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Thursday, April 28, 2011

The song "Break" by Three Days Grace is an example of Julius Caesar because it is similar to Mark Antony. The song talks about breaking away from people and doing what you want to do. Antony "breaks" away from the conspirators after promising that he will not only announce positive things about them to the plebeians at Caesar's funeral. But, he had broke away from them and broke away from his loyal and servant like self and betraying them by doing the exact opposite in a sneaky like way. He also gains the plebeians on his side and they also break away from following Brutus at first to going against him. So they "light up" Rome and start a war.

This song also is similar to Antony because, not only does he "break away" from the conspirators, but he also "breaks away" and takes himself to a "higher place". He gains a lot of power and is head of the war against the conspirators because he was sick of what they had done. After being depressed from Caesar's death, he had picked himself and went to something higher and began a war. So he "breaks away" and begins to gain power and doesn't stop the war until he had fully killed the conspirators.

Link to video:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-40400287001/three_days_grace_break_official_music_video/#

"Break" by Three Days Grace lyrics:

Tonight, my head is spinning
I need something to pick me up
I've tried but nothing is working
I won't stop
I won't say I've had enough
Tonight, I start the fire
Tonight I break away,

Break!
Away from everybody
Break!
Away from everything
If you can't stand the way this place is
Take, yourself to higher places

Oh oh

At night I feel like a vampire
It's not right
I just can't give it up
I'll try to get myself higher
Let's go
We're gonna light it up
Tonight we start the fire
Tonight we break away

~Kake

Monday, April 18, 2011

Julius Caesar: Act 4, Scene 2 Quotes Modernized

BRUTUS:     Thou hast described A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucillius, When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforcèd ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle But when they should endure the bloody spur. They fall their crests and, like deceitful jades. Sink in the trial. Comes his army on? You have have described to me A man who was loving but his heart is turning cold. But remember this Lucillius, When his loving heart towards you begins to fade It will become an unreal and fake love Its plain and simple, that's just the way it is no tricks involved But shallow men who are full of themselves Parade their arrogance But when worst comes to worst They fall the hardest And sink to the bottom. Is his army coming? This paragraph discusses how an arrogant and fake man may act. Brutus is showing Lucillius how Cassius has betrayed him. It also shows what Cassius is going to act like. This goes with our topic of betrayal because Brutus explains a lot in this paragraph about how any man would act when betraying another man. Brutus is a very smart man and he know the acts of others. -Tiny T
If anyone
in this assembly, any close friend of Caesar’s, for
him I say that my love for him was just as much
as his. But you demand why I rose
against him, well this is my answer: It is not that I
did not love him, but I loved Rome more.
Would you rather that he kept living, and all of you would have
became slaves, or have him dead, and live as free
men? I cry for him because he did love me. I am glad
that he had good fortune. I honor him for
being brave. But he was too ambitious, and for that I killed him.

Brutus convinces the plebeians that Caesar was not fit to be the ruler. This shows an example of betrayal because Brutus was a friend of Caesar but killed him. I claims that he killed him for the people of Rome and in order to "save" the people he had to "get rid of the person who was creating (or going to create) problems for them. He betrayed his friendship and loyalty to Caesar for an another. He could've stayed by Caesar's side and did not interfere with how he rules and stayed loyal to him, but he betrayed him by killing him.
*Kake