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Julius Caesar (Acts I-II): Characters, Themes and Dramatic Devices
Literature in English (English Paper 2) · Chapter 3 · Drama: Julius Caesar (Acts I-II)
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- Background: Shakespeare's Roman play, the historical Caesar and the Roman Republic
- Characters of Caesar, Brutus and Cassius in Acts I-II
- Minor characters: Casca, Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, the Soothsayer and the commoners
- Themes: ambition and power, honour, friendship and manipulation, fate and omens
- Dramatic devices: soliloquy, dramatic irony, foreshadowing and the supernatural