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| How does the play begin? | Caesar is in triumph for his defeat of Pompey's sons in Spain |
| What is combined with the beginning of the play? | The feast of lupercal is being celebrated along w/Caesar's return |
| What does Caesar's growing "ambition" release? | a group of nobles who form a conspiracy. |
| How did the conspirators get Brutus to join them? | they wanted his name and purity toi cover their own more sordid motives. |
| What did Brutus say about killing Caesar? | "Let us be sacrificers, not butchers." |
| What are two distictive things that indicated that something bad might happen to Caesar? | Calphurnia's distrubing dream, soothsayer's "Beware the ides of March." |
| What was Calphurnia's dream about? | she had a dream that Caesar was a statue with holes all through him and blood pouring out, and the citizens were bathing in it |
| What is a bad decision that Cassius let's Brutus get away with? | Not killing Antony and letting him speak at the funeral. |
| What happens after Antony speaks at Caesar's funeral? | the mob is so stirred by his speech that they are so inraged they run out to burn the conspirators houses. |
| Which of the conspirator's flee? | Cassius and Brutus |
| What are Antony's famous words while he watches the crowd go balistic? | "Mischeif, thou art afoot." |
| What 3 reasons does Antony use to say that Caesar was a good man? | he filled the treasury, sympathized with the poor and refused the crown |
| What else did Antony do to win over the crowd by flattering Caesar? | he made a fake will saying that Caesar would give all his money to the people of Rome |
| Who is Calphurina? | Caesar's wife |
| Who is Portia? | Brutus's wife |
| Who are Flavius and Marullus? | Tribunes who scold the citizens in the first scene |
| Who is Octavius? | the adopted son and heir of Caesar. |
| What is anachronism? | something not historically correct (clocks chiming, the mention of masked actors) |
| What is parallelism? | repitition of words or phrases that have similar gramatical structure. |
| What are 2 things that the conspirators think Antony is? | a coward because he doesn't strie back out of fear, and a flatterer because he "forgives" the conspirators so quickly |
| How are rhetorical questions used? | as weapons in the political arena. |
| How does Caesar show his pride and self-absorption? | by talking in third person |
| Who is the hottest guy in the whole world? | Rory Woods |
| What does Antony repeat in his speech? | "Brutus is an honorable man." |
