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प्रश्न
What opinion do you form of Calpurnia from the play ‘Julius Caesar’ ?
उत्तर
Calpurnia plays a small but vital role in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. She is Caesar’s wife and plays a major role in only one scene. She is barren something that bothers Caeser likely caused her great shame. She acquiesces nonetheless when Caeser asked her to stnad in Mark Anthony’s path during the Feast of Lupercal race which would make her fertile. She had a dream that she saw Caesar’s statue ‘Which like a fountain with an hundred spouts did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans came smiling and did bathe their hands in it.’ She almost succeeded in getting Caesar to stay home on the Ides of March however her conspirators planned for this eventuality.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:
"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it."
(a) Who is the speaker? Who are 'you'?
(b) How did Caesar pay for being ambitious?
(c) What argument did the speaker give to show that Brutus was wrong in his judgement of Caesar?
Answer the following question briefly.
What does Calpurnia try to convince Caesar of?
Answer the following question briefly.
Why does Calpurnia say Caesar's 'wisdom is consumed in confidence'? What does she mean?
Answer the following question briefly
Who says "Et tu Brute"? When are these words spoken? Why?
Answer the following question briefly.
Whom does Antony call 'the choice and master spirits of this age"? Why?
Answer the following question briefly.
When he is left alone with the body of Caesar what does Anthony call Brutus and the others?
Answer the following question briefly.
What reasons does Brutus give for murdering Caesar?
Answer the following question briefly.
At the end of the scene what is the fate of Brutus and Cassius ?
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
CAESAR Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
a) Whom is Caesar speaking to? Why does he say these words?
b) What fears has the listener expressed?
c) What is the basis for the fears expressed?
Activity
Stage a press conference that takes place shortly after Caesar's death. The "reporters" should have their questions written down ahead of time to ask the students who play the roles of Brutus, Antony and Cassius.These questions should focus on the key events in the play, as well as the characters' intentions.
