a. Caesar's servant is speaking.
b. Caesar's servant is speaking to Caesar.
c. Caesar, a few moments ago, asked the servant to meet with the augurers. Back in those days, if a dead bull contained no heart, it was a bad sign/omen.
d. Caesar denies the omen and decides to go anyway. He decides that the 'gods' have done this in the shame of cowardice.
"Besides, it were a mock/ Apt to be rendered, for someone to say/ "Break up the Senate till another time,/ When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams." (II.ii.101-104)
a. Decius Brutus is speaking.
b. Decius Brutus is speaking to Caesar.
c. Caesar tells Decius that he won't go to meet the Senate because of his wife's dreams about him being killed. Decius explains to Caesar that the Senate will mock him if he stayed home just because his wife was having bad dreams.
d. Caesar finally agrees to go out with Decius to meet with the Senate, ultimately leading to his death.
"And so near will I be/ That your best friends shall wish I had been further." (II.ii.132-133)
a. Trebonius is speaking.
b. Trebonius is speaking aside to himself.
c. Caesar has just told Trebonius to stay close to him when they were at the Senate. Trebonius now states to himself that Caesar will wish he had been farther.
d. Trebonius will stay close because he is one of the conspirators who later kills Caesar.
"Caesar, beware of Brutus, take heed of/ Cassius, come not near Casca, have an eye to Cinna,/ trust not Trebonius, mark well Metellus Cimber./ Decius Brutus loves thee not. Thou hast wronged/ Caius Ligarius. Ther is but one mind in all these/ men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou beest not/ immortal, look about you. Security gives way to/ conspiracy. The might gods defend thee!" (II.iii.1-8)
a. Artemidorus is speaking.
b. Artemidorus is reading a letter to himself.
c. Artemidorus is reading a letter that he wants to give to Caesar to warn him about the conspiracy against him.
d. Artemidorus knows about the plot against Caesar and later tries to warn him about it, but Caesar ignores his pleas.
"This dream is all amiss interpreted./ It was a vision fair and fortunate."
a. Decius Brutus is speaking.
b. Decius Brutus is speaking to Caesar.
c. Caesar has told Brutus about Calphurnia's nightmares about his death. Decius Brutus convinces Caesar that the dream about his bleeding statue with Romans washing their hands in his blood is really a good sign. He is saying that it is really a sign that the Romans will suck the reviving blood from Caesar as though he is a god or a martyr.
d. Caesar ends up feeling foolish to even think of staying home, so he heads to the Senate with Decius Brutus and the rest of the conspirators.
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