Block, 1/23 - Let's Meet As a Senate Today

• P&P

• Discuss J1

• Continue Act 2 and begin keeping notes for J2

J2 - Julius Caesar (Act 2)
1. Explain the basic outline of Brutus’ argument for why “It must be by his [Caesar’s] death” (lines 10-34).
2. What is the significance of the serpent imagery in the same passage?
3. Explain Brutus’ soliloquy that begins, “Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar / I have not slept” (2.1).
4. How is “the conspiracy” (the conspirators) “To mask [its] monstrous visage” and why?
5. What is the disagreement over Cicero? (Who claims what about him?)
6. What is the disagreement over Mark Antony? (Who claims what about him?)
7. How does Brutus want everyone to think of their killing of Caesar?
8. Compare and contrast Portia’s dialogue with Brutus and Calpurnia’s with Caesar. (Feel free to make a chart/Venn diagram to keep it short)