Julius Caesar Act 1

Julius Caesar Act 1

1. Marallus

   • Speech: weren't you happy for Pompey? you were eager for him to arrive and would stay on your roofs with your babies in your hand

2. Flavius

   • Speech: go cry

3. Vandalizing statues of Pompey and replacing them with statues of Caesar

4. Soothsayer says to be beware of March 15, but he doesn't give any information and Caesar claims that he is a dream, is crazy, and isn't saying the truth

   • Soothsayer: a person who reads the future

5. Brutus

   • I don't want you to think that I don't love other people, I just need a break and it's myself that I have to fight
   • I don't want Caesar to be king, but I like him as a person
   • Cares about the good of the order, everyone else, justice, honor, and mortals
     • Welfare of Rome
   • To Cassius: I'll think about it and you think about this: I'd rather blend in than those who fought for the Republic
   • Casca confirms need to overthrow Caesar

6. Cassius

   • Brutus, you don't see how worthy you are
     • Everyone except for Caesar wishes how great you are
   • Experiences with Caesar
     • Saved Caesar's life because he drowns
       • compares to piggy back
       • Appeals to logic; we are just as good as him
     • Caesar had a fever when he was in Spain
       • Not as strong as ppl think
   • Says the name Brutus and Caesar incite ppl to act
   • Reminds Brutus that Caesar could become a dictator that his descendants helped fight to create the Republic
     • Appeal to ethics: you are something greater and it is your duty to live up to your father's accomplishments
   • No, we are falling for Caesar's manipulative plan
   • If Iwere Brutus, I wouln't listen to myself; Caesar relents me but loves Brutus
     • Using Brutus because he is noble and ethical
     • Write note sin different pendmenship to look like to be from citizens of Rome to show that citizens want Brutus to be king, instead of Caesar
   • Believes ppl who see faults in Caesar are going to be alright
   • "He bared my bosom ro the thunder-stone"
     • SHows that he is egoistic and arrogant
   • Puts letters on ancestor Brutus statue where the ppl will see it too

7. Caesar

   • Reads ppl's expressions and analyzes it
   • Doesn't smile and watch plays
     • Calculated; doesn't do anything for pleasure
   • Rejects crown 3 times, foams at the mouth, and faints
     • Rips open his jacket
       • Asks Casca to slith my throat

8. Casca

   • -Bystander -Literal person
   • Marallus and Flavius were removed from office/imprisoned because they put scarves hove Caesar's statues
   • Opinionated on retelling of Caesar's power to the throne
     • Would have killed Caesar by slitting his throat Thinks the fainting is fake
   • Walked through a storm and thinks the gods are punishing them with hiorrible storm because they are about to make Caesar king
     • Fire-hand man: A man who has his hand on fire, but his fingers do not burn
     • Lion who walks past by
     • 100 ghost ladies crying who swear they see men on fire walking down the streets
     • Fire men completely embodied in fire
     • Owl
     • Isn't afraid of the omens that are happening
   • We definitely need to bring a stop to this and we can do this with the power we had
     • He will go with the guy who will take it the farthest to kill Caesar

9. Cicero

   • Doesn't trust Casca
   • Leaves because the storm is bad

10. Cassius: leader of Act 1