 Let's examine the character of Octavia Caesar. Bear in mind that Octavia Caesar was technically Julius Caesar's great grand-nephew. However, given that Julius Caesar did not have legitimate heirs to the Roman throne, he actually adopted Octavia Caesar as his own son, making him the heir once he died. Therefore, Octavia Caesar does play a key role particularly towards the end of the play because both he and Mark Antony organise and put together an army in order to fight Brutus and Cassius's army and of course they establish what is called the Triumvirate. It's a three-man led empire in addition to Lepidus in order to govern the massive empire of Rome following Caesar's death. Now, Octavia Caesar of course is presented as incredibly loyal to his adoptive father Julius Caesar and he does seek to avenge his death and inflict pain and punishment on both Brutus and Cassius. So if you're writing about his character or indeed writing about themes relevant to his character for this play, either for your exams or for coursework, I would suggest these are the key quotations to bear in mind when it comes to the character of Octavia Caesar. So we're going to go over them right now. Now the first quotation when it comes to the character of Octavia Caesar to bear in mind is when he states and of course this is when he and Mark Antony join forces and they put together an army and they are arguing over strategy okay. So they do argue however Octavia Caesar states to Mark Antony come come the cause if arguing makes us sweat the proof of it will turn to redder drops of course here he is basically trying to find some form of resolution with Mark Antony so that the argument does not become something completely outlandish and leads them to basically lose the war if they don't get on and what he's basically saying is look Mark Antony I know that we're kind of different people and we have different opinions but please let's not let this argument blow up because that's ultimately going to make us maybe fight, fall out, even draw blood from each other but ultimately we'll lose this war against Brutus and Cassius. Now the word level analysis you want to do for this quotation is especially the repetition of come and also the iteration of turn two and finally the metaphor redder drops so here we can see that whilst Octavius is presented as a very powerful leader he's somebody that's very fearless actually he's also very loyal to those who are on his camp and of course he also has a very massive amount of respect for Mark Antony he's much older than him he respects him because he also understands that Julius Caesar had a very close bond and relationship with him he was Julius Caesar's confidant so he also respects him due to his seniority too. Now the second quotation for Octavius Caesar's character is when he states and this is when he enact five he is speaking to both Brutus and Cassius and of course he's disgusted by them and he's saying that you know their act is unforgivable and they are fighting and he states I draw a sword against conspirators ellipsis till Caesar's three and thirty wounds be well avenged so of course here he's selling Brutus I'm drawing my sword and I'm going to fight you and actually I'm going to kill you as long until I feel like my uncles and my adoptive father's death has been avenged and of course he's talking about his three and thirty which means 33 wounds stabbed wounds that Julius Caesar suffered to his body so basically saying you know it's only if I kill you Brutus and of course defeat all of your army that's when I'll feel lack of avenged Julius Caesar's memory. Now the word love analysis you want to do here is firstly the declarative sentence I draw a sword against conspirators bear in mind the declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact feeling all mood the other keyword love analysis you want to do here is a literation of W in wounds and well of course this shows how emphatic Octavius is in defending the memory of Julius Caesar. The other quotation to bear in mind when it comes to Octavius Caesar's character and what he says and of course this is still in the same scene when he's talking and confronting Brutus is when he states defiance treat us how are we in your teeth now here he is basically telling them that they you know he is defiant against anything that they do and of course he also is accusing them of being of betraying Julius Caesar the act of treachery is unforgivable and the word love analysis you want to do here is firstly the literation of tea and traitors and teeth of course here he's really passionate he basically wants blood he wants to draw blood from Brutus also the other word love analysis you want to do here is the violent verb hell okay now the final quotation to bear in mind with Octavius Caesar is interestingly when Brutus of course commits suicide because he realizes that defeat is imminent Octavius Caesar and Mark actually find his dead body and they actually recognize he still had very honorable qualities and honorable traits so Octavius Caesar is very respectable and he finds Brutus his dead body he basically states that he's an honorable man who deserves an honorable funeral well how he states this by saying according to his virtue let us use him with all respect and rights of burials now here what he's basically saying is you know I believe Julia Brutus was actually a very virtuous person the reason why he killed Julius Caesar is for very virtuous reasons protecting our country protecting our democracy and accordingly he deserves a really good burial okay so also here this is interesting because we can also see that Octavius is very honorable in his virtues too now the word of analysis you want to do is firstly the alliteration of age in his and him the abstract noun virtue this is where he's recognizing Brutus's honorable qualities and character and finally the assonance of you and us and use so really that's it when it comes to Octavius Caesar's character he is an interesting character he's not one of the main characters in Julius Caesar however you do need to be able to you know discuss him in in terms of how he his military prowess in terms of also his loyalty on the one hand to Julius Caesar but equally his recognition of Brutus's admirable qualities thanks so much for listening