of March.” Caesar rejects this warning. He is offered the crown, which he denies three times in a row. While all this is happening, there is a group of conspirators against Caesar, claiming that he is a tyrant and should be killed before coming to power. Casca and Cassius try to convince Brutus to take their side, because he is noble and will accept their plan if they tell him it is for the good of the plebeians. Cassius arrives at Brutus' house with the group of conspirators. They are here to bring Brutus to their side to kill Caesar. Since they know that Brutus is noble and wants to do what is right, the conspirators convince Brutus that they should kill Caesar the next day and anyone else who is with Caesar. Brutus agrees to the plan, but insists that only Caesar be killed because it would benefit Rome. After these men leave, Portia comes to talk to her husband. He insists on knowing what's bothering him. He doesn't want to tell her but she says she deserves to know because she's his wife and they shouldn't have secrets. But he says he should tell her sooner or later, but not now. Furthermore, Caesar plans to go out that day, but his wife, Calphurnia, and a servant convince him to stay home because he had dreamed that he would be killed. But Decius is a conspirator who comes to Caesar's house and gives a different interpretation of Calfurnia's dreams, and tricks Caesar into leaving. Caesar meets the fortune teller and says that the Ides of March have come and he is still here. But the fortune teller tells Cesare that the day is not over yet. Caesar goes ahead and meets... halfway through the paper... and because he's awake. When Brutus says that he is simply ill, Portia argues that since she is his wife, and they are supposed to be partners, he should be able to tell her his worries. In my monologue, Portia wants Brutus to realize that she is stronger than other women, that she is his devoted wife. By voluntarily stabbing himself in the leg, she wants him to realize that she is strong and can be trusted with her secrets. After my monologue, Brutus responds by saying that he wishes he were good enough to have such an honorable wife, and promises that he will. I'll explain to her soon what's going on, but for now she had to come in because someone knocked on the door. Lucius brought Ligarius, a sick man, to his door. Ligarius said that since Brutus is so noble, he would do whatever Brutus wants him to do. So the three left to go to the Capitol to kill Caesar.