 What theater does is put real people at real people scale in front of us. It makes Brutus and Cassius two Roman titans. It makes them men of our scale who have to get over a serious blow to their friendship. Brutus and Cassius are really profound friends who find a political alliance that actually ends up threatening their friendship and then reaffirm their friendship before the dissolution of their armies in what is a really powerful scene, a scene in the fourth act of that play