Today’s lesson continued the questions from lesson 6 of Julius Caesar, which were not finished on the previous school day; Friday, December the 3rd. The questions appeared as shown below:
These questions were based on Act II part I of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar play. After being given time to discuss and answer the questions, Groups shared out the following responses;
Reread Brutus’s soliloquy near the beginning of the scene. How would you summarize his thoughts? What images recur? Does the scene cause you to admire him? In this soliloquy Brutus is thinking about what was told to him by Cassius. This can be summarized as Brutus essentially trying to decide what size to choose, and essentially convince himself that; Caesar may be fine now, and I may not have anything against him now, but who knows how he will change. Brutus uses a metaphor in a ladder. He states that; once he has climbed high enough, he will scorn the base degree, or essentially think much lower of those who are lower on the ladder than him, become less humble. And this comes from, what is most likely the main point of the soliloquy; Lines 12-13. These lines are the belief that; if Caesar were to be crowned emperor, he would change drastically in the way he acts, the way he thinks, etc. This belief repeatedly reappears throughout the entire soliloquy. And, this is the reason you can’t really admire him from this.
Where is Brutus when the scene begins? What does this coupled with the first five lines reveal about his mental state? What is revealed in line 10? Brutus is in his home at the beginning of the scene. Here it is revealed that he is actually unable to sleep, mainly because of stress. This is because he’s been contemplating accepting the offer to join the assassination plot against Caesar. As a result, he had become very stressed and this made him unable to sleep. But, in line 10 it is revealed that he has finally come to a decision; he will help assassinate Caesar.
How do the following lines describe Brutus’s state of mind at the beginning of Act II;
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
The lines above state that a dreadful act, such as in this case assassination, will bring on a period of what almost seems like a nightmare. Here it states that any act of that nature will have a similar effect. This shows that he feels as though this nightmare-like period is almost guaranteed to happen by this point.
After this we went onto the current day's lesson in which we read Act II Scene I of Julius Caesar. After this we, with our groups, started to answer the following questions in our notes before sharing;
Unfortunately however, the bell rang before responses to these questions could be shared aloud, and this the period concluded.
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