Month: November 2014

I could possibly be convinced if I thought like you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I will never move like the Northern Star who’s stable has no equal in the sky. The sky shows many stars they all shine but there is one that stays put. Just like on Earth, full of men but out of all of them I remain unassailable and I never move.

I did not translate all because I didn’t know what it exactly meant, I wrote the proper language in those places.

Understanding

There is a soliloquy from Antony to the crowd. There is no real quotation to show this, he is just speaking to the crowd revealing his thoughts.

Antony pretended to make friends with the conspirators but he is still secretly hating them. ‘Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood.’ This means that there should be despair and stress to whoever drew this blood. He says ‘A curse shall light upon the limbs of men.’ This means that something bad should happen to the conspirators.

Antony is asking for forgiveness from Brutus because Brutus killed Caesar and he thinks that the conspirators will kill him. He tries to make peace with the conspirators so he stays out of danger.

Fate, we will know your pleasures.

Personify: To give an object or thing human actions or feelings.

Fate is the development of events without human control. It can also be what your destiny is, what is suppost to happen for you.

“Caesar, beware of Brutus. Take heed of Cassius. Come not near Casca. Have an eye to Cinna. Trust not Trebonius. Mark well Metellus Cimber. Decius Brutus loves thee not. Thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar.

The first part of the scene has an ominous effect on the scene because the person saying it warns Caesar about the other characters in the scene. He is being told not to trust anyone who he thinks is his friends. This is shown in the part of the speech above. He says to ‘beware of Brutus’ and ‘have an eye to Cinna.’ He is told to keep an eye on Cinna and beware of Brutus as if they are preparing a conspiracy, which they are. At the end the person says ‘There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar.’ This is saying that the people he just mentioned all have the same plan as each other for Caesar and don’t like Caesar, we know this because after that it says ‘and its bent against Caesar’. This means that they may not like Caesar or they are against Caesar.

The rest of the text I did not notice anything relevant or I did not understand it.

What sort of man is Caesar?

Caesar is a man who doesn’t not want to look like a coward, he is a brave man. He believed his wife when she told him about her dream. When Decius says his opinion, Caesar changes his mind and calls Calpurnia a fool for fearing her dream.(How foolish do your fears seem now).He says he is ashamed that he believed them and Calpurnia is maybe making him look like a coward.(I am ashamed I did yield to them). When he says ‘How foolish do your fears seem now’ it makes itsound like he did not believe her in the first place and is trying to find a reason to be annoyed with her.

Choose a significant line, copy it out and justify it.