NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Literature Reader Chapter 14 Julius Caesar

Caesar shall forth; the things that threaten’d me
Ne'er look'd on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished.

(a) Where is Caesar planning to go?

(b) What are the 'things' that threaten him?

(c) What does the word 'vanished' mean?

Why did Cassius tell Brutus not to allow Antony to speak on Caesar's funeral?

Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:
          Good countrymen, let me depart alone,
          And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:
(i) Identify the speaker of the above lines.
(ii) When and where were the above lines spoken?
(iii) Bring out the irony in the above extract.

Now let it work. Mischief thou art afoot.
Take thou what course thou wilt!
Antony seeks justice by getting the mob to kill the conspirators. But to correct a wrong, one cannot commit another wrong. Write a speech for the school assembly on ‒ the ends do not justify the means. 

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
Caesar shall forth; the things that threaten'd me
Ne'er look'd on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished.
(a) Where is Caesar planning to go?
(b) What are the 'things' that threaten him?
(c) What does the word 'vanished' mean?

Why did Cassius tell Brutus not to allow Antony to speak on Caesar's funeral?

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?

Why does Calpurnia try to stop Caesar from going to the senate?

'Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more.'

Brutus says this as he justifies to the Romans why Caesar was assassinated by them. Do you agree with Brutus? Justify your answer in 120‒150 words by giving examples from the play.

What values does Brutus display as he says this line to the Romans?

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?