Julius Caesar and Antony reveal something about their character in their words and actions. We also learn about them from what other people say. Can you pick out the words that describe them from the box given below? Also, pick outlines from the play to illustrate your choice.
superstitious, arrogant, loyal, clever
overconfident, manipulative, good orator, ambitious
brave, great conqueror, generous, fearless
loves flattery, firm, shrewd, crafty
Person - Extract from play - What it tells us about the character
Julius -
Caesar - 1. the things that threaten’d me Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanished - 1. arrogant
2. ___________________________
3. ___________________________
4. ___________________________
5. ___________________________
6. ___________________________
Mark Antony
1.___________________________
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1. Loyal
2. ___________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________
3. ___________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________
4. ___________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________
5.___________________________ ____________________________
What it tells us about the character
overconfident
Extract from play
…danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he! We are two lions litter’d in one day…
What it tells us about the character
brave
Extract from play : Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
What it tells us about the character
great conqueror
Extract from play
..0 mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?….
What it tells us about the character
generous
Extract from play
To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
What it tells us about the character
firm
What it tells us about the character
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the northern star, ….
Words for Antony
What it tells us about the character
Loyal
Extract from play
1. Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death, To see thy Antony making his peace.
2. Thou art the ruins of the noblest man. That ever lived in the tide of times.
What it tells us about the character
manipulate
Extract from play
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
What it tells us about the character
good orator
Extract from play
1. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to buy Caesar, not to praise him.
2. Now mark him, he begins again to speak.
3. To stir men’s blond. I only speak right on I tell you that which you yourselves do know,.. Cassius: You know not what you do: do not consent, that Antony speak in his funeral: