CAESAR : Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death but once.

Question

Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow :

CAESAR : Cowards die many times before their death; 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 does Caesar console and why? 

(b) Which quality of the speaker is revealed here? 

(c) Explain : Cowards die many times before their deaths. 

(d) Give the synonym of ‘Gallant’.

Answer 1

(a) Caesar was consoling Calpurnia because she had seen a nightmare and she was very much worried about the wellbeing of her husband.

(b) Brave, courageous and heroic.

(c) Those who fear death may die many times in a day but those who are brave die only when their actual death comes. 

(d) Valiant