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PBHS JuliusCaesar II
PBHS Julius Caesar Act II Study Guide and Quotes
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setting of Act II, Scene I | Brutus's Orchard and House |
setting of Act II, Scene II | Caesar's House |
setting of Act II, Scene III | a street in Rome |
setting of Act II, Scene IV | before the House of Brutus |
character(s) present in Act II, Scene I | Brutus, Lucius, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus, Trebonius, Portia, Ligarius |
character(s) present in Act II, Scene II | Caesar, Servant, Calphurnia, Decius, Publius, Brutus, Antony, Trebonius |
character(s) present in Act II, Scene III | Artemidorus |
character(s) present in Act II, Scene IV | Portia, Lucius, Soothsayer |
what Brutus is doing at the beginning of scene I | calling for Lucius |
what Brutus asks Lucius to do in scene I | get him a taper in his study (light a candle in his study) |
what Brutus receives at the beginning of Scene I | a letter |
who visits Brutus in Scene I | Cassius and other conspirators |
who the conspirators include "for his silver hair", then decide not to include him because Brutus protests | Cicero |
the person the conspirators are afraid of because of his relationship to Caesar, they also propose assassinating him | Antony |
the time that the conspirators want to disperse | 3 o'clock |
the man who "doth bear Caesar hard" and joins in the conspiracy at Metellus's calling | Caius Ligarius |
Brutus's wife | Portia |
thinks Brutus is sick and is worried about him | Portia |
the "sick man"(according to Lucius) who visits Brutus after he talks to Portia | Caius Ligarius |
decides to follow Brutus at the end of Scene I | Caius Ligarius |
what Caesar orders his servant to do at the beginning at Scene II | order the priests to make a sacrifice |
the person who has dreams of Caesar's murder | his wife Calphurnia |
the outcome of the sacrifice | "plucking the entrails of an offering forth, they could not find a heart within the beast" |
the priests' opinion of the day | they do not want Caesar to go out |
Caesar's original decision in Scene II | to stay home |
Caesar's original plan in Scene II | for Antony to say that he is not well |
the conspirator who convinces Caesar to go out | Decius |
why Caesar wants to go out in Scene II | to receive the crown from the senators |
what Decius claims about Calphurnia's dream | she did not interpret it correctly, and it i it was actually a dream that showed Rome benefiting from Caesar's rule |
what happens in scene III | Artemidorus writes a letter warning Caesar and decides to stand in the street to wait for him to pass by to warn him |
what Portia orders Lucius to do in Scene IV | run to the senate house and return and see if Brutus looks well |
the person who enters near the beginning of Scene IV to talk to Portia | the Soothsayer |
Portia's opinion towards the conspiracy | she doesn't support the conspiracy but supports her husband |
"What, Lucius, ho!" | Brutus |
"Get me a taper in my study" | Brutus |
"Speak, Strike, Redress!" | Brutus when reading his letter |
"Yes, every man of them; and no man here But honors you, and every one doth wish You had but that opinion of yourself..." | Cassius |
"Betwixt your eyes and night?" | Brutus |
"O let us have him, for his silver hairs..." | Metellus |
"He will never follow anything that other men begin..." | Brutus referring to Cicero |
"Shall no man else be touched, but only Caesar?" | Decius |
"..Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully.." | Brutus |
"I think it is not meet Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar, should outlive Caesar.." | Cassius |
"To cut the head off and then hack the limbs Like wrath in death and envy afterwards..." | Brutus |
"Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers..." | Brutus |
"Let not our look put on our purposes, but bear it as our Roman actors do..." | Brutus |
"Set on your foot, and with a heart new-fired I follow you..." | Ligarius |
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once..." | Caesar |
"Your wisdom is consumed in confidence..." | Calphurnia |
"Lest I be laughed at when I tell them so" | Decius |
"That every like is not the same, O Caesar,the Heart of Brutus earns to think upon" | Brutus |
"I have a man's mind but a woman's might" | Portia |