Monday's Class
I. Response questions
Answer the following questions:
1. What is betrayal?
2. What omens have come true
3. What would you do if you witnessed such a scene?
3. What would you do if you witnessed such a scene?
4. What events in this act prove that it is the Climax?
II. Packet
Review packet Acts 1-3
III. Act 3 Analysis
1. What reason does Caesar give for not reading Artemidorus’s letter?
2. . What is Metellus Cimber’s petition to Caesars? What is Caesars’
response and why does he give this response? What was the propose of this petition?
3. What was each of the following characters to do at the capitol:
Trebonious, Cimber, Casca, Brutus?
4. What is Caesar’s opinion of himself? How do we know this? What does
he reference himself as? Why is this ironic?
5. What does “Et tu, Brute?” mean? How do these words relate to the theme
of friendship in the play? Why would Caesar say this?
6. Summarize Antony’s main points in his funeral speech?
7.Discuss each step of Antony’s plan to sway the plebians
8. . Summarize Antony’s soliloquy.
IV. Homework
Read Act 4 scene 3, answer corresponding packet questons