Quiz

•There will be a quiz on all of Act One (Scenes One, Two, and Three) on Monday, November 8.

•Keep up with your study guide so that you will be prepared for our Shakespeare quizzes.

Julius CaesarAct One Scene

Three

Characterization

•There are a lot of characters with names that begin with C, so let’s work on telling them apart.

•Caesar, Cicero, Casca, Cassius, Cinna

•C also stands for conspirator, ie. people who were plotting Julius Caesar’s death.

Character Chart Instructions

• Write “Caesar” in the middle of your chart and draw a circle around him.

• Draw lines to other characters as we talk about them.

• Beneath the names, write a short sentence or two describing that character’s feelings towards Caesar.

• Leave extra space because we will add other characters as we read further.

Cicero• A very famous Roman

statesman, lawyer, philosopher, and orator.

• He had supported Pompey at first and was nervous about his political career.

• He had a tendency to “blow with the wind”.

• He did not join in Caesar’s murder, but said he wished he had and that they’d killed Mark Antony too.

Casca• Shakespeare writes

Casca as a “suck-up” in Caesar’s presence.

• However, Casca wants Caesar murdered just as much as Cassius does.

• He’s not willing to do it himself, though. He wants someone else to lead the murder.

Cinna

•Cinna would not be present at the murder of Julius Caesar, but he helps Cassius by sending a message to Brutus.

Imagery

Artists use images to convey a particular mood.What was Van Gogh conveying here?

Why do you think so?

The Starry NightVincent Van Gogh

1889

Shakespeare’s Imagery

•Read Casca’s description of his walk through the city on pages 1-2.

•Choose one image from this description. In your Google Doc, write 3-4 sentences. Identify the image, the mood Shakespeare was conveying with this image, and how it helps the plot.

“Indeed, it is a strange disposèd time!”

-Cicero

CASSIUSFor my part, I have walked about the streets

Submitting me unto the perilous night,And thus unbracèd, Casca, as you see,

Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;And when the cross blue lightning seemed to pen

The breast of heaven, I did present myselfEven in the aim and very flash of it.

Act One, Scene Three, Page Three

CASCABut wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?

It is the part of men to fear and trembleWhen the most mighty gods by tokens send

Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.

Act One, Scene Three, Page Three

CASCAIndeed, they say the senators

tomorrowMean to establish Caesar as a

king,And he shall wear his crown by

sea and landIn every place save here in

Italy. Actor Colm Feore as Julius Caesar(Ms. Sanders’

favourite actor. EVER.)

Act One, Scene Three, Page Four

CASSIUSAnd why should Caesar be a tyrant then?Poor man, I know he would not be a wolf

But that he sees the Romans are but sheep.He were no lion were not Romans hinds.

Those that with haste will make a mighty fireBegin it with weak straws. What trash is RomeWhat rubbish, and what offal, when it serves

For the base matter to illuminate So vile a thing as Caesar!

Act One, Scene Three, Page Five

CASSIUSNow I know you, Casca, I have moved alreadySome certain of the noblest-minded Romans

To undergo with me an enterpriseOf honourable-dangerous consequence;And I do know, by this they stay for me

In Pompey’s Porch.

Act One, Scene Three, Page Five

Theatre of Pompey

• This was a perfect place for the conspirators to meet.

Homework

•Answer the Study Guide questions for I.3:

•What is the effect of the storm? It's purpose?

•How does Cassius say he can escape tyranny?

•What is the next step in convincing Brutus?

• For next class, read 2.1 and 2.2.