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Julius Caesar

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  • What does Btutus insist upon during Brutus’s and Antony’s speeches?
    He insists upon Caesar’s ambition.
  • Why should the crowd believe what Brutus has to say and respect him?
    Because of his honour.
  • The phrase ‘Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?’ is an example of what literary technique? What is its purpose here?
    Rhetorical question, which is asked to make a point in a dramatic way rather than as a real question. Provide reasons for the conspiracy
  • What does Brutus think the crowd would rather do?
    He thinks they would rather live as free men now than as slaves under Caesar.
  • How did Caesar’s actions help Rome’s finances?
    He brought many prisoners to Rome and they paid ransoms which filled Rome’s coffers.
  • The phrase ‘As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him’ is an example of what literary technique? What is its purpose here?
    This is a parallelism, which involves the use of components in a sentence which are grammatically the same. It underlines the parallelism that Brutus is an hono
  • Did Brutus love Caesar and, if so, what is his reason for killing him?
    He says he loved Caesar no less than anyone else in the assembly but he killed him because he loves Rome more.
  • How would people have lived under Caesar’s rule?
    They would have lived as slaves.
  • What adjective does he use repeatedly to describe Brutus? Why?
    He uses the adjective ‘honourable’ in order to prove Brutus wrong through the rhetorical device of syllogism and to show he is not an honourable man.
  • What did he love more than Caesar?
    He loved Rome more than Caesar.
  • Why does Antony call the crowd ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’?
    He does this to address their emotions and make them feel he is one of them.
  • What rhetorical device does he use when referring to Brutus? Why?
    He uses syllogisms to destroy Brutus’s thesis and to point out that he was not an honourable man.
  • What did Antony offer to Caesar? Why does he mention this?
    He offered the crown to Caesar three times and Caesar always refused it. He mentions this to show that Caesar was not ambitious.
  • Why does he remind the crowd about the three times the crown was offered to Caesar?
    To remind them that Caesar could notbe ambitious if he had refused the crown three times.
  • Why does he repeat the word ‘honour’ so many times?
    To highlight the fact that he is an honourable man compared to Caesar, who instead was ambitious.
  • What rhetorical device does he use twice in his speech? To what effect?
    He uses syllogisms, which is a type of deductive reasoning, in order to prove Brutus wrong and to show he is not an honourable man.
  • How did Caesar bring money to Rome?
    He brought back captives from wars and they paid ransoms.
  • Why does he pause at the end of his speech?
    He pauses as he is overwhelmed by pain.
  • What reason does Brutus give for killing Caesar?
    Caesar’s ambition is the reason why he had to be killed.
  • What two things has Antony come to do?
    He has come to bury Caesar and to speak at his funeral to convince the crowd that Caesar was not ambitious and that Brutus is not honourable.
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