Through life’s bloody suicide of Caesar‚ Brutus thinks he now has full power over Rome. Shakespeare expresses how Brutus allows Antony to say his speech at the fallen ruler‚ Caesar’s funeral. Antony contrasts gullible Brutus who ends up killing himself showing the honor he had during the story. Antony shows that when you become power hungry you become desperate and can cause a distraction. The gullible Brutus is convinced by the conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar‚ thinking he will become crazy over
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II February 1‚ 2012 Funeral Blues Explication In W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”‚he uses a sort of calm or sorrowful tone. The woman in this poem says‚ “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚”(1) She is wanting to give respect to the dead. She says to get rid of the noises that may be distracting from the process of mourning. Auden creates a mood or sense of respectfulness. The first stanza is stating to get rid of the regular things that a funeral is about and get on with it
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Funeral Blues Summary Stanza 1 Lines 1-2 Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ The song begins with a series of harsh commands : stop the clocks! Cut off the telephones! The speaker sounds forceful and even angry. These seem like physical representations of time and communication to us. He wants everything to just stop. In the next line‚ he ask for silence. He wants dogs to stop barking too. On the other hand‚ the speaker is addressing an audience
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Mark Antony‚ in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ was a brave‚ intelligent‚ pleasure-loving‚ and cunning man. He was loyal to his friend‚ Caesar‚ whom he considered a true friend. He looked at life as a game in which he had a signified part to play‚ and played that part with excellent refinement and skill. Antony was devoted and preferred to be dependent upon Julius Caesar since he rather have enjoyed life than to claim the highest position in the government. He wanted the crown to be given
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Mark Antony was a Roman politician and general who played a big part in the destruction of the Roman republic. Mark Antony worked with Julius Caesar‚ who he replaced after his assassination. He did not get along with Caesar’s adopted son Octavian‚ and had to go through many struggles with him‚ causing war and hatred to spread throughout the empire. He later committed suicide because Octavian spread rumors about him and turned Rome against him. Following his defeat by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
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Driving to The Funeral By Anna Quindlen Writer Anna Quindlin was born in Philidelphia‚ Pensylvania‚ in 1952‚ and now lives in New York City. At the New York Times she became a regular op-ed columnist‚ winning the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. If someone told you that there was one behavior most likely to lead to the premature death of your kid‚ wouldn’t you do something about that? The four years of high school grind inexorably [inevitably] to a close‚ the milestones passed.
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Marcus Brutus: Backstabber or Roman Hero? Is Brutus really “the noblest Roman of them all?” Whatever Brutus does he wholeheartedly believes is best. He is willing to suffer for the good of Rome‚ and he was not looking for personal gain by killing Caesar as the other conspirators were. Yet Brutus is undone by his willingness to be persuaded by the people around him‚ his “tragic flaw.” Brutus’s internal conflict over killing Julius Caesar‚ a close friend and prominent political figure‚ is one of
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In William Shakespeare’s "Julius Caesar" Brutus is a friend of Caesar. Brutus is a believer in the republic and a member of the conspiracy against Caesar. Brutus is a highly respected man in the upper class of the Roman society. Brutus is a noble and a good man throughout the play. Brutus is a tragic hero because he is born from a high class family‚ is an overall a good person‚ and his trust is his tragic flaw. A noble man should be patriotic‚ ethical‚ and selfless. He should come from a heredity
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his increase in power through out Rome. Soon these worried citizens conspire to assassinate Caesar before he becomes king thus returning their republic government into a monarchy. These worried citizens consisted of two main characters Brutus and Cassius. Brutus ends up joining this conspiracy in killing Caesar because he strongly believes in keeping Rome a government ruled by the people. In addition to that‚ during the celebration‚ of Caesar is warned by the Soothsayer to “beware the Ides of March”
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either justify Brutus and the other conspirators’ act of murder or avenge Caesar’s death. Due to his overly ambitious nature and false claim that he did what was best for Rome‚ I believe that Brutus killed Caesar to gain power and therefore should be punished for his involvement in the murder. Brutus’s actions when he gained power after Caesar’s death indicated that he acted not out of love of his country‚ but out of selfishness. When Brutus addressed the public at Caesar’s funeral‚ it was evident
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