Julius Caesar Character Analysis Essay
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4Julius Caesar Character Analysis Essay
To help review and fully analyze the characters from this play, let’s write a five paragraph essay
focusing on how one of the characters is fully developed through other characters and events that
occur over the course of this text. You must focus on ONE major trait illustrated by this ONE
character. Follow the prewriting steps below and be sure to complete all steps to ensure success!
1.Character: Select ONE and circle your selection (select the one you fell most comfortable with)
Portia - example
- Antony
- Brutus
- Julius Caesar
- Cassius
Strong but cracks
2. Trait: Select ONE main trait (see list) ______________________________
3. Brainstorm: Complete the chart below using specifics from the text. (Note: This information is the
supporting details for the body paragraphs.)
Plot Event
Quote from character/About character that explains
how character shows trait
-“Giving myself a voluntary
When P. talks to B.
wound / Here, in the thigh”
about the men
coming at 3 am on
(II.1.323-324).
March 15, she
-Shows that she is brave and
strong to harm herself if B. won’t
wants to know
what’s bothering him
be honest with her
-“I have a man’s mind, but a
When P. sends
woman’s might” (II.4.9).
Lucius to the Capitol
-Shows that she is worried about
to find what B. is
her husband’s well-being, and
doing
sends her servant since she is
not allowed to be there
-“Impatient of my absence, / And grief that
When B. shares with
young Octavius with Mark Antony / Have made
themselves so strong…with this she fell
Cassius about P’s
distract,/ And (her attendants absent)
suicide
swallowed fire” (IV.3.175-179).
-Shows that she cannot handle life without B.
and with the Roman citizens (under Antony’s
permission) wanting to kill her husband, she
could not take the pain any more
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