11."Et tu, Brute? – Then fall Caesar!" (III, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
12."Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" (III, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
13."....How many ages hence
Shall this lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn, and accents yet unknown" (III, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
14."O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth." (III, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
15."Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war." (III, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
16."Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." (III, ii) ________ is speaking to __________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
17."There is tears for his love; joy for his fortunes;
honour for his valor; and death for his ambition." (III, ii) _____________ is speaking to ____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
18."Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,
the evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;" (III, ii)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
19."Yet Brutus says he was ambitious
And Brutus is an honorable man." (III, ii) _____________ is speaking to ______________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
20."You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;" (III, ii) ___________ is speaking to ______________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
21."This was the unkindest cut of all." (III, ii) ______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
22."Mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt!" (III, ii) ______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
23."O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end,
And then the end is known." (V, i) ______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
24."This day I breathed first: time is come around,
And where I did begin, there shall I end;
My life is run his compass." (V, iii) ______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
25."O Julius Caesar thou art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails." (V, iii) ______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
26."This was the noblest Roman of them all." (V, v) ______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
ADVANCED ENGLISH 3-4
Ms. LeCren, La Jolla High School Name:________________________________________
Period:____ Date:______________________________
Quotations from Julius Caesar
Directions: Identify the speaker, to whom s/he is speaking, and the significance of the line.
1. "For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honour more than I fear death." (I, ii)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
2.
"Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about..." (I, ii)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
3.
"Men at some time are masters of their fate:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves, that we are underlings." (I, ii)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
4.
"Let me have men about me that are fat.
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look:
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous." (I, ii) ______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
5. "...it was Greek to me." (I, ii)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
6. "But 'tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder..." (II, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
7.
"Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream...." (II, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
8.
"Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds..." (II, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
9.
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I have yet heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come." (II, ii)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________
10."I could be well moved, if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star," (III, i)
______________ is speaking to _____________
What's the point?______________________________________________________________________