Category: Communication

Thou- old language way of saying

Mighty- possessing great power or strength

stead- the solace or role someone or something should have or fill

Fatal- leading to failure or disaster

liberties- rights of privelage

presage- a sign or warning of an event

strong- having the power to perform high physical demands

canopy-the uppermost branches of trees

ghost- an apparition of a dead person

will- expressing inevitable events

Towards the end of the scene Brutus goes to sleep and is accompanied by the ghost of Caesar. I don’t believe Brutus is actually confronted by a ghost. The first simple reason I don’t believe Caesars ghost is actually there is because the ghost only speaks after Brutus asks questions, “why com’st thou?” Ghost replies “to tell thee thou shalt see me at phillipi”.

My second reason Is I think Brutus is falling apart as the guilt of killing Caesar is haunting him. “Remember

In act 4 scene 3 Brutus and Cassius start to quarrel. The argument starts because Brutus has accused Cassius of accepting bribes. “Let me tell you, Cassius you yourself are much condemn’d to have an itching Palm, to sell and mart your offices for gold and under servers.” In this quotation Brutus insults Cassius by telling him he has an “itching Palm” which translates into he is always hungry for money. Brutus continues to insult Cassius “I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman” Here Brutus is telling Cassius that he would rather be a dog than him. We know he is insulting Cassius because a dog is considered a vicious dirty animal therefore saying he would rather be a dirty, vicious animal than Cassius.

In act 4 scene 1 Antony gathers at his house with octavius and Lepidus. Antony discuss who he needs to kill such as Lepidus’ brother and asks for his permission, “Your brother must die; consent you Lepidus?” Lepidus replies by giving Antony his consent, “I do consent”. Octavius agrees in killing Lepidus’ brother and tells Antony to mark him on their ‘hit list’, “prick him down Antony”. Them they also agree on killing publius after Lepidus suggests it “upon condition publius shall not live” Antony agrees, “he shall not live”. After Lepidus leaves

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Firstly we now know Antony’s true intentions are to seek revenge in Caesars death because of the various things he said in his soliloquy. I will also explain how I think Antony expresses his feeling towards Caesar and the conspirators in his soliloquy. One example of a quotation which proves Antony’s true intention is to kill the conspirators is, “woe to the hand that shed this costly blood”. I know when Antony says this he is telling us he will kill the conspirators because woe can be used as a threat or warning, in this case death, and the people who’s shed the blood (killed Caesar) are the conspirators. This confirms Antony wants revenge.

We know Antony had great respect and love for caesar as he opens his soliloquy by saying, “O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of Earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”. We know he has great respect for Caesar because he refers to Caesar as a bleeding piece of earth. What Antony means when using this metaphor is that he believes that when Caesar died so did a piece of Earth as he was that important. This contradicts when Antony says “let each man render me his bloody hand”. I believe Antony does this in order to gain the trust of the conspirators as he feels his life is threatened. Another thought could be that Shakespeare is using symbolism. When Antony puts Caesar’s blood on his hands this could symbolise Caesar’s  blood which represents Antony’s responsibility to seek revenge in Caesar death. In metaphorical terms; Caesar’s blood is on Antony’s hands.

Now that the audience know that Antony deceived the conspirators about his true intentions the audience will know when Antony is lying. This can also cause confusion if we were to ask has Antony’s character changed? Or was he acting the entire time to fulfill his plan of revenge? The fact that the audience knows Antony’s true intentions, as stated in his soliloquy, whenever he deceives another character the audience will know, unlike if Antony was on his own, Which is dramatic irony. At the funeral Antony seems to be agreeing with Brutus but has an implicit meaning to what he is saying.”when the poor hath cried, Caesar hath wept: ambition should be made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honourable man”. Firstly in this quotation Antony questions Brutus calling caesar ambitious “ambition should be made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honourable man.” I believe when Antony calls Brutus a honourable man he is giving the audience a reason to believe Caesar was ambitious ( because Brutus is honourable) but is proving more reasons to why he is not such as when he wept for the poor. In reality Antony is questioning Brutus, was Caesar actually ambitious? This statement also proves dramatic irony because when Antony says “when the poor hath cried Caesar has wept” his intention is to persuade the crowd into believing Caesar was an honourable man but Antony knows praising the man that the conspirators killed would anger the conspirators. Therefore he follows his statement  with “yet Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honourable man”. This statement would Mislead Brutus into thinking that Antony believes he’s an honourable man. What Antony is really doing is tricking the crowd into regretting Caesars death and in turn cause a rebellion against the conspirators.

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I disagree with the statement because I do not believe the majority of 16 year olds are machure enough to have the responibility of choosing how our country should run. They are not machure enough because they are still in school (year 11) therefore this tells us they are not politically intelligent enough to understand what is best for our country and how our country should be run. It also means they’re 16 years old which means they are going through the process of gcse ‘s. This places huge amounts on pressure on the 16 year old and he or she may not even have enough time to vote as they will be busy revising. If they’re not going to vote there’s no point giving them an option, is there? My last arguementt is that the 16 year olds are still going through pubirty which means they most probably feel like rebelling against society ( which most teens do) therefore telling us they will bad vote choices affecting the vote negatively. Summing up my arguement i disagree with the statement not only because it my opinion but to keep our country run correctly.

I believe we should continue our exploration of the universe as not only are we learning about our galaxy but we are helping earth become a better place. For example would we have known the earth were round if we hadn’t travelled to the moon? No. We have also built satellites to create maps of the world and have wireless phones. Without space exploration the world wouldn’t be the same.

Javaun soliloquy from Joel North on Vimeo.