Tucker Muse
Period 3
March 23, 2004
Caesar Group work
1. 2 Puns:
"A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience; which is,
indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
"But withal I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in
great danger, I recover them.
3 Images:
"Transformed with their fear, who swore they saw men, all in fire, walk up
and down the streets."
" But never till tonight, never till now, did I go through a tempest
dropping fire."
" He put it the third time by; and still as he refus'd
it, rabblement hooted, and clapp'd their chopt hands, and threw up their sweaty night-caps."
2 Metaphors:
"Would he were fatter! Caesar is talking about Cassius and how he wishes
that he were hungry for power
"Let me have men about me that are fat." Caesar wishes that the
people around him weren't so hungry for power.
Iambic Pentameter:
O you/ hard hearts/, you cruel/ men of
Run to your houses/, fall upon your knees = 2 feet
2. The characters of higher rank
and class speak in poetry, like Marullus, Flavius,
Caesar, Casca, Brutus and Cassius. The commoners
speak in prose because they are lower class and they do not deserve to act like
higher members of society.
3. Caesar- Leader, honest, smart, truthful, generous
Brutus- Noble, Virtuous, Courageous, Honorable, Admirable
Cassius- Dangerous, witty, smart, Power hungry, two faced