By: Ean Scanameo, Lola Musa, Merylin Okebe, Cherry Moparthy and Pruthak Patel

Step One:The Close Reading Two Important Quotes:

1) Quote: “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: -- Not that I loved

Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

Explanation: After killing Julius Caesar, his best friend, Brutus gives a speech to the people of Rome to justify his reasons for what he did. In this compelling statement Brutus says that although he loved Caesar very much, he loved Rome even more. With this quote, Brutus justifies his reason for killing Caesar, but also promotes himself by showing his loyalty to Rome.

2) Quote: “With this I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.”

Explanation: As Brutus makes his speech to the people of Rome, he confides that he killed Julius Caesar who was his best friend. Brutus concludes his speech with a powerful statement where he proclaims that he would have sacrificed himself for the good of his country. He exploits the situation by informing the people that he puts his country of Rome above everything else including himself.

Cherry Moparthy

Step one Continued: 5 Key Words

1) Word: HonourExplanation: Throughout the speech, it is evident that honour is a key element. Brutus expresses the idea of honour by explaining to the people why he killed Julius Caesar and he takes the idea of honour even further by encouraging that every man should do what is best for Rome.

2) Word: SacrificeExplanation: Sacrifice is an important concept in Brutus’s speech. Brutus believes that sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice for the greater good and a brighter future. In the speech, Brutus believes that he sacrificed Julius Caesar for the good of Rome.

3) Word: ValourExplanation:Valour mean to show great courage. During the speech, Brutus often self promotes himself by using his reason for killing Julius Caesar as valour, honour, and bravery. This word is significant to understanding the play because the main message is that it takes great courage to do what is best for your country.

Step One Continued: 5 Key Words

4) Word: AmbitionExplanation: Ambition plays a significant role in the play. The reason Brutus persuaded the crowd was by showing them his ambition and love for Rome. He takes it even further by claiming that he is willing to die for Rome if it will be better off without him.

5) Word: LoveExplanation: Love can cause many actions, words, and regrets. Although Brutus claims that he loved Julius Caesar very much, but he loved Rome even more. He uses tactics such as emotion to show off his love and loyalty towards Rome.

STEP TWO: EIGHT IMPORTANT FACTS● Julius Caesar was born in Rome on 12 or 13 July 100 BC into the prestigious Julian clan.

● Caesar was a politician and general of the late Roman republic, who greatly extended the Roman empire before seizing power and making himself dictator of Rome.

● Caesar allied himself with two key people, Pompey and Crassus.

● Pompey was a war hero who had been badly treated by the Senate, while Crassus was a multimillionaire.

STEP TWO CONTINUE: EIGHT IMPORTANT FACTS● Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar,Julia Caesaris

and,Augustus were his children from different mothers.● IN March 15, 44 BC Caesar was assassinated at ,

Theatre of Pompey, Rome, Italy by a group of rebellious senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.

● The young Julius went to Rhodes to study oratory, but on his way he was captured by pirates whom he charmed and seemingly befriended. After he was freed, Julius arranged to have the pirates executed.

● “What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”—Julius Caesar

Step 3) Discuss the overall purpose and claim of the

speech.

The overall purpose and claim of this play is that people should be loyal to their country and Brutus thought that killing Ceasar was better for his country. Brutus killed his best friend Caesar for his country and for the greater good. Brutus self promotes himself by telling the citizens that they should sacrifice and think logically in matters regarding their country.

Structure and Strategies ● This is a narrative speech written by William Shakespeare for his play “Julius Caesar”

which is a play to reenact how Julius Caesar was murdered, in the play the story is obviously a little different. In the speech Brutus, the supposed killer of Julius Caesar, is trying to explain why he killed Caesar and persuade the nation (his audience) that he did it for the greater good, as said before in the claim section. This is a section of the entire play and only Brutus is speaking, but it is still in a script format.

● Throughout the speech Brutus is using pathos to get the trust of the people back. He mentions, love, loyalty, honour, and, valour, multiple times in the speech. These words are the ones that stand out as some of the key terms. a quote from earlier was about Brutus’s love towards Rome being greater than his love towards Caesar. This was very emotional for him and the audience who, he was trying to explain this concept to. He speaks of Caesar’s honor and valour as, it is far greater than his own, but he speaks of loyalty towards the nation,as it was better than Caesar. This was to convince the nation using his emotions and mixing them with the audience’s to truly show that he did the right thing

● He asks many questions, but most of them are rhetorical, their purpose is to plant the idea in the audiences mind. He asks them, after explaining his reasoning and how much he loved Caesar and Rome, “ Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country?” He says this to convince the audience that he did it for a reason and if anyone else was in his place they would have done it also. This was one of the ways that Caesar showed ambition towards Rome, He repeatedly asked if he had offended Rome or anyone and no one replied each, he paused this one time making it an actual question, but everybody in the audience replied no because, by this point he had convinced everyone.

● One major quote that convinced the nation that, Brutus truly is loyal and truly loves Rome, was “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” This question wasn’t answered by the audience or even Brutus it was supposed to be there to show the people that Brutus helped them by killing Caesar.

Structure and Strategies Continued:

Step 5: Evaluate how the chosen strategies were or were not effective and why they were chosen

The effectiveness of this speech is that loyalty is showed when Brutus claimed that he loved his country more than he did for Ceasar. This speech also dealt with peer pressure when a man manipulated Brutus into thinking that Ceasar was a manipulative person and could contain lots of power.Lastly at the end when Brutus said that he would sacrifice himself to please his country.

CAESAR SALAD

BIBLIOGRAPHY● http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/

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Caesar_2.htm