JULIUS CAESAR-ACT 1

JULIUS CAESAR-ACT 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

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

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

14. FIGURES OF SPEECH

    • SIMILES OXYMORONS ANTITHESIS

15. CONFLICT BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC