Topic - William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) [#Q21/L/WS/150725]
1. How does Brutus justify Caesar’s assassination to the Roman public?
2. What contrast is established between Brutus and Antony in their funeral speeches?
3. Why does Cassius fear Caesar’s growing popularity in Act I?
4. What does the assassination of Caesar symbolize in the political context of the play?
5. Why is the plebeians' behavior after Antony’s speech considered ironic?
6. What role does the idea of fate play in Caesar’s downfall?
7. How does Cassius’s death reflect his character arc?
8. What does the storm in Act I foreshadow thematically?
9. What significance does the triumvirate hold after Caesar’s death?
10. Why is Calpurnia’s dream critical in dramatic structure?
11. Why is Portia’s act of wounding herself significant?
12. What is the significance of Antony calling Brutus 'the noblest Roman of them all'?
13. How does Shakespeare show the manipulation of public opinion?
14. What tone does Antony adopt at the start of his funeral speech?
15. Why is the scene with Lepidus and the triumvirs important politically?
16. What makes Brutus’s final act (suicide) tragic but honorable?
17. How does Lucius serve the narrative in Brutus’s household?
18. Why does Caesar refer to himself in the third person?
19. What does the fall of Brutus suggest about moral idealism in politics?
20. Why is Titinius’s delayed entrance with the victory wreath tragic?
