Julius Caesar Act II Graphic Organizer Name
Character Notes
Important Quotes
Evidence of Loyalty (to whom?)
Brutus
Considers killing Caesar but has mixed feelings. Finally decides that it is the best option after he reads the fake letters.

Lucius
Works for Brutus. Confirms that tomorrow is the Ides of March and introduces the conspirators who arrive at the house.

Cassius

Casca

Decius Brutus

Cinna

Metellus Cimber

Trebonius

Portia

Ligarius

Caesar

Calpurnia

What does it mean about Cassius’s plan that he has to mislead Brutus to make it happen?
What does it mean about Brutus that he so readily believes what Cassius says?
What does it mean about Antony that Brutus refuses to kill him?

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.