Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts Brutus and Caesar, Portia and Calpurnia

6. Our Course will seem to bloody , Caius Cassius (Act III Scene 1, Line 162)

A. Brutus says, "Let's be sacrifices, but nor butchers, Caius." Collect together the expressions used by Brutus which are appropriate to butchery.

* "Let's carve him as a dish fit for tthe gods."

*"To cut the head off and then hack tthe limbs."

b. Brutus says that ideally they should be killing Caesar's spirit, not his body. Look up the words of Caesar's ghost in Act IV Scene 3, lines 281, 282, and 284, and comment on the irony.

This is ironic because they were trying to destroy Caesar completely his body and soul, but they killed his body not his soul as it still lives on this is ironic because they didn’t destroy Caesar as he still live on in the form of a spirit.

c. Brutus turns harsh words and phrases into softer ones, to make a savage act seem like a civilized one. How does he choose his words to achieve this?

Brutus uses words to make it sound like he didn’t want to do the crime really he chose words to make it seem like he was doing a good dead not a bad one. He compares it to a bloody butchers job, and says he is dismantling of Caesars body from his spirit in a noble way.

d. How is Brutus's dismissal of Antony consistent in expression with his earlier imagery?

Antony was described as a follower early on in the book. He is true to this description throughout the book as well when he followed, Caesar.

Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts Brutus and Caesar, Portia and Calpurnia.

Oval: Brutus

- The Nobles supported him
Both - He was honorable
- His people were above his -These men were friendships
both Romans - He was a supporter of Pompey
-They were leaders -He had an honorable wife
-They could easily be -He was a conspirator
flattered -He was against kings
-They believed the good
things that people said
about them

Oval: Caesar

· A rival of Pompey
· He had a mistress
· He was liked by the Plebeians
· He was murdered
· He was an ambitious person
· He wanted to become king

The sentences :

1^ST

Shakespeare puts a flaw in one of the two characters of Brutus and Caesar the flaw is not in Brutus as he is always noble and good to his wife. Shakespeare puts the flaw in Caesar because he isn’t noble to his wife and he doesn’t care more about the good of his people than his friends, which Brutus does. Shakespeare does this to create the plot for a tragedy. In a way this all makes sense with the trates that each one was given by Shakespeare since Caesar wants everything like to be king and Brutus doesn’t. This easily shows who is going to have the tragic ending because a person of good deeds will normally live a good life.

2^ND

Portia and Calpurnia are both wives of powerful men in the play and they both want the best things for their husband unfortunately there husbands have complete opposite attitudes. This creates a problem because Calpurnia warns Caesar of her bad dream telling him to stay home, but Caesar wants the crown too much so he insists on going to receive it. Now this choice was obviously going to happen as Shakespeare needed you the reader to feel like come on Caesar take your wives advice for once so you don’t regret it. Then the tradgedy part of the play kicks in because a higher class man was killed even though he was warned by his wife and this makes for a good tragedy plot.