Act 1 Flashcards
an elected official who represents commoners
Marullus
senator who does not believe in omens
Cicero
Casca claims the conspiracy needs this man to give their cause reliability
Brutus
willing to do whatever the conspiracy needs
Casca
leader of the conspiracy
Cassius
Caesar’s wife
Calphurnia
“… I have not from your eyes that gentleness
- And show of love as I was wont to have.*
- You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand*
- Over your friend that loves you.*” (1.2.33-36)
Cassius
“Brutus’ and ‘Caesar’, What should be in that ‘Caesar’?
- Why should that name be sounded more than yours?*
- Write them together: yours is as fair a name.*
- Sound them: it doth become the mouth as well.”*
(1. 2.142-145)
Cassius
“Let me have men about me that are fat;
- Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights.”*
(1. 2.192-193)
Caesar
“…I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown - yet ‘twas not
- a crown neither, ‘twas one of these coronets - and, as I told*
- you, he put it by once; but for all that, to my thinking, he*
- would fave have had it..”* (1.2.234-238)
Casca
“H**im and his worth and our great need of him
- You have right well conceited. Let us go,*
- For it is after midnight; and ere day*
- We will awake him and be sure of him.*” (1.3.161-164)
Cassius
Why are Marullus and Flavius upset?
The citizens seem to have forgotten their love for Pompey.
Cassius compares the conspiracy’s enterprise to ___.
a red sky, bloody, fiery, and most terrible
The foul weather and portentous signs suggest ___.
The gods are unhappy with Rome’s current political situation.
After putting a Shakespeare quotation in your own writing, you must place what at the end of the sentence?
a citation
