Advice to Brutus

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

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