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| What quality of personality was Caesar killed over? If you're in a similar situation to Lakers (i.e., cramming to pass courses under deadline) you might want to go right to Brutus' speech to the crowd over Caesar's body: "Death for his ambition!" And the great replying speech by Mark Antony: "The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it....when that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept! Ambition should be made of sterner stuff!" This would allow you to answer an essay question in a few pithy words. If you have the leisure to read the play for its own sake, you can go deeper into the ways the playwright shows us how ambition works in our minds and hearts to elevate us or take us down. Enjoy! Feste In future could you ask all of your questions in one post? And if it's homework would you be kind enough to tell us whether you've read the play, and if so, what you've learned about it so far? We are more than happy to help you, but it helps to know where to begin. Best wishes, Lynne And for our regulars, we will be seeing a performance of Julius Caesar at our conference in Baltimore in October. Is Caesar going to be played by Terry or Alan? (Will real knives be used?) We thought you might like to be Caesar, Art. After all, you live quite close by, so we can get thee to a hospital in thy area reasonably fast. Well, it's true: I never did wrong but with just cause (e.g., an appropriate pun). But Terry & Roger could go directly to Johns Hopkins. I not so sure that I could make it through Brutus' speech then Anthony's speech and then the drive back to Washington. What was Brutus's argument for killing Caesar? He got too big for his breeches. How many times was Caesar stabbed? I think that question translates into asking how many conspirators there were, unless somebody got an extra shot in. May one beg to inquire why anyone should bother to investigate the question? I'm not sure this is interesting. There are some aspects, such as the differences between a so-called historic statistics (stab wounds vs stabbers) and the literary equivalent. But I am more interested, as are others, in the line of questions raised, and the way they have been hung out to dry across our site. I am personally convinced (perhaps a private phobia) that some of our esteemed (nay distinguished) correspondents have entered the site with motives other than a search for the truth. The result has been an interesting view of how those who are concerned with the fabric of history can honestly differ between themselves about facts, their provenance, preferred routes of exposition, and functional limits on understanding. Savannah is listed as a veteran. Perhaps as such Savannah might try to relate this process to our various goals. Then we all might learn something. Joe Savannah is listed as a veteran because she broke down here homework assignment into nine separate posts. Using automatic Fellowship Forum standards one could say that Bush & Cheney were veterans. No other posts had any replies |