Plot
Feast of Luprical celebrated along with his return
Caesar
The most powerful man in Rome.
Julius Caesar
"Like a Colossus, and we petty men..."
"When went there by an age, since the great flood..."
Allusion
Tore down decorations for Caesar's return with Metellus
Flavius
Anthony uses this appeal to sway the people to his side
Pathos
Soothsayer begins the suspicion
Warns Caesar of the Ides of March
I warn Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March"
Soothsayer
Portia's tone when she pleas with Brutus to talk to her
desperate/self-assured
Threatened to stab her thigh to get her husband to open up about what was bothering him
Portia
Caesar saying that Cassius had a "lean and hungry look" created these elements for the play
Foreshadow and Suspension through superstition
Discussion in Brutus's garden
Plan to kill Caesar
Although I disagree with Brutus's actions, I know his heart was in the right place.
Marc Antony
"Brutus is an honorable man"
verbal irony
Nightmare almost kept her husband home
Calphurnia
Caesar's tragic flaw
arrogance
Climax of the play
Antony speaks at the funeral
I told Brutus of Antony offering Caesar the crown and am the first to stab Caesar.
Casca
Symbolism of Caesar's ghost
Brutus's guilty conscience
Has a lean and hungry look because he's jealous
Cassius
a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation
archetype
Resolution of the play
Antony buries Brutus as a hero
I am swayed by an anonymous letter that was left on my windowsill.
Brutus
One theme presented by Cassius and Casca
"That part of tyranny that I do bear I can shake off at pleasure./So can I. So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to conceal his captivity."
The power of the individual to change the world by force
One whose sole purpose is to deceive Caesar
Decius
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"
parallelism