Q.
On
the basis of your reading of the play answer the following questions.
1.
How do the heavens “blaze forth”
the death of Julius Caesar?
2.
What does Calpurnia try to convince Caesar of?
3.
Why does Calpurnia say that Caesar’s “wisdom is consumed
in confidence”? What does she mean?
4.
What does Calpurnia dream about Caesar? How does Decius Brutus
interpret the dream?
5.
What are the arguments put forward by Decius Brutus to convince
Caesar to go to the Capitol?
6.
Why is Decius more successful in persuading Caesar than Calpurnia?
7.
What is the petition put before Caesar by the conspirators? How does
Caesar respond to it?
8.
Who says “Et tu Brute”? When are these words spoken? Why?
9.
In the moments following Caesar’s death what do the
conspirators proclaim to justify Caesar’s death?
10.
Seeing the body of Caesar, Antony is overcome by grief. What does he
say about Caesar?
11.
Whom does Antony call “the choice and master spirits of this
age”? Why?
12.
How do Brutus and Cassius respond to his speech?
13.
Why does Cassius object to allowing Antony to speak at Caesar’s
funeral? How does Brutus overcome this objection?
14.
What are the conditions imposed by the conspirators before allowing
Antony to speak at Caesar’s funeral?
15.
When he is left alone with the body of Caesar what does Antony call
Brutus and the others?
16.
What
prediction does Antony make regarding the future events in Rome?
17.
What reasons does Brutus give for murdering Caesar?
18.
Who says, “Let him be Caesar”? What light does this throw
on the speaker?
19.
Why is Antony’s speech more effective?
20.
At the end of the scene what is the fate of Brutus and Cassius?
