Julius Caesar Act II Graphic Organizer

Name / Character Notes / Important Quotes / Evidence of Loyalty (to whom?)
Brutus / Considers killing Caesar but has mixed feelings. Finally decides that it is the best option after he reads the fake letters. / “And therefore think him as a serpent's egg. Which hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell." / Loyal to Rome
Lucius / Works for Brutus. Confirms that tomorrow is the Ides of March and introduces the conspirators who arrive at the house. / “Madam, what should I do? Run to the Capitol, and nothing else? And so return to you, and nothing else?” “Let Antony and Caesar fall together." / Loyal to Brutus
Cassius / He fakes letters to Brutus from the people urging Brutus to act against Caesar on their behalf / “If we do meet again, we’ll smile indeed. If not, ‘tis true this painting was well made.” / Loyal to Brutus
Casca / A public figure opposed to Caesar’s rise to power. He believes, however, that Caesar is the consummate actor, lulling the populace into believing that he has no personal ambition. / "Marullus and Flavius, for putting scarves off Caesar's image, are put to silence." / Loyal to Brutus
Decius Brutus / A member of the conspiracy.
Decius convinces Caesar that Calpurnia misinterpreted her dire nightmares and that, in fact, no danger awaits him at the Senate.
Decius leads Caesar right into the hands of the conspirators. / “This dream has been interpreted all wrong. It was a good and lucky vision.” / Loyal to Brutus
Cinna / He's assigned the task of planting documents in Brutus's room. / “But win the noble Brutus to our party—“ / Loyal to Brutus
Metellus Cimber / A man who disagrees with Caesar / “O, let us have him, for his silver hairs, will purchase us a good opinion.” / Loyal to Brutus
Trebonius / A man who disagrees with Caesar / “There’s nothing to fear in him. Let’s not kill him. He’ll live and laugh at this afterward.” / Loyal to Brutus
Portia / Brutus’s wife,the daughter of a noble roman who took sides against Caesar. Portia, accustomed to being Brutus’s confidante, is upset to find him so reluctant to speak his mind when she finds him troubled.
Brutus later hears that Portia has killed herself out of grief that Antony and Octavius have become so powerful. / “I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house; Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone: Why dost thou stay?” / Loyal to Brutus
Ligarius / Ill friend of Brutus / “By all the gods that Romans bow before, I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome! Brave son, derived from honourable loins!” / Loyal to Brutus
Caesar / A conceited person, he is susceptible to flattery and blind to the plot to assassinate him.
He arrives at the Senate hoping to be crowned King. /

"Danger knows full wellThat Caesar is more dangerous than he.We are two lions littered in one day,And I the elder and more terrible..."

/ Loyal to his wife and Antony
Calpurnia / Caesar’s wife, She warns Caesar against going to the Senate on the Ides of March, since she has had terrible nightmares and heard reports of many bad omens.
Nevertheless, Caesar’s ambition ultimately causes him to disregard her advice. / “O Caesar! these things are beyond all use, And I do fear them.” / Loyal to Caesar
  1. What does it mean about Cassius’s plan that he has to mislead Brutus to make it happen?
  2. What does it mean about Brutus that he so readily believes what Cassius says?
  3. What does it mean about Antony that Brutus refuses to kill him?