Julius Caesar, Act 1 all superstisious dialogues
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- Assemble all poor men of your sort, draw them to timber banks and weep your tears. Into the channel till the lowest stream. Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. Vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.
- Here the tribunes of Caesar are telling the people in the crowd to go to the Timber river and cry and ask the gods to remove their sins of supporting Caesar victory instead of Pompey's death.
- Act 1, Scene 1
- Act 1, Scene 2
- A common slave, you know him well by sight. Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn like twenty torches joined, and yet his hand, not sensible of fire, remained scorched. Besides, I ha' not since put up my sword against the capitol I met a lion who glazed upon me and went surely by without annoying me. And there were drawn upon a heap a hundred ghastly women, transformed with their fear, who swore they saw men all in fire, walk up and down the streets. And yesterday the bird of night did sit even at noon day upon the marketplace, hooting and shrinking. When these prodigies do so conjointly meet let not men say, these are their reasons, they are natural.
- Forget not, in your speech, Antonio to touch Calpurnia for our elders say, the barren, touched in this holy chase, shake off their sterile curse.
- I shall remember. When Caesar says 'Do this,' it is performed.
- Here Caesar asks Antony to touch his wife while running in the race, as according to the elders this will remove her sterile curse.
- Act 1, Scene 2
- Beware the ides of march
- Here a soothsayer or a fortune-teller is warning Caesar about the 15 of march as according to his fortune-telling something bad might happen to Caesar on that specific day.
- What man is that?
- Here in the theme of supernatural it shows us that nature is upset, the earth is quaking, and the atmosphere is s ominous that there seems to be a battle going on in heaven.
- Shakes like a thing? O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks, I have seen Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam to be exalted with the threatening clouds, but never till now, did I go through a tempest dropping fire
- Act 1, Scene 3
- In this scene, Casca tells Cicero about some strange events. During his dialogue, the imagery of the burning fire symbolizes the anger of the Gods and the unburnt hand of the can only be explained by supernatural events. The lion which is roaring n the streets contributes to the threatening tone. The hundred ghastly women eyes shows that the burning men are walking.
- Act 1, Scene 3
- Cassius here again tries to manipulate Casca by indirectly backbiting about Caesar. There is a simile which functions to create a problem which invites Casca to turn fully against Caesar and come to a solution of joining the conspiracy with Cassius and other conspirators.
- Tis Caesar that you mean, is it not, Cassius? Tis Caesar
- Casca name me thee a man most like this dreadful night, that thunders, lightens, opens graves and roars as doth the lions in the capitol. A man no mightier than thyself, or me, in personal action, yet prodigious grown and fearful, as these strange eruptions are.
- Act 1, Scene 3
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