By Rose, Sanat, Isaiah, and SayeshaJULIUS CAESAR ACT 3

Metellus pleases Caesar to bring back his brother who was Banished

“I could be well moved if I were as you.If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.

But I am constant as the Northern Star,Of whose true fixed and resting quality

There is no fellow in the firmament.The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks;

They are all fire, and every one doth shine;But there’s but one in all doth hold his place”

SCENE 1

“Et tu, Brute?”• Everyone kneels at Caesar’s feet, and than, they stab him

SCENE 1

The conspirators bathe their hands in Caesar’s blood They will go to the market place to convince the Plebians

of why they did this act

SCENE 1

• Antony enters and sees everyone’s bloody hands• He shakes everyone’s hands

SCENE 1

Metellus pleases Caesar to bring back his brother who was banished

Everyone kneels at Caesar’s feet they stab him The Conspirators bathe their hands in Caesar’s blood

and try to convince the Plebians why they did this Antony shakes all of the conspirator’s hands to mark that

they have done this Antony makes the conspirators believe that he is a friend

to them but later he confesses his actual feelings of remorse in a soliliquy

SCENE 1 SUMMARY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7FvgP5hO99o

Brutus and Cassius convince the crowd that killing Caesar was for the good of Rome

They claim that under Caesar’s rule, the people of Rome would have lived as slaves

The two say that Caesar was too ambitious

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more”

SCENE 2

Brutus and Cassius say that Antony had nothing to do with Julius Caesar, but they allow him to speak at Caesar’s funeral

Pleblians fall for Brutus and Cassius’ speech (this shows the fickle mindedness of the pleblians)

SCENE 2

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend

me your ears!”

SCENE 2- ANTONY’S SPEECH

o Antony tells the people that he is there to bury Caesar and not to praise him

o Antony calls the conspirators honorable men 9 times throughout the scene, until finally it starts sounding false

o Antony tells the people that they tried to give Caesar the crown three times, and he refused it three times

o The Pleblians fall for his speech

ANTONY’S SPEECH

Antony tells the people that he found Caesar’s will in his closet

When the crowd asks him to read it, he says he can’t Antony says “Tis good you know not that you are his

heirs” Antony refuses to read it a second time and says that he

cant because he fears that if he reads it, he will have wronged the honorable men

The crowd yells that the “honorable men” were traitors

ANTONY’S SPEECH

① Finally, Antony says “You will compel me then to read the will?”

② Antony goes down to wear Caesar’s body is and says “If you have tears, prepare to shed them now”

③ Antony talks about how Brutus “was Caesar’s angel”

“I am no orator, as Brutus is […] For I have neither wit, nor words, nor utterance, nor the power of speech” -Antony

ANTONY’S SPEECH

• In the will, Caesar left everyone seventy five silver coins• The crowd leaves to do mischief and Antony’s servant

says that Octavius and Lepidus are at Caesar’s house

ANTONY’S SPEECH SCENE 2

• Brutus and Cassius enter the Forum• Brutus says that he did not kill Caesar out of lack of love,

but because he was too ambitious and that he feared the romans would live as slaves under Caesar’s rule

• Brutus claims that Antony had nothing to do with the conspiracy but he allows him to speak at Caesar’s funeral

• Antony adresses the crowd, he repeats the word “honourable” and shines a bad light on Brutus and the conspirators

• He brings out Caesar’s will, who left money for all the Romans

• Antony leads with emotions and the crowd decides to kill the conspirators

SCENE 2 SUMMARY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2vTn4QC83o

• In this scene, the crowd kills an innocent man because he has the same name as one of the conspirators

• The importance of the scene is that it shows the rage of the crowd

• It also proves the fickle-mindedness of the plebians

SCENE 3

Betrayal Fickle mindedness Trust Manipulation

THEMES

THE END!