...Rome is reflected perfectly through Calpurnia and Portia in Ancient Rome history. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Portia and Calpurnia, the only women roles in the play, display a woman’s role in Ancient Rome of women being inferior to their husbands and under their authority. In Act II Scene I, Brutus leaves his bed at night to join Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus, Trebonius, and Cassius on a conspiracy plan. His wife, Portia becomes worried. She does not know what is going on but curiously wants to know. She is worried about her husband because she can tell something has been going on with him. However, he still refuses to tell her, even as much as she urges him to. Women were to respect their husbands and under his authority she was not obligated to force him to tell her what is going on. This is exhibited in scene 2 when Portia said, “Nor for yours either. Y’ have urgently, Brutus, stole from my bed; and yesternight at supper you suddenly arose and walked about musing and sighing, with your arm across and when I asked you what the matter was you stared upon me with ungentle looks” (II.i.237-242) This statement relates the fact of women not having control on their husband’s actions because just as Brutus left from the bed a women could not do so and also as Portia asked Brutus what was the matter he sighed, fussed, and looked at her harshly. He didn’t tell her anything, because he wasn’t obligated to do so. Portia urges Brutus to tell her the matters in which are causing him...
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...Marcus Brutus: Noble Hero with a Tragic Fate In his influential work Poetica, the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” According to his analytical studies of literature which this quote appears in, successful tragedies achieve that deeper effect by arousing internal sensations of pity and fear in their audience through intricate character development of a virtuous and respectable protagonist. However, even a seemingly ideal character requires relatable flaws for their audience to connect on an emotional level with them; thus, authors of tragedies also give their heroes a hamartia, which Aristotle defines as a weakness in character. This single...
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...Julius Caesar full title · The Tragedy of Julius Caesar author · William Shakespeare type of work · Play genre · Tragic drama, historical drama language · English time and place written · 1599, in London date of first publication · Published in the First Folio of 1623, probably from the theater company’s official promptbook rather than from Shakespeare’s manuscript publisher · Edward Blount and William Jaggard headed the group of five men who undertook the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio narrator · None climax · Cassius’s death (V.iii), upon ordering his servant, Pindarus, to stab him, marks the point at which it becomes clear that the murdered Caesar has been avenged, and that Cassius, Brutus, and the other conspirators have lost in their attempt to keep Rome a republic rather than an empire. Ironically, the conspirators’ defeat is not yet as certain as Cassius believes, but his death helps bring about defeat for his side. protagonists · Brutus and Cassius antagonists · Antony and Octavius setting (time) · 44 b.c. setting (place) · Ancient Rome, toward the end of the Roman republic point of view · The play sustains no single point of view; however, the audience acquires the most insight into Brutus’s mind over the course of the action falling action · Titinius’ realization that Cassius has died wrongly assuming defeat; Titinius’ suicide; Brutus’s discovery of the two corpses; the final struggle between Brutus’s men and the troops...
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...CARIBBEAN E XAM I NAT I O N S COUNCIL 6010 CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE® EXAMINATION *J1601219020* 12 JANUARY 2016 (a.m.) J1601219020 FILL IN ALL THE INFORMATION REQUESTED CLEARLY IN CAPITAL LETTERS. TEST CODE 0 1 2 1 9 0 2 0 SUBJECT ENGLISH B – Paper 02 PROFICIENCY GENERAL REGISTRATION NUMBER SCHOOL/CENTRE NUMBER NAME OF SCHOOL/CENTRE CANDIDATE’S FULL NAME (FIRST, MIDDLE, LAST) DATE OF BIRTH D D M M Y Y Y SIGNATURE __________________________________________________ *0121902001* 0121902001 Y 0121902002 E PA G TH IS W RI TE ON T DO NO *0121902002* TEST CODE FORM TP 2016010 CARIBBEAN E XAM I NAT I O N S 01219020 JANUARY 2016 COUNCIL CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE® EXAMINATION ENGLISH B Paper 02 – General Proficiency 2 hours 10 minutes READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. 1. This paper consists of TWELVE questions, arranged in THREE sections as follows: Section A: DRAMA Questions 1 and 2: Shakespeare Questions 3 and 4: Modern Drama Section B: POETRY Questions 5 and 6 Section C: PROSE FICTION Questions 7 to 10: Novel Questions 11 and 12: Short Story 2. Answer THREE questions only, ONE question from EACH section. 3. You MUST write in essay format and develop ALL your responses fully. 4. Write your answers...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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