Julius Caesar
1. Read Act IV, sc iii.
2. Film adaptation of Act IV.
3. Answer questions for Act IV sc iii.
*Tomorrow: Act IV Quiz*
- vocabulary: know the definitions for the following words:
- abject - corporal - covert - covetous - gallant - slanderous - slighted - vaunting - wrangle - wring
9.- In the first instance, Brutus believed he was behaving honorably by allowing Antony to speak to the citizens of Rome because he believed that the conspirators’ cause was justified and, therefore, could not be met with anger. In the second instance, Brutus is likely questioning his having participated in the killing of Caesar, given his vehement reaction to Cassius’s pleading with him on a briber’s behalf.
- The fact that Antony and Octavius have mounted an army against Brutus and the other conspirators, and that Portia has committed suicide, makes everything look very bleak.
- Worth noting is that while Cassius laid the foundation to involve Brutus with the conspirators via rhetoric and flattery, Brutus did not join the conspiracy until he received the supposed letter from a citizen of Rome, which had been forged by Cassius.
10. The ghost of Caesar appears in Brutus’s tent. Caesar’s ghost says he will see Brutus at Philippi, where Antony and Octavius’s armies will meet the conspirators’ armies.
11. It is possible that Caesar’s ghost is an apparition that Brutus imagines due to feelings of guilt. This idea is endorsed by the fact that Brutus does not trust his own eyes to have seen the apparition, as seen through his subtle way of asking Lucius, Varro, and Claudius (who are sleeping in his tent) if they have seen anything strange in the night.
**Deadline to write quizzes: Thursday, December 19th - you must arrange this ahead of time.**
English 11
Macbeth
1. Act II Quiz.
2. Homework: Read Act III.
3. Tomorrow: Quiz on Act III.
**Deadline to write quizzes: Thursday, December 19th - you must arrange this ahead of time.**
