BY-ZACH, ARYAMAN,ADITYA, JOONYOUNG ACT-2 JULIUS CAESAR BY-ZACH, ARYAMAN,ADITYA, JOONYOUNG

INTRODUCTION SCENE-1: Brutus is contemplating whether to go along and kill Caesar or not He recives a letter which urges him to kill Caesar But his wife Portia wants him to tell her what is happening

INTRODUCTION SCENE-2: In this scene Caesar is asked to go to the capitol but his wife urges him to stay home. But his wife urges him to stay home and he agrees to stay until one of the conspirators persuade him to go to the capitol and he agrees to go.

INTRODUCTION SCENE-3: In this scene one of Caesar’s supporters has intercepted a message telling us about about the ides of March and revealing the names of the conspirators ,the supporter tries to warn Caesar ,but Caesar refuses to listen.

INTRODUCTION SCENE-4: In this scene Caesar’s wife Portia has concern for Caesar so she sends one of her servants to find out what is going on in the capitol. And she is so distracted that she is unable to tell him the purpose. She is alluding to the fact that she knows what Brutus is planning to do to Caesar, and is unwilling to keep it a secret.

CHARACTERS Brutus Brutus emerges as the most complex character in Julius Caesar and he also play’s The tragic hero. In his soliloquies, the audience gains insight into the complexities of his motives. He is a powerful public figure, but he appears also as a husband, a master to his servants, a dignified military leader, and a loving friend. The conflicting value systems that battle with each other in the play as a whole are enacted on a microcosmic level in Brutus’s mind.

Brutus Brutus’s rigid idealism is both his greatest virtue and his most deadly flaw. In the world of the play, where self-serving ambition seems to dominate all other motivations, Brutus lives up to Antony’s elegiac description of him as “the noblest of Romans.”

Brutus Brutus later endangers his good relationship with Cassius by self-righteously condemning what he sees as dishonorable fund-raising tactics on Cassius’s part.

CAESAR The conspirators charge Caesar with ambition, and his behavior substantiates this judgment: he does vie for absolute power over Rome, reveling in the homage he receives from others and in his conception of himself as a figure who will live on forever in men’s minds. However, his faith in his own permanence—in the sense of both his loyalty to principles and his fixture as a public institution—eventually proves his undoing

CAESAR . At first, he stubbornly refuses to heed the nightmares of his wife, Calpurnia, and the supernatural omens pervading the atmosphere. Though he is eventually persuaded not to go to the Senate, Caesar ultimately lets his ambition get the better of him, as the prospect of being crowned king proves too glorious to resist.

Antony Antony proves strong in all of the ways that Brutus proves weak. His impulsive, improvisatory nature serves him perfectly, first to persuade the conspirators that he is on their side, thus gaining their leniency, and then to persuade the plebeians of the conspirators’ injustice, thus gaining the masses’ political support. Not too scrupulous to stoop to deceit and duplicity, as Brutus claims to be, Antony proves himself a consummate politician, using gestures and skilled rhetoric to his advantage.

SETTINGS Events in this act take place in SCENE:1-Brutus’s orchard night SCENE:2-Caesars house early morning SCENE:3-Rome a street SCENE:4-Rome a street

QUESTIONS Sc-1: Has Brutus decided to kill Caesar, what are his reasons?? Sc-2 Why is Caesar scared of Calpurnia’s dream and why does Caesar still decide to go to the capitol??

QUESTIONS Sc-3 Who intercepted the letter with all the names of all the conspirators ??

ANSWERS SC:1: Brutus has decided that Caesar must be killed. His reasons for reaching this conclusion are that Caesar is abusing his power and that has ascended far too quickly.

SC-2: Caesar, still in his nightgown, is terrified by a dream his wife Calpurnia has had in which she cried out, "Help, ho! They murder Caesar!" He orders a servant to go to the priests and have them sacrifice an animal in order to read the entrails for predictions of the future. Calpurnia arrives and tells him that he dare not leave the house that day

. Caesar acts brave and tells her that he fears nothing, and that he will die when it is necessary for him to die. The servant returns and tells him that the sacrificed animal did not have a heart, a very bad omen. Caesar insists on misinterpreting the omens, but Calpurnia begs him to blame her for his absence from the Senate, to which he finally agrees.

However, Decius soon arrives to fetch Caesar to the Senate House However, Decius soon arrives to fetch Caesar to the Senate House. Caesar tells him to inform the Senate that he will not come this day. Decius claims that he will be mocked if he cannot provide a good reason for Caesar's absence.

SC-3: Artemidorus has written Caesar a letter in which he names all of the conspirators against Caesar. He stands on a street near the Capitol and waits for Caesar to pass by on his way to the Senate so that he can hand Caesar the note.

THEMES DEATH:the idea of death and its physicalrepresentation runs through the play. PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE: aspects of the play explore the dramatic tention between public and private events. Blood:

Important Quotes Calpurnia “When beggars die there are no comets seen, The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of a prince” Brutus “Render me worthy of this noble wife” Lucius “Sir march has wasted 15 days”

IMP. QUOTES Brutus “It must be by his death. And for my part” Cassius “ let us swear an oath” Brutus “NO! not an oath If not the face of men let, the sufferance of our souls”