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Film notes – day one setting
1.
What do the streets of Rome look like upon Caesar’s triumphant return from the battle with Pompey’s sons?
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2.
What does the soothsayer tell Caesar? How does Caesar respond?
3.
Compare / Contrast Marc Antony with Caesar.
4.
What arguments does Cassius provide Brutus that portray Caesar as a less than capable ruler?
5.
Why is it important for Cassius to persuade Brutus to join the conspiracy?
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6.
Brutus is a stoic. Describe how he shows his emotions.
7.
Describe the weather as Cassius rounds up the conspirators.
8.
What does Calpurnia dream about?
9.
Where do the conspirators meet to plot Caesar’s murder? When do they meet?
10.
What does Artemidorus’s letter reveal?
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Film notes – day two
1.
Is Caesar “as constant as the Northern star”? What indicators show / disprove his constancy?
2.
Where does Caesar sit in the Senate House? How are the conspirators able to attack him?
3.
Which character says, “Et tu, Brute?—Then fall Caesar,” and what does he mean by this?
4.
Why do the conspirators wash their hands in Caesar’s blood?
5.
In his funeral speech, what does Brutus give as a reason for killing
Caesar?
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6.
How does the audience react to Brutus’s speech? What do they say?
7.
How is Antony able to turn the audience against the conspirators?
8.
How does the audience react to Antony’s speech?
9.
What does the audience’s reaction to both speeches indicate about human nature?
10.
What do the citizens do with the firebrands from Caesar’s funeral pyre?
(Also, what happens to Cinna, the poet? You may need to reread this part in the play.)
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Film notes – day three
1.
Who does Antony trust less than he trusts his horse? Why do Antony and
Octavius make a list of persons to be killed?
2.
Cassius and Brutus argue in their tent at Sardis because: a.
Cassius thinks that since he’s an older soldier, he should give orders. b.
Brutus doesn’t like Cassius for taking bribes to fill the empty Senate seats. c.
Brutus thinks Cassius withheld money from him to support the troops that are gathering to battle against Antony and Octavius. d.
Cassius is hurt that Brutus points out all of his faults.
Who seems more trustworthy as a result of these factors? Why?
3.
Where did Brutus see Caesar’s ghost? What did it say?
4.
Characterize Octavius. What does his preference for taking the right side of the battlefield—against Antony’s wishes—indicate about him?
5.
What false news regarding Titinius (one of Brutus and Cassius’s soldiers) does Cassius receive on the battlefield?
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6.
Who says, “This is my birthday,” and what happens to him/her on this day?
7.
When Brutus felt that the enemy was winning, what did he do? Why?
(This is the climax of the play.)
8.
In the end of the play, did Brutus deserve to be called “the noblest Roman of them all”? Why / why not?
9.
Compare / Contrast Brutus’s intentions with Cassius’s intentions in regards to killing Caesar.
10.
The action of the play mostly revolves around Brutus. Why isn’t the play called “Brutus’s Big Mistake”?
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