Julius Caesar

• Brutus loves honor and is noble
• Easily persuaded
• Gullible (Brutus doesn’t recognize that Cassius is doing the same thing to him)
• Brutus knows of no reason to kill Caesar so he decides to kill him.
• Brutus is comparing Caesar to an adder (poisonous snake)
• If we put a crown on Caesar’s head, we could give him power
• People act humble when they want to get somewhere

• Ladder of Success: Made up of people’s bodies. The only way you climb up the ladder is by stepping over the bodies. Once you reach the top of the ladder, you scorn at people.
• Once you reach the top of the ladder, you can only go down. (The fall) This makes a tragedy.
• Brutus is a logical and honorable man but here he is illogical in killing Caesar.
• Brutus is basing things on logical fallacy. Brutus’s mind is being perverted by cassius.

• The renaissance: The ideal Renaissance man ( 3 parts): Head (any images, intellect, reason), Heart (love, emotions), and Hand or Spleen (passions, violence, anger, bloody

• The part of the body where we should be controlled by is the head. If we let our heart control us we will get nowhere.
• Dreams are hideous, and Brutus has a guilty conscience. Brutus is moral but he is going against what he is doing.
• Brutus says that these guys should not take an oath. Cicero is the finest speaker in Rome. Brutus doesn’t want Cicero. Brutus says Caesar is the head and Antony is the muscle. This isn’t a good decision. If you’re going to be immoral once, you might as well keep killing. Brutus wants to kill Caesar gracefully.
• Everyone in the group is listening to the most noble. 

• There is another Brutus in the group. ( Decius Brutus: will convince Caesar to go to the Capitol.) 
• Portia (the wife of Brutus) , is a roman woman. The relationship between them is fine. 
• Brutus loves his wife. 
• Calpernia (the wife of Caesar) has been dreaming. She is dreams that he is a fountain spouting blood. 
• Caesar: self involved, conceded, proud, ambitious, 

• “Cowards die many times before their deaths.”- Caesar. A little part of him gets torn off if he stays home.
• Caesar wont tell the senate why he won't go. 
• Decius Brutus convinces Caesar to go to the senate.
• DB: tells Calpernia that she misinterpreted the dream.
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