Where would you plot Caesar’s death on Freytag’s
Pyramid?

Julius Caesar is not the protagonist of the play.
Calpurnia
Casca Decius
Cassius Ligarius
Julius Caesar
Brutus Cimber
Antony

CAESAR
The Ides of March are come.
SOOTHSAYER
Aye, Caesar, but not gone.
ARTEMIDORUS
Hail, Caesar! Read this schedule.
DECIUS
Trebonius doth desire you to o’er-read,
At your best leisure, this his humble suit.

POPILUS ( to Cassius)
I wish your enterprise today may thrive.
CASSIUS
What enterprise, Popilus?
POPILUS (to Cassius)
Fare you well.
BRUTUS
What said Popilus Lena?
CASSIUS
He wished today our enterprise might thrive.
I fear our purpose is discoverèd.
BRUTUS
Look how to makes toward Caesar. Mark him.
Popilus speaks apart to Caesar.

METULLUS
Is there no voice more worthy than my own
To sound more sweetly in great Caesar’s ear
For the repealing of my banished brother?
BRUTUS ( kneeling)
I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar
Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may
Have an immediate freedom of repeal.
CAESAR
What, Brutus?
CASSIUS ( kneeling )
Pardon, Caesar! Caesar, pardon!
As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall
To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.

CAESAR
I could well be moved, if I were you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painting with unnumbered sparks,
They are all fire, and every one doth shine;
But there’s but one in all doth hold his place.
So in the world: ‘tis furnished well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprenhensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion; and that I am he

In your group, comment upon the irony of Caesar’s speech in the previous slide. How are his words ironic?

Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!

At the beginning of Act Three, Caesar smugly says,
“The Ides of March are come.”
The Soothsayer replies, “Ay, Caesar, but not gone.”
What role does fate play here?
Does your group think that fate was responsible for his assassination? Why or why not?

Julius Caesar is not the protagonist of the play.
Calpurnia
Casca Decius
Cassius Ligarius
Julius Caesar
Brutus Cimber
Antony

Homework:Please answer the following questions in your Google Doc, in well thought out answers of approximately 3-4 sentences:1. What three things does Antony do to convince the conspirators that he's not a threat?2. How does Brutus' sense of honour become his greatest weakness in Act 3?3. What are
Antony's true feelings toward the situation?4. Based on what you have read so far, predict what you think
Antony will do next.