Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 1.PORTIA. If this were true, then should I know this secret. I grant I am a woman, but withal A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife.300 I grant I am a woman, but withal A woman well reputed, Cato’s daughter.Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded? Tell me your counsels; I will not disclose 'em.305 I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary woundHere in the thigh. Can I bear that with patience, And not my husband’s secrets?BRUTUS. O ye gods,310 Render me worthy of this noble wife![Knocking within]Hark, hark, one knocks. Portia, go in a while, And by and by thy bosom shall partake The secrets of my heart.315 All my engagements I will construe to thee, All the charactery of my sad brows. Leave me with haste.
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 1, scene 1.[FLAVIUS.] Go you down that way towards the Capitol; This way will I. Disrobe the images, If you do find them decked with ceremonies.MARULLUS. May we do so?65 You know it is the feast of Lupercal.FLAVIUS. It is no matter; let no images Be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about, And drive away the vulgar from the streets: So do you too, where you perceive them thick.70 These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men, And keep us all in servile fearfulness. [Exeunt]
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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 1.DECIUS. Shall no man else be touched, but only Caesar?CASSIUS. Decius, well urged. I think it is not meet Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar, Should outlive Caesar. We shall find of him A shrewd contriver. And you know his means,165 If he improve them, may well stretch so far As to annoy us all; which to prevent, Let Antony and Caesar fall together.BRUTUS. Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,170Like wrath in death and envy afterwards— For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar, And in the spirit of men there is no blood.175O, that we then could come by Caesar’s spirit, And not dismember Caesar! But, alas, Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends, Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully. Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,180Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, Stir up their servants to an act of rage, And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make Our purpose necessary, and not envious,185Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be called purgers, not murderers. And for Mark Antony, think not of him, For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm When Caesar’s head is off.190
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 1, scene 2.BRUTUS. Ay, Casca. Tell us what hath chanced today, That Caesar looks so sad.225CASCA. Why, you were with him, were you not?BRUTUS. I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.CASCA. Why, there was a crown offered him: and being offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand, thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.230
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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 1.BRUTUS Give me your hands all over, one by one.CASSIUS And let us swear our resolution.BRUTUS No, not an oath. If not the face of men, The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse—120 If these be motives weak, break off betimes, And every man hence to his idle bed. So let high-sighted tyranny range on Till each man drop by lottery. But if these— As I am sure they do—bear fire enough125 To kindle cowards and to steel with valor The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen, What need we any spur but our own cause To prick us to redress? What other bond Than secret Romans that have spoke the word130 And will not palter? And what other oath Than honesty to honesty engaged, That this shall be, or we will fall for it? Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls135 That welcome wrongs. Unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt. But do not stain The even virtue of our enterprise, Nor th' insuppressive mettle of our spirits, To think that or our cause or our performance140 Did need an oath, when every drop of blood That every Roman bears—and nobly bears— Is guilty of a several bastardy If he do break the smallest particle Of any promise that hath passed from him.145
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 4.PORTIA. I prithee, boy, run to the Senate House; Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone.— Why dost thou stay?LUCIUS. To know my errand, madam.PORTIA. I would have had thee there and here again5 Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there. [Aside] 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!10 [To LUCIUS] Art thou here yet?LUCIUS. Madam, what should I do? Run to the Capitol, and nothing else? And so return to you, and nothing else?PORTIA. Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, For he went sickly forth; and take good note15 What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him. Hark, boy, what noise is that?LUCIUS. I hear none, madam.
What is imagery in a play?
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 1, scene 1.[FLAVIUS.] See whether their basest mettle be not moved.60 They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. Go you down that way towards the Capitol; This way will I. Disrobe the images, If you do find them decked with ceremonies.MARULLUS. May we do so?65 You know it is the feast of Lupercal.FLAVIUS. It is no matter; let no images Be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about, And drive away the vulgar from the streets: So do you too, where you perceive them thick.
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