Julius Caesar

  • Biographical Info:

    • parents: John and Married: Amme Hathway

  • Author:

    • Shakespeare

    • 1580s

    • was a poet, playwright, and actor.

    • He wrote 54 sonnets and 37 plays

  • A sonnet is a very rigid poetic style of writing—14 lines consisting of 3 sets of 4-line quatrains and a 2-line rhyming couplet.

  • The Globe Theatre, also known as Shakespeare Globe Theatre, was not only one of the most famous playhouses of all time but also the playhouse where Shakespeare performed many of his greatest plays. It could hold up to 3000 people.

  • Devices used

    • asides: talks to the audience and the other actors can’t hear it

    • soliloquies: character giving a long speech

    • no actresses(female)

    • metaphors: comparing something in terms of something else

    • Puns: humourous plays on words indicating different meanings

  • Concepts covered through J.C(Plot):

    • political intrigue

    • magical occurrences

    • military conquest

  • Setting:

    • J.C. is largely set in Rome, in February of year 44 BC

    • Battle of Philippi

  • J.C.

    • He was fighting Pompey

    • Very powerful

    • Loved by the lower class hated by the upper class

  • Brutus

  • Casca

  • Cassius

    These omens could take the form of unusual weather, flights of birds, or other natural phenomena.

  • Act 1: Exposition-Characters and Exposition

  • Act 2: Rising Action-Introduction of Conflicts

  • Act 3: Climax-Turning Point

  • Act 4: Falling Action-Conflict resolution begins to fall into place

  • Act 4: Denouement

  • Mood

    • impending doom, catastrophe

    • manipulation,conspiracy

    • violence

    • political intrigue

    • eerie

    • revenge

  • Act 1 Scene 1:

    • The people are going to celebrate Ceasar but Flavius and Marullus are cautious because of past events.

  • How can a struggle for power drive the conflict?

Act 1 Scene 2:

  • Brutus is struggling with internal conflict

  • Caccius is planting the seed that we are no better than Ceasar(maybe jealous)

  • Why did Ceasar deny the crown three times?

    • Ceasar denied the crown 3 times to appear humble to the crowd bc that will make them want him more

  • Summary

In Act 1 Scene 3, Caesar is becoming king. Cassius is jealous of Caesar and conspires to overthrow him. Cassius and Casca go to Brutus to convince him to work with them. The Soothsayer predicts all this!!!!!

Act 1:

In three scenes total Caesar conquers Pompey

  • Two tri boons give caution to the people about how they already had a government and it didn’t end well

  • Lupercala: the festival going on

  • Soothsayer: Beware the idles of March- he’s foreshadowing something bad coming up

  • Rome is a republic they don’t want tyranny or dictatorship

  • Brutus is Caesar’s best friend-Brutus does not want to see dictatorship again so he doesn’t want Caesar to take over. Brutus is thinking about the country, not his BFF.

  • Cassius is jealous and wants to overthrow the dictatorship. He butters up Brutus by reminding him of his ancestry. Creates letters from fake concerned citizens.

  • Casca:

  • Cinna: puts the letters in Brutus's window

Act 2 Summary: Brutus comes home and his wife asks what is wrong with him. He says that he is just sick. Portia stabs herself in the leg and Brutus is about to tell her when there is a knock on the door. Calpunia, Caesar’s wife, is having nightmares about Caesar being killed and begs him to stay home and he decides to stay home when Decilous comes in and asks if Caesar is a coward. And if he is not there then they can’t crown him.

Act 3 Summary: Cinna is the conspirator

Decius gives J.C a letter and the conspirator takes Mark Antony away so no one can save him Casca stabs J.C- J.C. says e tu brute(and you Brutus)-J.C. can’t believe his BFF betrayed him Antony asks if he can carry J.C.'s body to the town and speak to the people Brutus addresses the crowd 1st then Antony speaks 2ndand convinces the people that J.C. is innocent then reads J.C.’s will which says that he leaves money to all the people and the crowd is determined to revenge J.C. by killing the conspirators.