PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Act3 scene1
Artemidorus and the Soothsayer await Caesar in the street. Caesar enters with Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna, Ligarius, Antony, and other senators. Artemidorus approaches with his letter, saying that its contents are a matter of closest concern for Caesar. Caesar responds, “What touches us ourself shall be last served”—that is, his personal concerns are his last priority (III.i.8).
Act3 scene2
Brutus and Cassius enter the Forum with a crowd of plebeians. Cassius exits to speak to another portion of the crowd. Brutus addresses the onstage crowd, assuring them that they may trust in his honor. He did not kill Caesar out of a lack of love for him, he says, but because his love for Rome outweighed his love of a single man. He insists that Caesar was great but ambitious: it was for this reason that he slew him. He feared that the Romans would live as slaves under Caesar’s leadership.
Act3 scene3
Cinna the poet, a different man from Cinna the conspirator, walks through the city. A crowd of plebeians descends, asking his name. He answers that his name is Cinna, and the plebeians confuse him with the conspirator Cinna. Despite Cinna’s insistence that they have the wrong man, the plebeians drag him off and beat him to death.
RHETORICAL DEVICES/FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus and the other conspirators kill Caesar, which leads to eulogies being said by first Brutus, and then Mark Antony. Both of these characters use multiple rhetorical devices in order to fully express what they want to do and expand onto the speeches. One major way Brutus does this is by the use of parallelism to add ethos in his speech and make himself more credible. Another way this is done was by the use of anaphora to parallel two ideas and link them together. The use of anaphora is done through a pathos appeal. A third major way Brutus uses a rhetorical device in his eulogy of Caesar is by using antithesis. Caesar uses a simile in act 3 scene 1 when he speaks to Cimber. He says, "Ill kick you out of my way like I would a dog."
Caesar again uses a figurative language when he says, " But I'm as immovable as the northern star..." Brutus compares Caesar to dust in act 3 scene 1. He states, "though he now lies at the base of Pompey's statue, as worthless as dust. Brutus uses parallelism during his speech after the death of Caesar to help the plebeians understand why they should listen to what he has to say. This is an ethos appeal because the use of this parallelism helps to boost the credibility of the speaker towards the audience. Brutus uses parallelism in his eulogy when he says "Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe." What Brutus is saying at this point is that the public crowd should listen to him because he is an honorable man.
This complies with what is known about Brutus because he is the type of person who believes strongly in honor, morals, and being true to Rome because he is a Roman. Brutus uses anaphora when he says: "As Caesar loved me, I weep for him. As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him." What Brutus says at this point is that he is Caesar's friend and he loves Caesar as an ordinary person. Brutus also says that when Caesar is lucky and victorious. Brutus uses anaphora to convince the plebeians of why Caesar needed to die in order to keep the order of Rome.
Brutus uses antithesis along with a pathos appeal in order to clarify to the public why Caesar had to die. Brutus uses antithesis when he says "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." Romans do what is best for everyone, not just themselves. Brutus is mainly using these lines in his eulogy as a justification for why he killed Caesar along with the other conspirators. Brutus also put lots of emotion into his speech when delivering these lines to his audience, which helped to further support his cause and method of completing his goal. Rhetorical devices are in use throughout the course of the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, but are most visible and prominent during the eulogies of Antony and Brutus.
COMPLEX CHARACTERS
Brutus is Caesar's friend friend, but he kills him.
- Caesar is alive than dies.
-Antony says he will agree with the Conspirators but lies.
Conflict
Ceasar gets stabbed and killed by all the conspirators and by his friend Brutus. The crowed found a guy, Cinna the poet, since he had the same name as a conspirator he died, they killed him for his bad verses. Mark Antony he instigated the crowd to go against the conspirators.
Social and Political issues
Instead of being United as one and being able to demolish any threats or attempt of attacks, the empire was divided into two halves by the Conspirators. Also they had money problems, and instead of trying to fix it, the people of Rome went into bribing, and afterwards the entire empire broke down because of and unfit leader.
The social issue in the Roman Empire: because of a horrible leader, and money problems, the Empire grew poor and it lost everything. There was nothing that the people of the Roman Empire could use to trade in to get the supplies that they needed.
High taxes came and along side of it deadly diseases raged the town. Malaria and other plagues became a normal and every day living for the Romans. Because Rome had nothin, they weren't really able to get medical help. Due to that, the population of citizens dramatically decrease.
HOW THEMES TRANSCEND
Manhood and honor: Brutus honor his country more than Caesar.
Logic and Language: Antony sways the people to go against the Conspirators
1.)Who kills Caesar?
All the conspirators and Brutus
2.)What are Caesar's last words?
"And you too, Brutus? In that case, die, Caesar." Julius Caesar
3.)Under what conditions will Antony be allowed to speak at the funeral?
Only if he didn't say anything bad about the conspirators
4.)What did Brutus say to the people at the funeral?
That Caesar was ambitious and it was bad
5.)What did Antony say to the people at the funeral in his famous "Friends, Romans, countrvmen. Lend me your ears" speech?
That the conspirators had lied and said Caesar ambitious, even though he wasn't
6.)Why did Brutus and Cassius flee Rome?
Because Mark-Antony stirred up the crowed
