Julius Caesar Act II Graphic Organizer
Name
Brutus
Lucius
Cassius
Casca
Decius Brutus
Cinna
Metellus
Cimber
Character Notes
Considers killing Caesar but has mixed feelings.
Finally decides that it is the best option after he
reads the fake letters.
Works for Brutus. Confirms that tomorrow is the
Ides of March and introduces the conspirators who
arrive at the house.
He fakes letters to Brutus from the
people urging Brutus to act against
Caesar on their behalf
A public figure opposed to Caesar’s
rise to power. He believes, however,
that Caesar is the consummate
actor, lulling the populace into
believing that he has no personal
ambition.
A member of the conspiracy.
Decius convinces Caesar that
Calpurnia misinterpreted her dire
nightmares and that, in fact, no
danger awaits him at the Senate.
Decius leads Caesar right into the
hands of the conspirators.
He's assigned the task of planting documents in
Brutus's room.
A man who disagrees with Caesar
Important Quotes
“And therefore think him as a
serpent's egg. Which hatched,
would as his kind grow
mischievous,
And kill him in the shell."
“Madam, what should I do? Run
to the Capitol, and nothing else?
And so return to you, and nothing
else?” “Let Antony and Caesar fall
together."
“If we do meet again, we’ll smile
indeed. If not, ‘tis true this
painting was well made.”
"Marullus and Flavius, for putting
scarves off Caesar's image, are
put to silence."
Evidence of Loyalty (to whom?)
Loyal to Rome
“This dream has been interpreted
all wrong. It was a good and lucky
vision.”
Loyal to Brutus
“But win the noble Brutus to our
party—“
“O, let us have him, for his
Loyal to Brutus
silver hairs, will purchase us a
Loyal to Brutus
Loyal to Brutus
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good opinion.”
Trebonius
A man who disagrees with Caesar
Portia
Brutus’s wife, the daughter of a
noble roman who took sides against
Caesar. Portia, accustomed to being
Brutus’s confidante, is upset to find
him so reluctant to speak his mind
when she finds him troubled.
Brutus later hears that Portia has
killed herself out of grief that
Antony and Octavius have become so
powerful.
Ligarius
Ill friend of Brutus
Caesar
A conceited person, he is
susceptible to flattery and blind to
the plot to assassinate him.
He arrives at the Senate hoping to
be crowned King.
Calpurnia
Caesar’s wife, She warns Caesar
against going to the Senate on the
Ides of March, since she has had
terrible nightmares and heard
reports of many bad omens.
Nevertheless, Caesar’s ambition
ultimately causes him to disregard
her advice.
“There’s nothing to fear in him.
Let’s not kill him. He’ll live and
laugh at this afterward.”
“I prithee, boy, run to the senatehouse; Stay not to answer me, but
get thee gone: Why dost thou
stay?”
Loyal to Brutus
“By all the gods that Romans bow
before, I here discard my
sickness! Soul of Rome! Brave
son, derived from honourable
loins!”
Loyal to Brutus
"Danger knows full well
That Caesar is more dangerous
than he. We are two lions littered
in one day, And I the elder and
more terrible..."
“O Caesar! these things are
beyond all use, And I do fear
them.”
Loyal to Brutus
Loyal to his wife and Antony
Loyal to Caesar
1. What does it mean about Cassius’s plan that he has to mislead Brutus to make it happen?
2. What does it mean about Brutus that he so readily believes what Cassius says?
3. What does it mean about Antony that Brutus refuses to kill him?