Julius Caesar Classwork

2 Puns:
“A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. (1,1, 13-14) This line can mean two different ideas. It can mean a mender that can fix the soles of your shoes, but also a mender of the soul inside you.

“But withal I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I recover them. (1,1, 25-36) This means he can mend shoes, but it can also be interpreted as helping someone in danger.

3 Images:
“Transformed with their fear, who swore they saw men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets.” (1,3, 24-25) This image is visual.

“ But never till tonight, never till now, did I go through a tempest dropping fire.”
(1,2, 9-10) This image is visual.

“ He put it the third time by; and still as he refused it, rabblement hooted, and clapped their chopped hands, and threw up their sweaty night-caps.” (1,2, 238-240)
This image is visual.

2 Metaphors:
“Would he were fatter! Caesar is talking about Cassius and how he wishes that he were hungry for power. ( 1,2, 195)

“Let me have men about me that are fat.” Caesar wishes that the people around him weren’t so hungry for power. (1,2, 189)

2 Similes:
“Give me some drink, Titinius, as a sick girl.” Cassius says this because he wants to be treated like a sick girl, and waited on. (1,2, 125-126)

“Even in the aim and very flash of it.” Cassius says this to offer himself as a prime target.
(1, 3, 53)

Iambic Pentameter:

O you/ hard hearts/, you cruel/ men of Rome = 4 feet
Run to your houses/, fall upon your knees = 2 feet

Who speaks in poetry? Who speaks in prose? Who speaks in blank verse? why?
Cassius speaks in poetry.
2nd commoner speaks in prose to make the story have rhythm.