English 2201
Julius Caesar
Quotations Worksheet
There are two (2) quotations from each act given below. Read the quotations and find it in
your Julius Caesar text. Then answer the questions that follow the quotation.
NOTE: the references given below are as follows: (Act, Scene, Line)
Quotation
1.
“Such men as he be never at heart’s ease
While they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous.”
(1,2,220-222)
Questions
(may be answered on this page)
a) Who is the speaker?
b) To whom is he speaking?
c) Who is he talking about?
2.
“Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see
Thy honorable metal may be wrought
From that it is disposed” (1,2,319-321)
a) Who is the speaker?
b) What is he saying about Brutus?
3.
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen.
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death
of princes.” (2,2, 32-33)
a) Who is the speaker?
b) When is this said?
4.
5.
“She dreamt to-night she saw a statue
Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,
Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans
Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it”
(2,2,81-84)
a) Who is the speaker?
“Stoop, Romans, stoop,
And let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood
Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:
Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,
And, waving our red weapons o’er our heads,
Let’s all cry “Peace, freedom, and liberty.”
(3,1,115-120)
a) Who is the speaker?
b) We know that this dream hints at
future events. What literary device is
this?
b) What have these “Romans” just
done?
English 2201
Julius Caesar
Quotations Worksheet
6.
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
a) Who is the speaker?
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times. Ligarius,
b) What is one emotion that the
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
speaker is feeling?
(3,1,274-278)
7.
“ There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which talked at the flood leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.” (4, 3,245-251)
a) Who is the speaker?
“Ha! Who comes there?
I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition.
It comes upon me.” (4,3,311-314)
a) Who is the speaker?
“O Julius Caesar, thou art might yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails.” (5,3,101-103)
a) Who is the speaker?
8.
9.
b) To whom is he speaking?
c) What decision is being made when
this speech is said?
b) What is the “monstrous
apparition” being spoken about?
b) Name one person who has just
killed before this was spoken.
10. “Caesar, now be still:
I kill’d not thee with half so good a will.”
(5,5,56-57)
a) Who is the speaker?
b) What does he do after he says
these words?