Julius Caesar Act I ReviewSeven 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 15th 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