Julius Caesar Flashcards
Julius Caesar parallels what world
Elizabethean period
James I
Who wrote Julius Caesar
Shakespeare
Shakespeare emphasizes how leaders powers lays on the fickle power of who?
Peasants, lower class, populace
Rome suffers between consatsnt infighting between which 2 groups
weak senators, and military
Who is Brutus’ wife
Portia
Where does Brutus see Caesar’s ghost second
Philipi
Who stabbed Caeser first
Casca
Caesar’s assasination date
March 15 44 BC
“Speak hands for me!”
Casca
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes?”
Calpurnia
“I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary wound Here in the thigh.”
Portia
“Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.”
Cassius
“He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake. Tis true this god did shake.”
Cassius
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.”
Cassius
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
Brutus
“And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg, Which hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.”
Brutus
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
Brutus
“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.”
Mark Antony
who convinces Caesar to go to the capital?
Decius
name for a roman soldier
Plebien
“Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.”
Mark Antony
“This was the most unkindest cut of all.”
Mark Antony
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones;”
Mark Antony
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar
“Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”
Caesar
“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;”
Caesar
“Et tu, Brute? - Then fall Caesar!”
Caesar
“He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”
who says this and who is it referring to
said by Caesar
refers to Cassius
“This was the noblest Roman of them all.”
who says this and who is it referring to
said by Mark Antony
refers to Brutus
“Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.”
who says this and who is it referring to
said by Mark Antony
refers to Caesar
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus,”
who says this and who is it referring to
said by Cassius
refers to Caesar
“with this she fell distract, And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire.”
who says this and who is it referring to
said by Brutus
refers to Portia
“Yet I fear him, For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar–”
who says this and who is it referring to
said by Cassius
refers to Mark Antony
