Julius Caesar Act I Study Guide

PART I  Explain who each character is according to his/her appearance in
Act I

Flavius
Marullus 
Cobbler                      
Antony
Soothsayer     
Cassius
Pompey                      
Brutus
Caesar                        
Cicero
Casca                          
Cinna
Calphurnia      

PART II  List, in order, what you consider to be the five most important developments in Act I.

PART III  Indicate who expressed each of the following quotes from Act I and indicate the apparent significance of each quote.

  1.  Knew you not Pompey?

2.  Beware the Ides of March.

3. …he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

 4.  The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves…

5.  Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed
That he is grown so great?

6.  Let me have men about me that are fat…

7.  But for my own part, t was Greek to me.

8.  No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I
And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.