The reason commoners are on the streets at the beginning of the play.
What is... Caesar is parading home after defeating Pompey?
The letter Brutus finds contains this message from "anonymous" Roman citizens.
Essentially: Deal with the tyrannical monarch problem before Caesar becomes king.
"Caesar shall go forth" to work, ignoring these warning(s).
At minimum, list TWO.
What is the Soothsayer's warning, the various omens during the night of March 14th, Calpurnia's dream of the bleeding statue, the animal without a heart sacrificed by the priests, and Artemidorus's letter.
Convinces Brutus to join the conspirators by sending "anonymous" letters calling for help against the tyrannical Caesar.
Who is Cassius?
And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg — which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous — and kill him in the shell. (II, i, 33-35)
Caesar before accepting the crown = An unborn serpent, both vulnerable.
This is Magneto's mutant power; a bit of a pun if you ask me.
What is... is magnetism?
Marullus and Flavius confront the Roman commoners and call them hypocrites because of this.
What is... they support Caesar/betrayed Pompey?
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears!" This simple orator betrays the conspirator's wishes by turning the crowd of Romans against them following Caesar's death. He has not words, but he does have Caesar's "mouths".
Who is Antony?
"A trade, sir, that I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles."
What is a Pun?
Sole = Soul?
Name ONE piece of evidence/logic Antony uses to prove that Caesar was not ambitious.
What is... Caesar cried for the poor, Caesar brought slaves and money from war, Caesar denied the crown, Caesar's will made the people his heir?
Deku from My Hero Academia gets his quirk "One For All" after eating the hair (a bit of literal synecdoche) of this Superman-inspired character.
Clue: Mr. Fitz has this Funko Pop in his room!
Who is All-Might?
The general gist of Cassius' argument for why Caesar cannot be king?
What is... Caesar is just like Brutus and Cassius: a normal Roman man because he almost drowned/got sick in Spain?
This reason is why Brutus has not been able to sleep recently.
What is... indecision about whether to join with the conspirators to Julius Caesar?
Name one of the two demands Brutus gives Antony before his speech at the forum.
Fill in the blank:
Et tu, _____________? Then, fall Caesar.
Who is Brute (Brutus)?
My ancestors did from the streets of Rome the Tarquin drive, when he was call’d a king. (II, i, 56-57)
What is an ALLUSION?
Brutus is alluding to his ancestor, Lucius Marcus Brutus who defeated King Tarquin, and delivered Rome out of rule by monarchy.
The evidence/logic Decius uses to convince Caesar that Calpurnia's dream is misinterpreted.
To say this Infinity Stone gave Captain Marvel her powers would not be hyperbole.
What is the Space Stone, also called the Tesseract?
What is thrice?
The nightmare Calpurnia sees regarding Caesar's fate.
What is... his statue covered with spouts pouring out red blood into a fountain that Roman people bathe in.
In Brutus' speech, he lists this as the reasoning for the murder of Caesar.
What is Caesar's ambition?
Who are Flavius OR Marullus?
But ‘tis a common proof, that lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. (II, i, 22-28)
What is a METAPHOR?
The "ladder" of success.
The evidence/logic Caesar uses to explain why he wishes Cassius was "fatter."
What is... he is too lean and therefore too hungry for power?
This recent Sydney Sweeney rom-com is an adaption of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
What is Anyone but You?
Flavius and Marullus were killed for this reason.
What is... vandalizing Caesar's statues in Rome?
1. Caesar is to be crowned king
2. Calpurnia's dream was a good omen
3. Caesar will be laughed at for staying home because of his wife
This is Antony's goal in persuading the Roman people to turn against the conspirators.
What is anarchy/chaos?
"It was Greek to me." This oafish conspirator gets the first stab when in during Caesar's assassination.
Who is Casca?
“Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, to cut the head off and then hack the limbs, like wrath in death and envy afterwards; for Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.” (II, i, 174-179)
What is a metaphor?
Hacking the limbs, butchering = Killing more than just Caesar, acting on noble motivations
The evidence/logic used by Cassius to explain why Caesar should not be king
There is nothing more tragic than this salesman in Avatar: The Last Airbender who routinely loses carts of this vegetable due to the hijinks of the main characters.
What are cabbages?
What is... a lion prowls the street, a man goes by on fire, meteors fall from the sky, a group of lady ghosts says "boo", etc.
What is... the Soothsayer plans to warn Caesar one more time about the Ides of March.
The Roman commoners mistake this person for a conspirator, but kill him anyways for his "bad verses".
Who is Cinna the Poet?
Who is Calpurnia?
“No Caesar hath not it, but you and I, and honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.” (I, ii, 271-272)
Falling sickness = Epilepsy, or in this case falling from societal grace/favor.
The evidence/logic used by Brutus to prove that Caesar needed to die because he was ambitious.
What is Sim City?