Julius Caesar - Movie Study Guide

Julius Caesar - movie study guide

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The questions follow the order of the Marlon Brandon movie version as much as possible, but the acts and scenes are listed so you can use the text to look up answers as well.

Act I, Scene i: 1. What is the setting of the story (i.e. time, place, and mood)?

2. Explain why the workingmen are celebrating in the first scene. Why does Marullus reproach them?

Scene ii: 3. What warning does the soothsayer give Caesar, and what is Caesar’s response?

4. Explain what Cassius wants to convince Brutus of in scene 2. What reason does he give?

5. Name a physical condition of Caesar's and one of its symptoms.

6. Why does Caesar, in scene 2, think Cassius is dangerous? What qualities disturb him? What literary term is this an example of and how?

7. Explain why the crowd shouts three times.

8. Cassius tells Brutus several anecdotes about Caesar in Scene ii. What is Cassius implying through these stories? What do you think of the techniques Cassius uses to persuade Brutus to turn against Caesar? Do you see any serious flaws in his reasoning?

Scene iii: 9. According to Casca, what do the senators plan to do on the ides of March?

10. Why task does Cassius give Cinna and why?

11. Why do the conspirators want to win Brutus over to their side?

ACT II: 12. Who said the following quotation and why? "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg,/ Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, /And kill him in the shell." Julius Caesar - movie study guide

13. Who said the following quotation and why? ". . . If it be no more, /Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife."

14. Who said the following quotation and why? "Let's carve him as a dish for the gods, /Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds."

15. What was the advice of the augurers and why did they give it?

16. Who said the following quotation and why?". . . Danger knows full well / That Caesar is more dangerous than he."

17. How else does Caesar show hubris in the scene where his wife tries to convince him not to go to the senate? (Give at least two examples.)

18. Describe Calpurnia's dream and its significance.

19. Who convinces Caesar to go to the Senate House and how?

Scene iii - iv: 20. Artemidorus reads a letter he wrote. Summarize the letter.

Act III scene I 1. Why does Trebonius need to speak to Antony?

2. Who is last person to stab Caesar? Why is this significant?

3. Why do Cassius and Brutus say they actually did Caesar a favor by killing him?

4. What does Mark Antony first ask of the conspirators?

5. What does Mark Antony ask of the conspirators that Brutus and Cassius disagree about? Why do Brutus and Cassius think as they do?

6. What does Mark Antony predict will happen now that Caesar is dead?