Yesterday's Notes: Remember the goal for today is to finish both worksheet 3.2 and Quick Write #3--both count for Q.2 grade!!

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Answer these questions ONLY AFTER you answer the Act 3.2 Comprehension Questions #1-6 pg. 32 from your packet. You must use the RACE strategy to get full-credit for these responses (40 pts.)

1. How does Shakespeare show the relationship between Brutus and the crowd through the crowd’s response to Brutus’s speech?

We can tell the audience likes Brutus after his speech because they respond in a positive way. They say things such as, “Give him a statue” and “Let him be Caesar” letting us know they approve of his actions at this point (3.2.51-52).

2. Evaluate Brutus’s sincerity in these lines. Support your answer with evidence from the text.

Brutus seems to be sincere in his speech because he only admits what he did and why and nothing else. He tells the crowd it was, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved/Rome more” (3.2.51-52). This is what he told us earlier in the play.

3. How does Antony gain the trust of the crowd?

Antony gains their trust by easing into what he really means. He starts by calling the conspirators “honorable” and asks the crowd what they think of Caesar’s “ambition”.

7. How does Brutus use the word “ambition”?

Brutus uses the word “ambition” in regards to Caesar in a negative way, meaning power-hungry or wanting control. He states, “as he was ambitious I slew him"(3.2) he would make them all “slaves.””

9. How does Brutus use the word “honor”?

Brutus uses the word “honor” when he states, “Believe me for my honor” and “have respect to my honor” meaning that he has proven himself an honest and trustworthy person in the past (3.2.15-16).