Julius Caesar Act I Review Seven Lakes High School

Plot Review  Why do Flavius and Marullus try to disrupt the festivities?  They want to get attention from the maidens  They are planning to murder Caesar later that day  They are angry that the plebes are not loyal to Pompey  They feel Caesar will be embarrassed by the festival  What does Caesar ask Antony to do during the race?  Win first place  Push the other runner  Smile and wave to Caesar  Touch Calpurnia while he runs

Plot Review  How do the people respond to Caesar during the ceremony?  They boo and throw vegetables  They refuse to cheer for him  They clap and cheer  They get drunk and dance in the streets   Who is Caesar’s wife?  Cassius  Brutus  Calpurnia  Portia

Who Said it? “Men at some time are masters of their fates:/The fault,…is not in our stars,/But in ourselves, that we are the underlings.” Cassius “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;/He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.” Caesar “Forget not in your speed, Antonius,/To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say/The barren, touched in this holy chase,/Shake off their sterile curse.” Caesar “Those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me…” Casca

Literary Devices “He looks/Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays/As thou dost, Antony.” Foil Who is the speaker? Caesar “Beware the ides of March.” Foreshadowing Who is the speaker? The soothsayer “I rather tell thee what is to be feared/Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.” Tragic Flaw “Draw them to Tiber banks and weep your tears/Into the channel, till the lowest stream/Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.” Hyperbole

Plot Review  What does the soothsayer tell Caesar?  Beware of his friends  Don’t trust Cassius  Beware the 15 th of March  He cannot have a child   What is wrong with Caesar physically?  He has an injured leg  He was cut during battle  He is slowly going blind  He has epilepsy

Plot Review  What does Cassius throw in Brutus’ window?  Money for a bribe  Letters  A torch  The crown of Caesar  Which person is not part of the conspiracy to kill Caesar?  Brutus  Cassius  Casca  Antony

Who Said It? “Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth the eating.” Casca To Whom is this character speaking? Cassius “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/Like a Colossus, and we petty men/Walk under his huge legs and peep about/To find ourselves dishonorable graves.” Cassius To Whom is this character speaking? Brutus “Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,/And tell me truly what thou think’st of him.” Caesar To Whom is this character speaking? Antony

Literary Devices “I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,/Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder/The old Anchises bear…” allusion Who is the speaker? Cassius “I will in this night/In several hands, in at his windows throw,/As if they came from several citizens,/Writings…” Soliloquy Who is the speaker? Cassius “A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.” Pun Who is the speaker? The cobbler

Plot Review  Casca’s description of Caesar’s behavior when he is offered the crown suggests that Caesar owes his success most of all to  His family connections  His personal heroism and wealth  The support of a few wealthy noblemen  The manipulation of the masses (the people)  How does Caesar respond during the celebration ceremony?  He tells the people he will be a kind dictator  He refuses the crown three times  He accepts the crown and then has a seizure  He orders the death of the conspirators

“Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?” What is the meaning of “to grace” in this quote?  Who is the speaker of this quote?  Caesar  Pompey  Cassius  Marullus  To whom is he speaking? The rabblement.the cobbler and carpenter Caesar and Antony the conspirators

Who Said It? “If it be aught toward the general good,/Set honor in one eye/and death i’th’ other,/And I will look on both indifferently.” Brutus “Into what dangers would you lead me…/That you would have me seek into myself/For that which is not in me?” Brutus To Whom is this character speaking? Cassius “Ye gods! It doth amaze me,/A man of such feeble temper should/So get the start of the majestic world,/And bear the palm alone.” Cassius Who is the man this character is describing? Caesar

Literary Devices “O grief,/Where hast thou led me?” Apostrophe “…when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope ‘ his doublet and offered them his throat to cut.” Anachronism “That I do fawn on men and hug them hard,/And after scandal them; or if you know/That I profess myself in banqueting/To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.” Irony Who is the speaker of this quote? Cassius