The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Key Line Analysis
Directions:
1. What does it mean? Explain what the quotation means.
2. What does it matter? Explain what this quotation shows about the characters and the plot.
3. ALL ANSWERS MUST BE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1.
“I shall remember.
When Caesar says “Do this”, it is performed.”
Antony (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 9-10)
2.
“What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.”
Brutus (Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 167-170)
3. “O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts;”
Casca (Act 1, Scene 3, Line 157)
4. “And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg
Which hatched, would as his kind grow mischeivious,
And kill him in his shell.”
Brutus (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 33-35)
5. “I think it not meet
Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,
Should outlive Caesar. We shall find of him
A shrewd contriver….
Let Antony and Caesar fall together.”
Cassius (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 155-161)
6. “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar (Act 2, Scene 2, Line 32-34)
7. . “Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar.”
Caesar (Act 3, Scene 1, Line 77)
8. “You know not what you do; do not consent
That Antony speak in his funeral.
Know you how much the people may be moved
By that which he will utter?”
Cassius (Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 232-234)
9. “I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall
please my country to need my death.”
Brutus (Act 3, Scene 2, Line 46-48)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Key Line Analysis
10. “Have patience gentle friends, I must not read it….
‘Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;
For if you should, O what would come of it?”
Antony (Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 142-148)
11. “I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius
Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.”
Servant (Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 270-271)
12. “Impatient of my absence,
And grief that young Octavious with Mark Antony
Have made themselves so strong….with this she fell distract,
And (her attendants absent) swallowed fire.”
Brutus (Act 4, Scene 3, Lines 150-154)
13. .”This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He, only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.”
Antony (Act 5, Scene 5, Line 68-72).