Quotes
"What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow?"
Saucy means: ___________
Disrespectful
"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it"
Based on Antony's speech, one can infer that Caesar (did or did not) abuse his power?
Caesar did not abuse his power.
Pun
He wants her to get pregnant.
This character thinks suicide is "vile and cowardly."
Brutus
"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 dishonourable graves."
Cassius feels _____ that Caesar is in power, and he is not.
a) bitter
b) happy
c) anger
d) relief
a) bitter
Brutus says this about himself:
"...that poor Brutus, with himself at war/forgets to shows of love to other men."
We see Brutus's ____ here.
Brutus has an internal conflict
"How many ages hence/ Shall this our lofty scene be acted over/ In states unborn and accents unknown."
Irony
This character is the one who said they should smear blood on their hands, arms, and swords to show their pride in their murder of Caesar.
Brutus
Brutus kills Caesar for:
love of Rome
"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Cassius says these lines, referring to the belief that humans (create /do not create) their own destiny.
The belief that humans create their own destiny.
Antony repeating/repetition: "Brutus is an honorable man," in his funeral speech is a form of ______________
Verbal irony/ sarcasm
"For Antony is but a limb of Caesar."
Metaphor
The 2nd Triumvirate is:
Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus
Caesar's tragic flaw:
arrogance
When Cassius compares Brutus's name to Caesar's:
"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?"
He's trying to convince Brutus to join _____.
The conspiracy
"O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
25There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king."
Cassius tries to appeal to Brutus's _______.
Brutus's noble ancestry
Caesar says:
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much, such men are dangerous."
This is: ____________
foreshadowing
Brutus doesn't want to swear an __________ with the other conspirators becasue he believes thier cause of murdering Caesar is honorable.
oath
Cassius is accused of having an itching palm. Why?
He takes bribes.
Cassius says:
"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 dishonourable graves."
The Colossus in line 2 refers to a ___________.
Statue
Antony says these lines at Caesar's funeral:
"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;"
Restate in today's language:
A person's good deeds are soon forgotten, while his mistakes are long remembered.
Caesar in Act 2 on his way to the Senate: "And we (like friends) will straightway go together."
Irony
This character's brother is banished. This is the diversion the conspirators use to get Caesar in "position."
Metellus Cimber
This character blames himself for Cassius's death. He kills himself right after finding out Cassius is dead.
Titinius