Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

• Character List

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Act I Scene I Follow up Question

• Explain about a time when you may have felt sad
  or angry when everyone else around was
  celebrating. Discuss the significance of the
  moment and how you reacted to the people around
  you.
• Loss of a game or favorite team lost
• Did not receive the part you wanted in the play
• Others being asked to a dance, party or gathering
• Altercation between other people
• Death of a relative/friend/someone close

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Essential Question 1

• When should we follow the guidance of others and
  when should we follow our conscience?

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Instructions

• As each slide comes up, you will take notes on
  the text in BLUE. Please title this section
  Julius Caesar Background Info.
• You will be responsible for this information on
  upcoming quizzes and the final.

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The Scene

• Based on a true story, this play takes
• place in Ancient Rome,
• where Julius Caesar
• has just returned in
• triumph from war.
• The crowd hails him as their new leader, but
  there are some Romans who fear he will become too
  powerful of a ruler, more like an emperor, and
  they will lose the liberties they have enjoyed as
  citizens of a free state.

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• A small group of men conspire to assassinate
  Caesar, believing they are acting to preserve the
  freedoms of the Roman Republic.

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Death of Caesar

• They surround him in the Forum,
• and stab him to death.

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• The play goes on to tell the story of what
  happens after the murder, as the conspirators
  quarrel among themselves, war erupts, and
  liberties, instead of being protected, appear to
  be lost.

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Your Task

• On the next slide, you will see the names of all
  the primary characters. Try and pick out the two
  primary leaders of the conspiracy, and the five
  other conspirators.
• Thentry to find the two female characters.
• You dont need to write anything downsimply talk
  with a partner to choose characters.

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Find two lead conspirators, five additional
conspirators, and two female characters

• Artemidorus

Brutus
Soothsayer
Casca
Lepidus
Julius Caesar
Calpurnia
Cassius
Cinna
Cicero
Lucilius
Portia
Messala
Cato
Trebonius
Decius
Flavius
Metellus Cimber
Marullus
Strato
Octavius
Titinius
Cinna, a poet
Volumnius
Pindarus
Clitus
Mark Antony
Lucius
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Essential Question 2

• What makes a person persuasive?

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Three Models of Persuasion

• Ethos (credibility)
• Buy this car because Tom Brady thinks its good
  (Using Celebrities)
• Pathos (logic)
• Buy this car due to the 52 mpg (saves on gas
  saves )
• Logos (emotion)
• Buy this car to help the starving children in
  America (tugs at your heart strings)

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Use what you know

• When reading Act I Scene ii, look for elements of
  persuasion that Cassius uses to manipulate Brutus.

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Instructions

1. As the slides describing each character come up,
   continue taking notes on the information in BLUE
   in your notebook. Head this section Characters.
2. Then, place the character names on the
   appropriate lines on your handout.

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Julius Caesar

• He is the head of the Roman state. He is a great
  soldier, and has just returned from a series of
  wars during which he defeated the sons of the
  previous Roman ruler, Pompey.
• He is popular with the crowds that stand in the
  streets to greet his triumphal return, cheering
  and clapping. Calpurnia is Caesars wife.

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Mark Antony

• He is a loyal friend and supporter of Caesar, who
  he believes will make a good ruler of Rome. He is
  appalled at the killing of the head of state, and
  although he shakes hands with the conspirators
  immediately after the murder, he vows to avenge
  Caesars death.
• He gives a funeral oration over
• Caesars dead body that stirs
• the crowd to anger and desire for
• revenge. He will be one of the
• three rulers of Rome, after
• Caesars death, and he gathers
• an army to fight the
• killers.

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Brutus

• He is a respected Roman, a man of intelligence
  and honor, who is a personal friend of Caesar,
  yet wonders whether, as a ruler, he will overstep
  his powers and become a tyrant rather than a good
  head of state.
• He is finally convinced to join the conspirators
  as their leader. As they raise their daggers to
  commit the murder, Caesar recognizes his dear
  friend and cries, in Latin, Et tu, Brute? or
  You too, Brutus? Portia is Brutus wife.

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Cassius

• Cassius is one of the leaders of the conspiracy.
  He is suspicious of Caesar from the beginning,
  gathers others into the band, and convinces
  Brutus to join with them in their plans for
  assassination.
• He and Brutus flee Rome after the killing, each
  gathers an army, and they try to conquer Mark
  Antonys army.

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Octavius and Lepidus are the other two who join
with Mark Antony after Caesars death to rule
Rome as a triumvirate.
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• Casca, Trebonious,
• Decius, Cinna
• and Metallus
• Cimber are the
• other members of
• the conspiracy,
• each of whom
• participates
• by stabbing Caesar.