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| Act 1 Scene 1 4) Flavius: Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home! Is this a holiday? What know you not, being mechanical, you ought not walk upon a laboring day without the sign of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou.Flavius treats people as if he is the law and they were an object. He is respected because he is in a higer class and most likly has a plethora of money and many pesants would love business from him.Flavius also seems confused on why no one is woking and is searching to find an answer and is getting everyone to work. 7) Cobbler: All I am is a skilled worker trying to do my best in this world and Flavius is making it really hard on me. I try to make ends meat form fixing shouse that belong to almost anyone. Marullas acts as if I would kill him but all I am simply tring to do is repair shoes and it is a new holiday, so i really don't have to work becuase the great powerfull Caesar is back and we can all rejoice and be marry. Yet I need the trade. Oh I do hope that they will enjoy my work so they come back and trade with me. 6)Flavius and Marullas know one another and seem to be a gard or a cop of some sort. The cobbler is just a peasent and is affraid of Flavius and Marullas or he seem only intrested in trade with them. Flavius and Marullas keep asking people the same thing and that is why they are not woking. Flavius and Marullas seem to be confused with the cobbler and ask him why no one is working. The relationship between all three of them seem to be on business but the way Flavius and Marullas talk to one another, it seems to make them friends or in one way they know each other. All three of them know who and what Caesar is and does. Act 1 Scene 2 5) Caesar: Forget not in your speed, Antonius, to touch Calpurnia, for our elders say the barren, touched in this hole chase, shake off thir sterile curse. In the beginning of the scene Caesar asks Antonius to remember to give his wife the gift of barring a child becasue if you touch the woman during a race they will be able to have childern again. Antonius would do anything for Caesar and wont forget or he just might die. I was actually suprised that Calpurnia couldn't have children and I was confused about the curse being "lifted" in such an easy manner. I wasn't really suprised that people would do anything for Caesar becuase he was a really great person even tough he wasn't a king. 1) Caesar is worring about his wife being able to have children. Caesar, Cassius and Brutus are walking through town when a man tells them to beware of March and he almost gets killed for saying that. I think that Cassius and Brutus are making plans to kill Caesar as soon as he left. Brutus seemed like he was jealous. "That you do love me, I am nothing jealous; What you would work me to, I have some aim: How I have thought of this and of these times, I shall recount hereafter; for this present, I would not, so with love I might entreat you, Be any further moved" 2)I think when Brutus says "What means this shouting? I do fear, the people Choose Caesar for their king", is an important part in the play because it makes people suspect that Brutus is going to do something bad later on in the play. I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well. But wherefore do you hold me here so long? What is it that you would impart to me? "If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently, For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death" is also important because it tell the reader that Brutus is trying to hide something or trying to save his own bottom. Act 1 Scene 3 5) Casca is afriad that people burnign and gods fighting or being upset with man. "Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, To be exalted with the threatening clouds: But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. Either there is a civil strife in heaven, Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction." When he says this I think of the gods being mad at man becasue it is attacking man but it really is about weather changes and the few knowlage that people had back in Shakspeare's time. 2) Casca: "There were drawn upon a heap a hundred ghastly wemon transformed with their fear, who swore they saw men all in fire waslk up and dow the streetsAnd yesterday the bird of night did sit Even at noon-day upon the market-place, Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies Do so conjointly meet, let not men say 'These are their reasons; they are natural;' For, I believe, they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon". This is significant because it describes the weather and how the world is at the time. It also tells how frightend people were duirng this time and how they believed that the heavens were mad them. 6) Casca and Cassius have met because Casca tells him what he fears and hopes that some way they can fix this horrible thing thats happening. Cinna also knows them because he comes to them telling them the same problems. They go to see Brutus to ask him for his help in this whole mess of the gods fighting. CASSIUS: "Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day See Brutus at his house: three parts of him Is ours already, and the man entire Upon the next encounter yields him ours". CASCA : "O, he sits high in all the people's hearts: And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness." Act 2 Scene 1 2) "It must be by his death: and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that;-- And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with. The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason" This line is important because it is saying that Brutus is going to kill Caesar or he knows that someone is going to kill him before he gets crowned. It kinda means that Brutus is jealouse of him even though he said he isn't. I aslso think it is telling they are going to kill him by stabbing him with a knife. 7)BRUTUS: I can't trust just anyone. I have to have the men who will not tell on me. I must kill Caesar and I must do it soon. Where can I find such men? I know Cassius is bringing men to help with this but how do they feel about the whole think? Can I trust them to do such a crime that is unholy and really mean? 3) Brutus, why don't you listen to your wife and other people when they try to help you? Portia is just looking out for your well being and I know you love her but you should really stop and smell the Roses because life is too short to waste it on killing people. Portia why would you let your husband go out of the house if he was sick? I know that he is the man and you are just a woman but when you know you are right you should stick up for yourself. |