10 Honors English/Kephart
Unit 4: Classical Drama
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Julius Caesar Act V Analysis
Directions: Answer the following questions THOROUGHLY and in complete sentences. Use the margin notes
in the text for assistance.
Scene 1
1. What is the setting?
2. What message does Octavius bring in lines 1-6?
3. What does the dialogue between Antony and Octavius in lines 16-20 reveal about their relationship?
4. What is the mood in the scene where Brutus/Cassius and the triumvirate parley? Quote specific lines
from the play to illustrate your answer.
5. Who is “another Caesar” (lines 50-55)?
6. Draw and label the opposing sides of the final battle. Which characters are on which side?
7. Why is today a significant day for Cassius? Describe the omen he outlines in lines 70-88.
8. What do Cassius and Brutus resolve to do, if they lose the battle?
Scene 2
9. Summarize this quick scene.
Scene 3
10. What happened to Cassius’s troops at this point in the battle? What happened to Brutus’s troops?
11. What does Cassius tell Titinius to do in lines 14-18? What does Cassius ask Pindarus to do while
Titinius is gone in lines 20-22?
12. What news does Pindarus bring Cassius after carrying out this errand? What does he think he sees?
13. Upon hearing this news, what request does Cassius make of Pindarus?
14. Why is it significant that Cassius dies with Caesar’s name on his lips? What else is ironic about his
death?
15. Titinius and Messala enter from the wings and do not see Cassius’s body at first. Which kind of irony
does the audience feel during their conversation?
16. What error has been made by Pindarus?
17. How does Titinius die? Record his final words.
18. To whom does Brutus attribute these two deaths?
Scene 4
19. What does Shakespeare emphasize by having each scene in this act open with alarums?
20. Lucilius impersonates Brutus in this scene. What are these young men doing, and why?
21. Why might the soldiers be unwilling to kill “a noble prisoner”?
Scene 5
22. What is Brutus’s mood in the beginning of this scene? Why might he be feeling this way?
23. Paraphrase Brutus’s monologue in lines 31-42.
24. Who finally assists Brutus? How?
25. Record Brutus’s last two lines. What is the significance of these lines?
26. Strato’s words in lines 54-57 eulogize Brutus. They also reinforce the play’s theme topic of honor.
What role did honor play in Brutus’s life?
27. How does Mark Antony react to Brutus’s death? What does he say about the kind of man Brutus was?
Quote specific lines from the play to illustrate your answer.
28. In the resolution, the last scene, why is it significant that Octavius delivers the play’s final speech?