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Julius Caesar
Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:
'The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.'
(a) Who is the speaker? Who are 'you'?
(b) How did Caesar pay for being ambitious?
(c) What argument did the speaker give to show that Brutus was wrong in his judgement of Caesar?
(a) The speaker is Antony. The citizens of Rome are referred to as ‘You’.
(b) Caesar had to lose his life for being ambitious. The conspirators assassinated him.
(c) The speaker, Antony reminds the Roman citizens of the good things that Caesar had done for the country and the people to prove that Brutus was wrong in his judgement of Caesar. Antony reminded them of what Caesar did to control the financial situation of the people. Also, how he had wept when the poor have cried. Antony also mentioned that Caesar refused when he presented the crown to Caesar. To assure them completely, he showed the Caesar's will to them, in which he had granted every Roman citizen seventy-five drachmas and land.
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
'Shall Caesar send a lie?
Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,
To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?
Decius, go and tell them Caesar will not come’.
(a) Why has Decius come to Caesar’s place?
(b) What message does Caesar give him?
(c) Who are the ‘Graybeards’ referred to here?
How does Brutus convince the Romans that Caesar deserved his death?
How did Caesar make the Romans his heirs?
Answer the following in about 120 words:
How was Mark Antony successful in setting mischief afoot?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
‘Shall Caesar send a lie?
Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,
To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?
Decius, go and tell them Caesar will not come’.
(a) Why has Decius come to Caesar’s place?
(b) What message does Caesar give him?
(c) Who are the ‘graybeards’ referred to here?
How does Brutus convince the Romans that Caesar deserved his death?
They that have done this deed are honorable:
What private grief’s they have, alas, I know not,
That made them do it'……………….
(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) What deed have 'they' done?
(c) What does the word, 'grief’s' mean?
Why does Brutus kill Caesar?
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