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Topic: Period: 6
Julius Caesar
Date: 05/04/22
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     Main Character   Julius Caesar

Triumvirs After the death of Julius Octavius Caesar

Caesar Marcus Antonius
M. Aemilius

Senators Cicero
Publius
Popilius Lena

Conspirators against Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus

Cassius
Casca
Trebonius
Ligarious
Decius Brutus
Metellus Cimber
Cinna
A Soothsayer
Cinna, a poet
Another poet

Friends to brutus and cassius Lucilius

TItinius
Messala
Young Cato
Volumnius

Servants to Brutus Varro

Clitus
Claudius
 Statro
Lucius
Darmanius
           
     Time    44 B.C.   
           
     Place    Rome, the camp near Sardis; the plains of Philippi   
           
     Setting    The play begins on February 15, the religious feast of Lupercal
           
     Soothsayer    A soothsayer warns Caesar to “Beware the Ides Of March”  
           
     Conflict    Supporters of pompey
Supporters of Caesar
           
     Mark Antohy    Mark Anthony offered the crown to Julius Caesar three times but
he refused it.
          
     Conflict    There is some historical event that Caesar had epilepsy. In
Shakespeare’s time, this illness was known as the falling sickness.
           
     Cassius    He is jealous that people treat Caesar as a god, he thinks that he
would be better than him.
           
     Brutus and Cassius    They plan to assassinate Caesar
           
     Brutus    He loves Caesar because he is like his own father
           
     Caesar    He recognizes that Cassius is a real threat to him
         
Summary: Jealous conspirators convince Caesar’s friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar.