https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5 Character board en-us 2021-05-24 11:05:49 UTC 2025-11-04 20:46:06 UTC hello@padlet.com scarlettcferreira https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1553316056 What he says about Caesar:
He is loyal to Caesar. "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man that ever loved in the tide of times"(Act 3, scene 1) He says that Caesar was the greatest and most noble leader he has ever known.
He says that Caesar was his friend. "He was my friend, faithful and just to me... When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept"(Act 3, scene 2)


Actions of the character/how he represents himself:

Antony is a loyal friend to Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, he flees the chaos but only to return to shake hands with the conspirators. He speaks at Caesar's funeral, and displays charisma and manipulation as a speaker. He turns the crowd against the conspirators. And with Caesar's nephew, Antony goes into battle against Brutus and Cassius.
He represents himself to be a man of the people and a loyal friend to Caesar as he wants to avenge his death. However, he plans to cheat the people out of Caesar's legacy, despite his public self-presentation as the people's champion.
He represents himself as devoted to Caesar, however he disguises his feelings when he is meeting with the conspirators after the assassination, but when he is alone with Caesar's body, he expresses his feelings. "I shall not find myself so apt to die. No place will please me so, no mean of death, as here by Caesar, and by you cut off, the choice and master spirits of this age"(Act 3, scene 1) Here here lays down his life for Caesar. He plays up an honorable sacrifice and declares that there is no better place to die than alongside Caesar.
He is resourceful and persuasive and this is evident in his speech to the audience at the funeral that turns the civilians against the conspirators. "I am no orator, as Brutus is; But as you know me all, a plain dull man, that love my friend, and that they know full well that gave me public leave to speak for him"

His personal thoughts:
-He believes that he is clever and is aware of what others think of him. He has an inflated sense of self-worth "My credit now stands on such slippery ground. That one of two bad ways you must conceit me, either a crowd or a flatterer"(Act III, scene I)
-He sees himself as the rightful heir to the throne and more worthy than Lepidus "This is a slight unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands; is it fit, the threefold world divided, he should stand one of the three to share it? (Act 4, scene 12) He tries to discredit Lepidus to serve his belief that he is the best option for King.
-He knows where his loyalty lies and despite what he says he knows he is a good speaker especially when it is of a cause for loyalty. "I am no orator, as Brutus is, but, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man that love my friend"(Act III, scene II)

]]> 2021-05-24 11:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1553316056 scarlettcferreira https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1553397384 The relationships between the characters drive the plot of the play; Antony's loyalty to Caesar, Brutus's love for Caesar and Brutus's trust of Cassius.
-Antony's loyalty to Caesar leads him to avenge his friend's death, resulting in both Cassius and Brutus's deaths.]]> 2021-05-24 12:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1553397384 scarlettcferreira https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1558094809 What she says about Caesar:
As a minor character she had no particular opinion of Caesar. As a daughter of a Roman noble it can be assumed that she had loyalty to the next Roman King, Caesar. However as Brutus's wife she might have been against Caesar. This is evident as she has the opportunity to stop the assassination by telling someone about the conspiracy but she does not, instead her concern of Caesar is based on Brutus's safety because she is concerned about what might happen to Brutus if she tells anyone about the plot
"take good note what Caesar doth, what suitors press to him"
"Has Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?/ Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?"
"O Brutus, the heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!" - she secretly wishes Brutus well and in that sense she has no regard for Caesar


Actions of the character/ how she represents herself to others:
Her actions are based on her role as Brutus's wife. She takes her role as  seriously; role of confidant and comforter. She thwarts conventional qualities of a wife and represents herself as strong and trustworthy.
"I have made can make strong proof of my constancy, giving myself a voluntary wound here in the thigh. Can I bear that with patience and not my husband's secrets"(Act 2, scene 1)- Action: She injures herself in order to test her pain tolerance and suffering without complaint to show she is strong.
-She is also represented as anxious.
"O constancy, be strong upon my side; set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue. I have a man's mind but a woman's might. How hard it is for women to keep counsel"(Act 2, scene 3) Portia is anxious about the safety of Brutus and finds it difficult to keep what she knows to herself.
-She is represented as respectable and valued. "You are my true and honorable wife"(Act 2, scene 1)


Her personal thoughts:
Despite her pride in her identity as a member of prominent Roman families, she also concedes to Roman gender expectations associating femininity with weakness and identifying with the ideal of the fearless Roman man. "Think you I am no stronger than my sex, being so father'd and so husbanded?"(Act 2, scene 3)
She also sees herself as fragile especially at the thought of Brutus and the conspiracy. "Ay me, how weak a thing the heart of a woman is"
So although she desires to be strong she cannot ignore her fragile nature.]]> 2021-05-25 15:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1558094809 scarlettcferreira https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1558893749 Actions of the character/ how he represents himself to others:
Caesar is ambitious and wants to be King and have control of Rome; especially after having returned a victorious leader from battle. Although he publicly represents himself as modest and humble, he hold secret ambitions.
"I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown-yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these coronet-and, as I told you, he put it by once: but for all that, to my thinking, he would faine have had it"(Act 1, scene 2)
In private there is a display of inexorable strength. However, he projects a public persona of invulnerable strength and great leadership- "I rather tell thee what is to be feared than what I fear; for always I am Caesar"


His personal thoughts:
Caesar is proud and sees himself as being above the common man
"Danger knows well that Caesar is more dangerous than he"(Act 2, scene 2)
"If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him, I spurn thee like a cur out of my way"(Act 3, scene 1)
He is privately hampered by various weaknesses. When Calpurnia tells Caesar about the various dreams and omens she fears his claims of fearlessness, "What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?" Initially he yields to Calpurnia's emotional offer of a way out "Call it my fear that keeps you in the house, and not your own"
-He also has a private vanity. "Caesar shall firth the things that threatened me ne'er looked but on my back. When they shall see the face of Caesar, they are vanished"(Act 2, scene 2) He does display the ambition that he conceals publicly.
He considers himself constant and reliable. "Be not fond to think that Caesar bears such rebel blood that will be thawed from the true quality with that which melteth fools"(Act 3, scene 1) 

]]> 2021-05-25 18:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1558893749 https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1564355602 What he says about Caesar:
" I would not Cassius, yet I love him well" (Act 1. scene 2), Brutus loves Caesar as a friend but he is against the ascension of Caesar to a position of a dictator. He is afraid that Caesar wants that power. He is conflicted between his friendship with Caesar and his love for Rome and its people. His love and loyalty for the people of Rome comes first before his friendship with Caesar. He admits that he has never seen Caesar using his power to dictate power but he feels that it would impossible for him to become a king and not come to scorn those who are lower in status as compared to him therefore, decides that Caesar should die in order to protect the people of Rome. He wants to "kill him in the shell" (Act 2, scene 1).

Actions of the character/how he represents himself:

Brutus is a noble man who wants nothing but the best for Rome. He is led to believe that Caesar's does not have good intentions and he fears that he will use his power to mistreat the people of Rome and act like a dictator. Therefore, he kills Caesar for the greatest benefit Rome.
 "What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman" (Act 4, scene 3). Here Brutus questions Cassius's intentions for killing Caesar and his loyalty for Rome. He then emphasises on the fact that he only agreed to kill Caesar for the people of Rome and nothing else. This proves that he is an honourable man who has good intentions for Rome and its citizens. After assassinating Caesar, he and his friends flees the city. They fear being killed by the angry people of Rome after Antony's speech. He soon discovers that Portia is dead, but he continues to go to the battle against Antony. He is able to separate his private life from his desire to make sure that the people under the hands of dictators. Despite his sorrow, he puts the people of Rome first before his feelings. "No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead. O insupportable and touching loss!" (Act 4, scene 3).


His personal thoughts:
"Be not deceived. If I have veiled my look, I turn the trouble of my countenance Merely upon myself. Vexed I am Of late with passions of some difference, Conceptions only proper to myself, Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviour. But let not therefore, my good friends, be grieved— Among which number, Cassius, be you one— Nor construe any further my neglect Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to others" (Act 1, Scene, 2).
-Brutus is in a dilemma. He talks to Cassius about his inner struggle. That is, choosing between his friend Caesar who's ambition about Rome is not known and his loyalty for his country
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind" (Act 4, Scene 3).
Brutus believes that he is an honest man. He is confident in himself and the values that define him as a character. Brutus states that he is not afraid of Cassius’s threats because he believes that his honesty and integrity make him stronger than Cassius.
Brutus believes that he is incapable of being unkind, even to his enemies therefore he would never be unkind to his friends or even mistreat them. "Judge me, you gods! Wrong I mine enemies? And if so, how should I wrong a brother? (Act 4, Scene 2). He does not perceive Caesar's murder as a wrong act or a result of jealousy but for the greater benefit of Rome and its citizens.
 ]]> 2021-05-27 07:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1564355602 lbalinbog https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1571530631 What he says about Caesar:
He does like the fact that Caesar is too powerful and that he has become godlike in the eyes of the Romans. "I was born free as Caesar, so were you; we both have fed as well, and we can both endure winter's cold as he" (Act 1,scene 2). Cassius does not consider Caesar as superior to him because they both are both humans who are capable of doing the same thongs. He believes  that a man  like Caesar is not fit to be a king or a head of a civilized world. "He had a fever when he was in Spain, and when the fit was on him, I did mark how he did shake... His coward lips did from their colour fly." (Act 1, scene 2).  He tells Brutus  that a man  like Caesar is not fit to be a king or a head of a civilized world. He explains that they raced in the Tiber river, but Caesar became weak and Cassius had to  drag him out of the water and when they were in Spain, he had a fever and a seizure therefore he should not be a king.

Actions of the character/how he represents himself:

He is Caesar's acquintance. His actions are driven by his bitterness and jealousy for Caesar's power.
He leads Brutus into believing that Caesar has become too powerful and that he will use that power to mistreat the Romans therefore he has to die before he gets the opportunity to do anything. Cassius lacks integrity and he is an opportunist. He instructs Cinna to send forged. The letters claim that Romans support Caesar's death because he is too ambitious just so he can believe that the people of Rome indeed want to see Caesar dead.. "Take this paper and lay it where Brutus may but find it; and throw this in at his window; set this up with wax upon old Brutus' statue" (Act 1, scene 3).

His personal thoughts:

He is smart and he has the ability to tell the true motives of people based on how they express themselves "He reads too much and he is a great observer" (Act 1, scene 2).
"Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat. Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself. If I know this, know all the world besides, That part of tyranny that I do bear I can shake off at pleasure." (Act 1, scene 3).
Cassius believes that he is smart and that he stronger than anything, including anything but he will not be forced into Caesar's slavery. He would rather end all of that by killing himself. This shows that he is a coward.  
He instructs Pindarus to kill him because he believes that it is an honourable thing to do and that it is his fate because he is responsible for Titinius's death.]]> 2021-05-30 12:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettcferreira/8isif42a2hmkn5t5/wish/1571530631