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| "Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl. I meddle with no tradesman's matters nor women's matter, but withal I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them..." |
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COBBLER
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| "What conquest brings he [Caesar] home?/ what tributaries follow him to Rome/ to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? [...] Pray to the gods to intermit the plague/ that needs must light on this ingratitude." |
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MURELLUS
A rant about how Caesar should not be honored because he did not capture any land but instead defeated Pompey. He also says the Romans are disloyal for first supporting Pompey then turning to support Caesar once Pompey was gone. |
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| "These feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing will make him fly and ordinary pitch." |
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FLAVIUS
By clipping Caesar's wings, he will be brought down to the level of the commonors to be more relatable rather than looking down upon them |
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| "No Cassius, for the eye sees not itself but by reflection, by some other things." |
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BRUTUS
Cassius thinks that he knows Brutus better than Brutus knows himself because Cassius is telling Brutus that he needs a reflection (someone else's opinion) to be able to tell who he really is. Brutus is also saying that he is too humble, searching for flattery. |
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| "When Caesar says 'Do this' it is performed." |
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| "I was born as free as Caesar, so were you. / We both have fed as well, and we can both / endure the winter's cold as well as he" |
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CASCA
Something Casca couldn't understand because it was either in Greek or he couldn't grasp it. |
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| "We have the falling sickness" |
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CASSIUS
Caesar's falling sickness is Epilepsy and everyone else's falling sickness is having to literally fall or bow down to Caesar. |
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| "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous." |
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CAESAR
Cassius is hungry for power and something new throughout the play which is dangerous because it can be threataning to Caesar. Cassius doesn't stop to accept the way things are; he wants a change. |
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| "Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights." |
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CAESAR
Caesar is suspicious that skinny men are hungry for power or conspiracy while fat men are already satisfied. |
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| "If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius, he (Caesar), shall not humor me." |
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CASSIUS
He is saying that Brutus is too timid to form the conspiracy. Brutus would never last in Cassus' shoes, only Cassius can handle being himself. |
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| "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." |
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Cassius
Fate does not determine the course of our lives, only we do. It's our choice to be followers and the outcome can't be blamed on anyone but ourselves even though we are more comfortable blaming fate. |
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| Well, Brutus, thou art noble. Yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed." |
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CASSIUS
Cassius is sure that he can persuade Brutus to joing the conspiracy even though he is honorable. This is when he is throwing the rocks in the window. |
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| "Either there is a civil strife in Heaven, / or else the world, too saucy with the gods, / Incenses them to send destruction." |
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CASCA
Since thunder and lightning occur earlier in the scene, it indicates Zeus is angry which foreshadows danger looming ahead. |
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| "He [Brutus] sits high in all the people's hearts / And that which would appear offence in us / his countenance, like richest alchemy, / will change to virtue and to worthiness." |
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CASCA
He can turn people's hate into gratification, just like with alchemy you can turn one thing into another. |
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| "And therefore I think of him as a serpent's egg / which hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischevious, and kill him in the shell." |
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BRUTUS
Brutus is afraid that if Caesar becomes king he will become corrupt so he must stop it before it happens by killing Caesar. |
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| Dwell I but in the suburbs / of your good pleasure? If it be no more, / Portia is Brutus's Harlot, not his wife." |
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PORTIA
Portia feels like a Harlot because Brutus won't tell her anything but still calls her his wife. To show that she can handle the truth she cuts her thigh to show how she has "strong blood" and can handle the truth. |
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| "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." |
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CAESAR
Cowards never live because they die metaphorically by giving up; the valiant refers to the courageous who rise up to a challenge and truly die once. |
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| "Let's kill him boldly but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass for the hounds." |
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BRUTUS
They will kill Caesar respectfully as a favor to Rome. The will not kill for murder but for service. |
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| "And for Mark Antony, think not of him; / for he can do no more than Caesar's arm / when Caesar's head is off." |
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BRUTUS
Antony will be useless and lacking power without Caesar.
Irony: Antony supposedly lacked power but he eventually created the triumvirate that would soon lead Rome. |
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| "When beggars die, there are no comets seen. / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." |
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CALPURNIA
Calpurnia is trying to get Caeser to stay home because omens are not sent to just ordinary people and danger must be lurking. |
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| "Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber" |
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| "If you read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live; If not, the fates with traitors do contrive." |
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ARTEMIDORUS
Caesar could have prevented his own death. |
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| "O Caesar, read mine first, for mine's a suit that touches Caesara nearer. Read it, great Caesar." |
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ARTEMIDORUS
this shows how urgent the note is since it will tell Caesar that he is about to be killed. |
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| "If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; but I am as constant as the northern star." |
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CAESAR
He is claiming to be constant and unable to be overtaken |
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| "Danger knows full well / that Caesar is more dangerous than he: / we are two lions litter'd in one day. / And I the elder and more terrible: / and Caesar shall go forth." |
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CAESAR
caesar fears that he will be seen as a coward if he stays home so he says that he must go to the senate no matter what. |
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| "This dream is all amiss interpreted; / it was a vision fair and fortuneate; / your statue spouting blood in many pipes, / in which so many smiling Romans bathed, / signifies that from you great Rome shall suck / reviving blood, and that great men shall press / for tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance / this by calpurnia's dream is signified." |
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DECIUS
decius changes the interpretation of calpurnias dream so it sounds like Caesar should indeed go to the senate. |
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| "And then is death a benefit: / so are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged / his time of fearing death." |
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BRUTUS
brutus states that they are being friends to brutus by shortening his time of fearing death by killing him, thus doing him a favor. |
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| "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets." |
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CAESAR
translates to and you brutus. Caesar sees this as betrayal after he treated brutus as an equal |
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| "I know not what may fall. I like it not." |
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CASSIUS
Cassus is stating that he is not sure of the outcome of the speeches to follow Caesar's murder. |
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| "O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquest, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well." |
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ANTONY
antony pretends to agree with the conspirators so he can give his speech and mourn caesar's death. |
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| "Cry, 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war." |
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ANTONY
Antony's plans to avenge Caesar's death. |
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| "Sweet friends, let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny" |
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ANTONY
he says this before his funeral speech so the commoners don't get the wrong idea. |
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"when the poor have cried, caesar hath wept; / ambition should be made of sterner stuff. / yet brutus says he was ambitious, / and brutus is an honorable man."
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| "This was the most unkindest cut of all." |
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| "Tear him for his bad verses! Tear him for his bad verses!" |
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CITIZEN
about cinna the poet; ironic because the citizen is thinking of the wrong cinna. it also shows that they are so angry they will kill anyone to get back at the conspirators. |
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Term
| “He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him. / But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar’s house. / Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine / How to cut off some charge in legacies.” |
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| “of your philosophy you make no use / if you give place to accidental evils.” |
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CASSIUS
explains why portia killed herself; brutus is dead. She killed herself for no reason; accidental evil. |
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| “Remember March; the ides of March remember. / Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake?” |
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BRUTUS
shows that they killed caesar for a reason
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| “To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.” |
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CAESAR'S GHOST
foreshadowing brutus's death; the only way they can see each other is if brutus is also dead. |
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| "There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries" |
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BRUTUS
If you don't take an opporotunity when it is presented, someone else will and you will live in regret. |
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