Cobbler- it can either mean a shoe maker or a person that messes everything up.
A mender of bad soles- has two meanings, the first is fixing the bottom of worn out shoes, and the second is talking about people�s actual souls and that he can fix them
2 Metaphors
�And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,�
�Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?�
2 Similes
�Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus�
�The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king�
3 Images
�Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,�
�Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?�
"Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men.
2 Scansions
Who is calls / on me / it in / the press / that?
What trib / utaries / follow / him to / Rome?
2. The royalty is who speaks in poetry. The peasants are the one who use prose. Writers use blank verse to makes the play sound normal.
3. Brustus is strong, a very nice person, has a very good reputation with the people, is becoming corrupt, wants to have Caesar dead, and holds power among the people
Cassius is noble, wants more power, can become corrupt, does not see Caesar as a good king, thinks himself and equal to Caesar.
a. �To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,� �Caesar must bleed for it!�, �Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully�, �Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,� �When Caesar's head is off.�
b. �Thy evil spirit, Brutus.�, �To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.�, �Ay, at Philippi.� The ghost is saying that he will see Brutus at the next big battle. He is basically telling Brutus that he will see him there dead.
c. Brutus uses words that have harsher meaning, but are softer in tone.
d. Brutus only wants to kill Caesar�s spirit, so there�s no reason that he should kill Antony.
a. Brutus tells the crowd that they should believe him because he says that he is honorable. He says that he is honorable so that the people will believe what he says.
b. Dead to live is one of them, which means Caesar is dead, but all men should live.
c. Be silent so that you can hear/ not that I loved Caesar lees, but I loved Rome more/ as he was ambitious, I slew him/ there is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, and honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.
9.
a. On line 71, that paragraph, Antony says that Brutus is an honorable man 3 times. When he is saying this he is telling the audience the Brutus is a trustworthy man and he should be the ruler. Then when Antony says, �they that have done this deed are honorable,� he goes from talking about 1 person to more than 1 person.
b. Antony says that Caesar was faithful to him; he is ambitious, so overall I would have to say he said about 3 good things about Caesar.
c. He says that Brutus thinks that he is ambitious, but Antony thinks that he is not, But Brutus is an honorable man, and so he has to believe him.
Antistrophe: Romans, countrymen, & lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear me. Antithesis: I fear I wronged the honorable men whose daggers had stabb�d Caesar; I do fear it.
Apposition: They were traders; honorable men!
Simile: And as he pluck�d his cursed steel away, mark how the blood of Caesar flowed to it, rushing out of doors to be resolved.
15. On his arrival at the Senate, Caesar has 30 lines (Act III Scene 1, lines 35-48; 58-73) to speak before Casca strikes his first blow. Find examples in those lines of:
A. his pomposity: ��to think that Caesar bears such rebel blood that will be thaw�d from the true quality with that which meleth fools.�
B. his vanity: �Yet in the number, I do not know but one that unassailable holds on his rank, Unshak�d of motion: and that I am he��
C. his arrogance: �But I am as constant as the northern star�
D. his affection: �Know Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause will he be satisfied.�
E. his pride: �Yet in the number, I do not know but one that unassailable holds on his rank, Unshak�d of motion: and that I am he��
9.
a. He spices up his speech, showing strong character and contrasting words, so that he is having fun with the speech and enjoying the respect of the Roman citizens.
b. He believes the crowd is making rational decisions because he offers his life to the crowd hoping that they will tell him to live.
c. He speech is based on appeal rather than reason and logic, such as saying if Caesar lived everyone who die slaves, and
d. He patronizes by referring back to what he thinks is better for the country
e. He acts magnanimously by saying that he did it for Rome and that he killed Caesar because of his ambition, saying that his ambition would have been bad if he had lived. The wisdom that he approached is for the crowd trying to make them not mad at him. He could be politically na�ve, but he used a lot of wisdom in his speech.
6.
a. When the conspirators are talking about including Cicero, Brutus says no and Cassius then agrees with him and wants to leave him out.
b. His ability to strike the write note is his ability to compliment people with every little thing they do.
c. His willingness to take second place is when he yields to Brutus so that he will stay in the conspiracy.
4.
a. the commoners want to make Brutus Caesar when he had just killed Caesar for being king
b. the people feel bad for him because most people know what its like to loose a friend so they cant help but feel bad for him
c. people like to be commented so Antony comments the crowd to get it on his side
d. he wants to keep the crowd interested in him and rewards are always going to keep people intent on what is happening
e. the concentration shown by the crowd is amazing it shows how easily they are persuaded and how easily they can be talked into something.