Believe in your values. Guard yourself from selfish men who try to sway your thoughts and separate you from yourself. Cassius is trying to manipulate you into doing a horrible act of killing one of your best friends.
Remember the people who truly care about you and who want what is best for you. Your wife, Portia, loves you. She is very concerned and wants you to confide in her so she can do what she can to help you through these temptation.
Understand that the decisions you make will have consequences, either good or bad, and whatever you do is final...nothing can change the past. Brutus, think about what you're doing. You could destroy your honor, your reputation, your soul. Killing Caesar doesn't make you greater, you may be sending yourself down a path of no return.
Tell everyone of the things you do. All decisions come from what you believe. You have to be able to justify your actions. Your actions reflect who you are and if your intentions were good then you should be able to freely tell all of your doings. Brutus, make a speech to the people. Let them know who you are.
Unfailing. Make sure you are constant and are always there for the people. Make sure you love for them is unfailing. You killed one that they loved because you loved them. Make sure your promise to them and yourself remains true.
Stay true. Stay true to yourself and your decisions. Take responsibility for your actions. Be honorable and everything you do, do with the purest of heart.
-Ashtimicah415
Similes and a Metaphor
Cassius is like a politician because they both twist things and they are both ambitious.
Brutus is a hurricane of emotions and ideas all jumbled up into one huge mess, but he does mean to get somewhere.
Antony is like a hawk, wise, sly, watchful, and always meaning to achieve its goal.
By Cassieus
Ambitious Metaphors
Simile: Ambition is like the voice of Brutus, pulsing through the crowd awaiting for the cheers of his fellow Romans.
Metaphor: Ambition is the power that passes from Roman man to man, a storm leaving miles of waste in its wake.
Simile For Character: Antony is like an ripple in the ocean whose ambition pulls him to shore, where the people anxiously wait for the power of a wave.
By: Amandapanda
Metaphor: Ambition is the power that passes from Roman man to man, a storm leaving miles of waste in its wake.
Simile For Character: Antony is like an ripple in the ocean whose ambition pulls him to shore, where the people anxiously wait for the power of a wave.
By: Amandapanda
Paraphrasing Ambition
Original Quote:
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. (1.2.135)
Paraphrasing:
A real man, like the great Colossus, spans and walks across all parts of the diminutive world; and the petty men go through life hiding under his huge legs, and meekly look out to see our disgraceful graves. Men are the masters of their own lives, and can choose to be a real man or a petty man. The fate in the stars, dear Brutus, does not control us, but it is ourselves who decide the path of our futures, we’re not just audience to our life, but the authors of it.
*This quote is imperative to the story because Cassius is trying to persuade Brutus to join his plot to rid the world of Caesar. In this time period, people believed that the stars foretold a person's future and that once it is set, it cannot be changed. But Cassius is telling Brutus that he can fulfill his own destiny and decide what he wants to do with his life, as well as telling him that he can pave his own way to being known throughout history. Cassius uses examples of choosing to be a strong or weak man to manipulate Brutus. Romans were all about being strong and forceful so no one wanted to be known as weak, which is why this plan worked. It got Brutus to wonder if he was a weak or strong man, this made him consider all that Cassius said. The definition of ambition is the desire for some type of achievement. Brutus was all about doing what was best for Rome, even if it meant he had to kill Caesar to lead the Romans to a better life. This showed his ambition to do what was his definition of Rome's best interest. -Ashtimicah415
Ceasar's Salad (a dish only for the ambitious)
Ingredients
- 4 Aspiring Anchovies
- 2 heads Rome's Romain Lettuce
- 1 teaspoon Calpurnia's Capers
- 1 teaspoon Devoted Dijorn Mustard
- 1 cup Vigor's Virgin Olive Oil
- 1/3 cup Purposeful Parmesan Cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon Pepper of Pursuit
- 3 tablespoons Journey's Lemon Juice
Planning
Meaningfully mince Calpurnia's Capers, creating about 1 1/2 teaspoons worth. Then make it a goal to grate the 1/3 cup of Purposeful Parmesan Cheese.
The Execution
Motivationally Mix the Journey's Lemon Juice, Pepper of Pursuit, Aspiring Anchovies, Calpurnia's Capers, and Devoted Dijorn Mustard in a bowl. Then slowly add Vigor's Virgin Olive Oil, willfully whisking ingredients until smooth.
Finally, tear Rome's Romain Lettuce into 1-2 inch pieces and eagerly add them to a large bowl. Add half of the newly made Striving Salad Dressing, and mix. Add Purposeful Parmesan Cheese and serve to the ambitious Roman Republic.
By: AmandaPanda
Ambtion Hiakus
Determined, willing
to do whatever it takes
to murder Caesar
I will kill Caesar
I will kill Caesar he says
I will kill Caesar
I shall make it real
It will happen today, yes
Caesar will be dead
By Cassieus
Ambition poem
AMbition
If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and
your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!
This poem relates to my topic of Ambition because in the play cassius has lots of ambition to over rule caeser. In the poem it is basically saying that nothing will stop you from what you want and if you will do anything to get what you want then you have alot of ambition. Cassius is trying really hard to get brutus on his side to take over caeser he is trying to get a big group that is on his side. He is using many ways to try to get rid of caeser because he is full of ambition. All he wants to do is get rid of caeser and it seems like nothing is going to stop him from doing that for example he is wanting to kill caeser right now and he keeps coming uop with ideas to carry out his plan. THe poem talks about nothing stoppin you when you have ambition and it seems as if nothing is going to stop cassius. In the poem is says you will plan for it and cassius is deffinitally planning this out.
By: Reich'er
If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and
your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!
This poem relates to my topic of Ambition because in the play cassius has lots of ambition to over rule caeser. In the poem it is basically saying that nothing will stop you from what you want and if you will do anything to get what you want then you have alot of ambition. Cassius is trying really hard to get brutus on his side to take over caeser he is trying to get a big group that is on his side. He is using many ways to try to get rid of caeser because he is full of ambition. All he wants to do is get rid of caeser and it seems like nothing is going to stop him from doing that for example he is wanting to kill caeser right now and he keeps coming uop with ideas to carry out his plan. THe poem talks about nothing stoppin you when you have ambition and it seems as if nothing is going to stop cassius. In the poem is says you will plan for it and cassius is deffinitally planning this out.
By: Reich'er
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