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21. What does Cassius’ soliloquy at the end of this scene predict?
(a) Brutus’ will not join them (b) Caesar would quell their conspiracy
(c) Troublesome times ahead (d) None of the above.
CONTEXTUAL QUESTIONS
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. Caesar
Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,
To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,
The barren, touched in this holy chase,
Shake off their sterile curse.
Antony
I shall remembe
When Caesar says “Do this,” it is perform’d.
Caesar
Set on; and leave no ceremony out.
Soothsayer
Caesar!
li) Where does the scene take place? Why have the characters referred to in the
xxtract gone there?
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hous. “ee .. Brena. Coker a di. Bat. feasivar. +
li) What is the “holy chase"? Who is assigned to take the “holy chase"? What
is its significance?
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(iii) What instructions did Caesar give to Calpurnia earlier regarding the holy
nc Which characteristic trait of Caesar is revealed by his instructions?
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{v) According to the extract, explain the type of relationship that existed between
Caesar and Antony.
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2. Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar
What man is that?
Brutus
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March
Caesar
Set him before me; let me see his face.
Cassius
Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
(i) What is meant by “Beware the ides of March”? What is its significance in
the play, Julius Caesar? .
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reaction throw on Caesar's character? .
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(iii), What, in your opinion, is the soothsayer's motive in warning Caesar to “beware
the ides of March”? Which theme in the play is revealed through soothsayer’s
warning and Caesar's denial of it? . . < other
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Cassius,
Be not deceiv'd if { have veil’d my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself, Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself, ;
Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviours;
(i) Where are Brutus and Cassius at this time? What does Cassius observe abou;
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(ii) Why does Brutus not go along with Caesar to the games? With whom does
rv Brutus contrast himself? How? dx
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(iii) What arguments doe: its give (just before the extract) to show Caesar
not superior to Brutus? aie ©
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(iv) “There was a Brutus.” Who was this Brutus? What would have he done in Rome?
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State how Cassius was
a shrewd manipulator.
Caesar
He reads much;
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(ii) Do the earlier episodes in the play suggest that Caesar has judged this
person's character accurately? Explain briefly.
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(iii) Immediately before this speech, what type of man has Caesar said he prefers?
How is the man referred in this extract different from that?
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(iv) What personal physical weakness is revealed by Caesar in the remaining part
of this speech? What contrast is created by this revelation with the last two
lines of the extract?
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