Question

Read the passage. Then answer the questions that follow.

CAESAR. The gods do this in shame of cowardice.

Caesar should be a beast without a heart

If he should stay at home today for fear.

No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well

That Caesar is more dangerous than he.

We are two lions littered in one day,

And I the elder and more terrible.

And Caesar shall go forth.

–The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,

William Shakespeare

Which phrase in the passage includes a symbol?

What does this symbol represent?

What do the two lions Caesar mentions symbolize?

Answer 1

The answer is:

• The symbol is an animal without a heart, which represents a bad sign that Caesar should not go out.
• The two lions symbolize fear, although Caesar says he is more dangerous than danger itself.

According to the passage from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," the protagonist tells his servant to order the priests to make a sacrifice to the gods, which does not result well because the animal is found to have no heart. Nevertheless, even with the bad omen from the sacrifice offered to the gods, he misinterprets it as a challenge against danger. He believes that it is an obstacle, and that the gods are merely trying to test him.

Answer 2

1. The phrase containing a symbol in the passage is found in the line which says:

"We are lions littered in one day..."

2. The symbol - the two lions represent Julius Caesar.

3. Shakesphere uses this imagery to highlight Caesar's unnatural actions of fainting and bouts of seizures just before he becomes the king.

The vision about the symbols is received and prophesied by Calpurnia in Act 1 of "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar"

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