Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter <Blank verse >1st letter of each line is capitalized. Most people speak.
Rhyme > noble fanciful/scene ending
Prose > normal language. Commoners, ignoble.
Scansion > syntax
Iambic (soft/loud)
10 syllables = 5 feet
2 syllables = 1 foot
Shall I | compare | thee to | a sum|mers day?
You block | you stone | you worse | than sense|less things!
Word Inversion
I ate the sandwich.
The sandwich I ate.
The sandwich ate I.
Ate the sandwich I.
I the sandwich ate.
Omissions (contractions)
�Tis = this it is
Ope = open
O�er = over
Gi� = give
Ne�er = never
I� = in
E�er = ever
Ere = before
Oft = often
A� = he
E�en = even
1st triumvirate � 3 rulers of the Roman world.
Julius Caesar � supported by plebeians
Pompey - patricians
Crassius
44-45 BC
Feast of the Leporcal � February 15th
Romulus + Remus = raised by wolves.
Republic > representative government
Pun � play on words
Mending souls
-fixing shoes
-beating him
Commoners
-support Pompay
-now they support Caesar
Icarus � feathers plucked from Caesars wing (over reaching) ambition.
March 15 - ides of March
February 15 � Lupercal
Dreamers = imagination
Cassius
-schemer
-starts conspiracy
-intelligent
-flatters
-duplicitous
Brutus
-noble
-honorable
-�loves honor more than he fears death�
-patriot
Caesar is offered the crown by Antony 3xs.
Superstition/Omens
1. Raining fire -> Casca � supernatural reason for the storm = the gods are angry.
2. Slaves left hand on fire yet he is unburned.
3. Lion does not attack Casca
4. Women see fire-men walking about
5. Owl at noon
Fat = content
Force vs. Imagination = violence vs. new solutions
Theme: Men may construe things, after their fashion, clean fro the purpose of the things themselves.
Cassius compares the storm to Caesar.
Image Pattern
Tripartite Man
� Head - intellect/reason
� Heart � love/passion
� Hand/spleen � violent passion
Force vs. Imagination
Archetype � universal symbol
Court World (tragedy)
� Society
� Normal everyday life
� Responsibility
� Male dominated
� Rational/logical
� Vertical power hierarchy
Green world (comedy)
� Nature
� Vacation world
� Women dominated
� Imagination
� Non violent
Logical fallacy
Non sequitar
Decious Brutus � will flatter Caesar so he will go to the Capitol.
Portia � stabs herself in the thigh to prove she can keep a secret.
Calpurnia dreams Caesar has been murdered (fountain spouting blood)
-lioness gives birth in the street
-dead walks from graves
-drizzles blood
-ghosts shriek and squeal in streets.
Beast has no heart.
Act
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
a. Casca 1st to stab
b. Conspirators get close to Caesar by asking for Publius Cimbers re enfranchisement.
i. Antony gets to speak at Caesars funeral.
ii. Bringing Caesars body to the market place.
iii. Brutus will speak first
iv. Antony cannot say anything bad about the conspirators only good of Caesar.
2nd Triumuerate
� Antony
o Lepidus -> foolish but rich
� Octavius (decides who must die)
Camp near Sardis -> first meeting between Brutus and Cassius since March 15th.
Act 3
Climax
Act 4
Falling Action
� Brutus & Cassius had to leave Rome
� Made an army
� Fight against the 2nd triumuerate
� Antonym, lepidus, octavius
-rid themselves of opposition
-Lepidus brother will die
-antonys nephew will die
-Antony compared Lepidus to a donkey.
Problem 1
1. Brutus pubically denounces Lucius Pella for taking bribes from Sardians
a. Cassius had writer letters telling Brutus to let Pella be.
2. Cassius has been selling military offices to raise money.
� Brutus asks Cassius for money to pay soldiers and Cassius denies.
� Portia commits suicide by swallowing hot coals.
Brutus�s Philosophy
Stoicism
� Bad things do not happen to good people.
� Not showing emotion
� Continuing to live life even if things don�t go well.
Octavius �> Brutus right
Antony �> Cassius left
Stichomythia � witty banter where 2nd speaker picks up where the last left off
Cassius � Epicurean -> omens/warnings of future do not exist.
Eagles � strength birds of prey
Philippi � Ravens, Crows (scavengers -> death), Kites
When Brutus sees Caesars ghost again in Philippi he knows that it is his hour to die.