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Julius caesar

Julius caesar. BACKGROUND, AND BREAKDOWN OF ACTS. Shakespeare’s theatre. SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRE- THE GLOBE THEATRE TYPES OF PLAYS 1. HISTORIES 2. TRAGEDIES 3. COMEDIES. Shakespeare’s theatre.

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Julius caesar

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  1. Julius caesar BACKGROUND, AND BREAKDOWN OF ACTS

  2. Shakespeare’s theatre • SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRE- THE GLOBE THEATRE • TYPES OF PLAYS • 1. HISTORIES • 2. TRAGEDIES • 3. COMEDIES

  3. Shakespeare’s theatre • CATHARSIS- AN EMOTIONAL OUTLET BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE PLAY. I.E. LAUGHING, CRYING ETC. • TRAGIC HERO- A CHARACTER IN A STORY OR PLAY WHOSE DOWNFALL IN BROUGHT ABOUT BY A FLAW IN THEIR CHARACTER. I.E. BRUTUS- JEALOUSY AND NEED FOR POWER

  4. ACT 1- JULIUS CAESAR • The play opens in a humorous way with a little word play between Flavius, Marullus and a few workers. • Julius Caesar has returned home after his defeat of Pompey. • The commoners love Caesar, but the town officials hate him. • We learn that Caesar is very superstitious. There is a lot of superstition in this play.

  5. Act 1 (cont.) • To support this claim, a soothsayer (fortune teller) warns Caesar to beware the Ides of March. • Caesar ignores his warning. • Caesar is offered the crown three times and refuses it each time, even though the people are cheering for him to take it.

  6. ACT 1 CONTINUED • While this is going on, Cassius tries to convince Brutus that Caesar is too ambitious and should be killed. • Brutus says he will not betray his honor to Caesar and to Rome. • That evening there are strange things that happen. The weather is violent and fire is falling from the sky. Most people believe this to be a bad omen, but Cassius disagrees.

  7. Act 1 (cont.) • Cassius sees the weather as an omen for evil men (Caesar) and others should not be afraid. • The plotting continues.

  8. ACT II • Cassius convinces Brutus that Rome would be better off if Caesar were killed. • Brutus feels that it is not necessary for anyone else to be killed. Only Caesar. • Caesar is wondering if he should remain home on the Ides of March since he was warned by the soothsayer.

  9. Act ii (cont.) • Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, begs him to stay home because she has had a terrible dream in which she sees Caesar murdered. • He agrees to stay home, until Decius Brutus persuades him to go by telling him the dream was about him saving Rome. Caesar goes to the capital. • Artemidorus waits in the streets of Rome to give Caesar a letter warning him of the conspiracy.

  10. ACT III • Attempts are made to warn Caesar of the plot to kill him, but he ignores them all. • Caesar is killed in the Senate House. He was stabbed 33 times by “his friends.” • Brutus stops the others from killing anyone else. • Mark Antony enters and pretends to be friends with the conspirators and Brutus grants him permission to speak at Caesar’s funeral. BAD IDEA!!!!

  11. ACT III CONT. • Brutus speaks at the funeral first, and the crowd goes along with his reasons that Caesar must die, until Antony speaks. • Throughout his speech, he never says a bad word about Brutus or the others, but talks about what a great and noble man Caesar was willing to sacrifice everything for the good of Rome. • The listeners become angry and a mob runs through the streets in search of the conspirators ready to kill the first one they see.

  12. VOCABULARY YOU WILL HEAR • Augmented- to make greater • Entreated- to plead or beg. • Insurrection- rebellion • Resolution- determined or strong; a plan or decision. • Wrathfully- with intense anger

  13. Vocab (cont.) • Imminent- about to happen. • Confounded- confused. • Spectacle- a remarkable sight. • Prophesy- to predict what will happen. • Interred- buried.

  14. VOCABULARY CONT. • Demeanor- behavior. • Presage- to give a warning sign about a future event. • Disconsolate- so unhappy that nothing can bring comfort. • Misconstrued- misinterpreted. • Meditate- to think deeply.

  15. Act iv • Battle plans are being made as well as a list of people supportive of Brutus and the conspirators. • These people are to be killed. Antony has become very cocky and difficult to deal with. • Octavius and Antony pick people (even family members) who are to be executed. • Brutus and Cassius argue. The dissension between the two is due to a guilty conscience that Brutus is having.

  16. ACT IV CONT. • After a while, they make up, but if things aren’t bad enough for Brutus, he finds out that his wife (Portia) has committed suicide by swallowing hot coals. • Later Brutus sees the ghost of Caesar ( his guilty conscience again). The ghost tells Brutus he will see him again at Philippi (the battle field).

  17. ACT V • The battle is about to begin. Octavius, Antony, Cassius and Brutus meet on the battlefield and talk. (all they do is argue). • Brutus and Cassius talk about the battle and say good bye to each other. • Brutus’s men are defeated. • Pindarus tells Cassius that Brutus has been taken and Antony has defeated him.

  18. ACT IV CONT. • Cassius kills himself and after seeing Cassius’s dead body, Titinius kills himself. • Brutus says that Caesar’s spirit walks abroad- Caesar will make his killers die. • Brutus and Cassius’s armies are overwhelmed and Antony and Octavius are moving in on Brutus. • Brutus asks Strato to kill him and he does.

  19. ACT IV THE END • Once Antony and Octavius find the body they say that Brutus was the noblest Roman of them all. He was the only one who did what he did for the good of Rome.

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