JULIUS CAESAR-ACT 1_1

JULIUS CAESAR-ACT 1_1

1. VICTORY OVER POMPEY

2. Julius Caesar, Antony, Calpurnia, Brutus, Cassius, Casca

   • Decius, Cicero, Flavius, Murellus, Portia and soothsayer

3. IDES OF MARACH!

   • CAESAR DISMISSES THE WARNING

4. FEAST OF LUPERCAL

5. CASSIUS STARTS TO GET JEALOUS OVER CAESAR

   • CASSIUS MANIPULATES BRUTUS TO GET RID OF CAESAR
   • CASSIUS SENDS LETTERS INTO BRUTUS' ROOM IN DIFFERENT HAND WRITINGS AS THOUGH FROM ROMANS
     • BRUTUS AND CASSIUS JOIN THE CONSPIRACY
       • BRUTUS: EXAMPLE OF AN HONOURABLE MAN
         • HIS COMMITMENT TOWARDS PRINCIPLES LEADS HIM TO MAKE MISCALCULATIONS

6. BRUTUS CONVINCED THAT CAESAR IS NOT WORTHY ENOUGH TO BE RULER OF ROME

   • BRUTUS LOVES CAESAR BUT LOVES ROME MORE

7. CAESAR REFUSES THE OFFER OF THE CROWN THREE TIMES

8. CAESAR- THE FALLING SICKNESS (EPILEPCY)

9. JULIUS CAESAR: PHYSICALLY WEAK, STUBBORN, BLINDED BY HONOUR, SUPERSTITIOUS, VAIN, ARROGANT, SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLATTERY

   • Two sides of Caesar exist in the play: Caesar as a concept and as a human being. The human in Caesar is weak, needs Cassius to save him from drowning and has epileptic fits. However, the concept of Caesar, the great general and leader is all powerful and noble. His every word is a command, and the people follow him.

10. PROMINENT THEME: HONOUR

    • OTHER THEMES: MANHOOD AND HONOUR, POLITICS AND MORALITY, JEALOUSY, AND FATE

11. RHETORICAL QUESTIONS SOLILOQUEY

12. SYMBOLS: OMENS, BODY, PAIN AND BLOOD, AND ROME

    • The presence of omens and prophecies in Julius Caesar lends an air of the supernatural to the cold political machinery of Rome. And Cassius bases his suicide on a mistake—the bad omen was not accurate until he made it so by killing himself.
    • The human body echoes the body politic: the conspirators call Caesar's autocracy a sickness that must be cured; Calpurnia's dream about Caesar's bleeding statue is reinterpreted to mean that Rome draws its life from Caesar, as if his health were synonymous with the city's. Physical strength and weakness is important too. Caesar's great power is contrasted by infirmity—he's epileptic and partially deaf

13. LNAGUAGE: ANACHRONISMS, BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS, PUNS COMBINES WITH ANASTHESIS

14. FIGURES OF SPEECH

    • SIMILES OXYMORONS ANTITHESIS

15. CONFLICT BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC