Julius Caesar

A REVIEW

• A ) Queen Elizabeth I.

• B) Mark Antony.

• C) The guy sitting on the right with a plume and paper who’s first name is William?

Who was the author?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

WROTE 37 PLAYS WROTE 37 PLAYS AND OVER 150 AND OVER 150

POEMS!POEMS!

What was the name of the theater where many of William Shakespeare’s plays were performed?

Hint:For a penny you can

stand in the open courtyard with the

other “groundlings”…

For another penny you can sit among the richer

folk…and not worry about the

rude and noisy commoners.

Hints: • It was located on the banks of the Thames River.

• It was round in shape.

• It was called…

HOT LITERARY CONCEPT• DID WILLIAM

SHAKESPEARE EVER MEET JULIUS CAESAR?

• NO!!!

• NO?

• BUT WHY?

COOL FACTS:

•JULIUS CAESAR WAS ASSASSINATED IN 44 B.C.

COOL FACTS:•WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

•Was born in 1564 A.D.

LITERARY LOGIC:•They could not

have met.

VOCABULARY• WHAT IS

ANACHRONISM ?

ANACHRONISM• WHEN A PERSON OR

THING DOES NOT BELONG IN TIME

WITH OTHER PEOPLE OR THINGS.

EXAMPLEEXAMPLE• AN AIRPLANE IN A AN AIRPLANE IN A

STORY ABOUT STORY ABOUT COLUMBUSCOLUMBUS.

EXAMPLEEXAMPLE• A MICROWAVE A MICROWAVE

OVEN IN A COVERED OVEN IN A COVERED WAGON.WAGON.

EXAMPLEEXAMPLE•William Shakespeare and Julius Caesar meeting?

• ANACHRONISMANACHRONISM

VOCABULARY•Pathetic Fallacy?

VOCABULARY•Pathetic Fallacy

• Is when nature imitates the

action in literature– it can foreshadow!

VOCABULARY

SymbolismPun

Conflict!

VOCABULARY

Character Concept---The Crowd is a

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ACT ONESCENE ONE

I.i

Pompey and Julius Caesar

fight to the deathfight to the death!

Pompey was a Roman general.

Caesar was a Roman general.

Many Romans die in their war.

Pompey is dead.

The people foolishly celebrate the civil war and

are poked fun at by two TRIBUNES or government

officials.

What would we do if two American generals

fought?

I.ii

Brutus and Cassius are not happy with Caesar.

They fear that they would become slaves to a tyrant.

Meanwhile

Antony offers Caesar a crown three times.

Caesar doesn’t accept the crown. He becomes ill.

I.iii

VOCABULARY•WHAT IS ANOMEN ?

AN OMEN•A sign or symbol of what will happen:

An Omen ForeshadowsForeshadows.

HOT LITERARY CONCEPT

•To ForeshadowForeshadow Foreshadowing

Foreshadows

Foreshadows

•Comets, •Storms,

•Indigestion...

EXAMPLES

An Omen for Caesar

Caesar is warned of the future by a blind seer, fortune teller, or

prophet.

Beware the Ides of March!

VOCABULARY• WHAT IS A

CONSPIRATOR ?

A CONSPIRATOR•Someone of a group Someone of a group who plans harm to who plans harm to another.another.

That Night:

Brutus meets the conspirators on a stormy and ominous

night.

Will Brutus join them?

The storm is an omen of bad events!

II.i

Brutus considers what he should do.

His wife is concerned.

Will Brutus tell her?

II.ii

VOCABULARY•WHAT IS A

Soliloquy ?

Soliloquy

•When a character has a When a character has a long speech and is long speech and is

THINKING THINKING OUT LOUD.OUT LOUD.

Brutus has a soliloquy about Tyranny.

VOCABULARY•WHAT IS A

TYRANT ?

TYRANT•When a person When a person

hashas ABSOLUTE ABSOLUTE

POWER.POWER.

Epitaph on a Tyrant

a poem byW.H. Auden

Perfection of a kind, was what he was after,

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;

He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,

And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

“Epitaph on a Tyrant”is a poem by W.H.

Auden.

Will Brutus join the conspirators?

Brutus finally decides that too much power in

one person is bad…

Think About It!•From his poem, “Epitaph on a Tyrant,” does… W.H. Auden feel the same way as Brutus?

Perfection of a kind, was what he was after,

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;

He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,

And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

“Epitaph on a Tyrant”is a poem by W.H.

Auden.

Thought it through!• “When he laughed, respectable

senators burst with laughter,/And when he cried the little children died in the streets,” the irony in the last two lines of his poem suggest that W.H. Auden would agree.

II.iii

The Morning of March Fifteenth:

(The Ides of March?)

Calpurnia warns CaesarCassius tempts Caesar.

HOT LITERARY CONCEPT

•Hubris •Too much pride...•Being self centered…

•Being overconfident...overconfident...

•Hubris •Too much pride...•Being self centered…

•Being overconfident...overconfident...

HOT LITERARY RESULT

•Caesar’s Hubris, or pride, makes up his mind.

Calpurnia weeps as Caesar

ignores the warnings.

Caesar ignores his wife, the storm, the omens,

and Soothsayer.

Caesar is Assassinated!

Antony swears

REVENGE!

Brutus goes to the People.

Brutus speech turns the people AWAY from Antony.

Antony goes to the people.

Antony’s speech turns the people away from Brutus.

Antony Defeats Brutus…

who falls on his own sword (ouch!)

rather than become a slave or prisoner.

Antony Honors Brutus.

“This was the nobelest Roman of them all….”