1. Read the Following Quotes from Act I

Directions:

1. Read the following quotes from Act I.

2. Select a character to analyze. What can you learn about the character who is speaking? What can you learn about the character based on what other characters have said about them in Acts I and II so far?

3. Complete the character diagram you were handed in class by filling in the information what the quotes tell you about your character’s speech, thoughts, actions, physicality, family and origins, and what others say, do and think about him. If there is information lacking, give your best guess based on what you already know from the play.

Quotes:

Cassius: “Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (I,ii)

Caesar: “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He things too much: such men are dangerous.”(I,ii)

Antony: “When Caesar says, ‘Do this,’ it is perform’d.”(I,ii)

Brutus: “Brutus had rather be a villager; Than to repute himself a son of Rome; Under these hard conditions as this time; Is like to lay upon us.”(I,ii)

Caesar: “I rather tell thee what is to be feared; Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar. Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf…”(I,ii)

Cassius: “I have heard; Where many of the best respect in Rome, speaking of Brutus, and groaning underneath this age’s yoke; Have wished that noble Brutus had his eyes.” (I,ii)

Cassius: “Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see; Thy honorable mettle may be wrought; From that it is disposed; therefore it is meet; That noble minds keep ever with their like; For who so firm cannot be seduced?” (I,ii)

Brutus: “Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins; Remorse from power; and, to speak truth of Caesar; I have not known when his affections swayed; More than his reason.” (II,i)

Caesar: “Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me; Ne’er looked but on my back; when they shall see ; The face of Caesar, they are vanished.” (II,ii)

Brutus: “To think that or our cause or our performance; Did need an oath; when every drop of blood; That every Roman bears, and nobly bears, Is guilty of a several bastardy; If he do break the smallest particle; Of any promise that hath passed from him.” (II,i)

Brutus: “O, that we then could come by Caesar’s spirit; and not dismember Caesar! But, alas; Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends; Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods; Not hew him as a carcass fit for the hounds.”(II,i)