Noble Roman; Brutus by https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6 The man all about the people en-us 2018-02-07 14:54:28 UTC 2024-06-02 00:41:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/261251956/fd0839657cdf1135c4d6fab5b93b5fd6/brut.jpg Brutus 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229129083 2018-02-07 15:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229129083 At War with myself 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229132179 "Nor construe any further my neglect Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men" (Act I, scene ii, 45-47).
  • Brutus has been going through a rough patch at this time with Caesar becoming so powerful and the people becoming such followers. 
]]> 2018-02-07 15:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229132179 No fear in death 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229136113 "What is it that you would impart to me? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently, For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death" (Act I, scene ii, 84-89).

Brutus is not afraid of dying for a good cause so he ask Cassius what does he want him to do. 
]]> 2018-02-07 15:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229136113 Fears 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229138604 "What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king" (Act l, scene ii, 78-79).
  •  Brutus fears that Rome has pronounced Caesar as king.
]]> 2018-02-07 15:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229138604 Background 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229140067 "My ancestors did from the streets of Rome The Tarquin drive when he was called a king"(Act II, scene ii, 53-54).
  •  His ancestors killed men that pronounced themselves kings in their Republic government.

"Set this up with wax Upon old Brutus' statue"(Act I,scene iii, 145-146).
  • The statue Cassius speaks of is the statue of Brutus ancestor. 

]]> 2018-02-07 15:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229140067 Motivations 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229141257 "Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities, and therefore think him as a serpent’s egg— Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous And kill him in the shell" (Act II, scene i, 30-34). 
  • Brutus understands that this power Ceasar is gaining is changing him and he knows he has to do something about it. 

“Speak, strike, redress! Am I entreated To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise, If the redress will follow, thou receivest Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!"(Act II, scene ii, 55-58).
  • He promises to do what's best for the people and stop Caesar's Madness.
]]> 2018-02-07 15:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229141257 Importance of Brutus 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229141500 "That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow. I have heard Where many of the best respect in Rome,
Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus And groaning underneath this age’s yoke, Have wished that noble Brutus had his eyes" (Act I, scene ii, 56-63).
  • People see Brutus as a great man and noble roman and they wish others would see. 

"Brutus and Caesar—what should be in that “Caesar”? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name. Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well.
Weigh them, it is as heavy" (Act I, scence ii, 142-146).
  • Cassius explains that Brutus is no different than Caesar, if anything Brutus is stronger that him.
]]> 2018-02-07 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229141500 Conflicts 226894 https://padlet.com/226894/j5apuhpdiye6/wish/229141696 Internal:
"What you would work me to, I have some aim. How I have thought of this and of these times
I shall recount hereafter. For this present, I would not, so with love I might entreat you, Be any further moved. What you have said
I will consider, what you have to say I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things" (Act I, scene ii, 163-170).
  • Brutus has to decide if he will assassinate his long time friend Caesar or watch his way of life be changed forever. 
Internal:
"I cannot by the progress of the stars Give guess how near to day.—Lucius, I say!— I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.— When, Lucius, when? Awake, I say! What, Lucius" (Act II, scene i, 1-5).
  • He can't sleep because he knows his only way to save ROme is to kill his friend.
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