Month: December 2015

Do you agree with Caesar when he says that Cassius thinks too much ?

December 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Intro:

One of most Shakespeare’s most famous plays is Julius Caesar. He made a very slight differences made me stop more than once. There is a speech that I decided to make it my essay subject, “Let have men about me that are fat, sleek headed men and such as sleep a night. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.” Maybe Cassius will be as Caesar described him, or maybe not. However, who is Cassius?

Middle:

Cassius was once Caesar’s friend, and you know, dear reader how it is hard to kill your friend. However, Cassius have done the worst. What did he do? He persuaded Brutus the best friend of Caesar and that he blind trust him. To make him a leader of the whole conspiracy. And how? With the power of words, what that means? Well Cassius plays with his speech till he finds his self ok to go than he started talking about Caesar. What a snake, but he did not persuade Brutus directly. Look at this speech Brutus said: “I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well. But wherefore do you hold me here so long? What is it that you would impart to me? If it be aught toward the general good, set honour in one eye and death I’ the other, And I will look on both indifferently, for let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.” Now Cassius knows that Brutus is honourable man. Now compare, Cassius replied: “I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, as well as I do know your outward favour. Well, honour is the subject of my story.” As you notice Cassius is intelligent know not like a snake this time.

As all the audience knows that Cassius does not believe of Omens in the setting part of play, a serious man ha, but why he kills his self because of omens in the Finale? Does anyone know the answer to this question? Well because we are talking about death, do you see how unlucky Cassius is, the death of him was in his birthday. The opposite, and he was killed like alone, by his slave. Do you see how Shakespeare sets the play? good finale in my opinion. Anyway, what a foul. People say that an intelligent men such as Cassius will be idiots if they do like that.

Mark Antony, “Gentlemen all” in the climax, from this Antony speech: “I doubt not of your wisdom. Let each man render me his bloody hand: First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand; Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus; Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours; Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius. Gentlemen all, –alas, what shall I say?” Ay irony, back stabbing as a definition. Cassius understand him very well, Caesar, you gain one point. Know another snake is joining or should it be intelligent, call it whatever you like.

Cassius is really a weird character. Caesar describes him as a very dangerous man. Actually, Cassius likes to read, a sign of educated man. As George Orwell said: “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” Well some people say that the one who leads the conspirators not Brutus. Anyway, he is the who planned, and the one who made Brutus to kill his best friend. He looks like a snake. In the other hand we have Cassius the friend, that cannot accept his friend to leave him because of bribes, so he gave him a knife and wished that Brutus kills him or stop him from calling him a bribe taker, and it worked Brutus said ok let’s forget what happened, let’s start a new page. Don’t you see, Cassius is so clever even with his friend.

One question that I asked my self-thousands of times is, if Cassius was so clever, why he was not able to persuade the audience in the declining action when Antonio made his most famous speech? Was he not able to stop, or did he left the stage while Antony was talking. I do not think so, because he knew that he was planning to something and he tried to stop him, but it did not work this time.

Outro:

I made my final decision based on what I learned from this lovely book. Ay, and I say that Caesar was right, Cassius is a great thinker. But, he made big mistakes in his life. As any ordinary human being. I firstly was a bit confused, but know I really think that he is a good thinker. He died a noble death as noble romans should die. As Brutus said that Cassius was the last man of them all. He dreamed with Rome as the glory, as the freedom. Such as the noble roman Brutus did. This is my essay about Cassius, say as Cassius said: “liberty, freedom, Caesar is dead”

          

Journal entry of the diary of Anne Frank.

December 8, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Anne Frank is a girl who survived from the Nazis in World War II. However, she and 8 other people from her family and peter’s family did not survive for a long time. On 4 August 1944, everyone in the secret Annex was arrested. In order to understand the story, let’s start the story from the beginning.

Anne Frank received a diary as a birthday present on her 12 years old birthday(12 June 1942). She was very very happy, she wanted to write all of her secrets in that diary because she felt misunderstood by every one behind her. A month later her life changed. Do you wonder why? The Nazis controlled Germany thus they need to move. As a Jewish family Germany is not safe, so they went to Holland (Netherlands) specifically Amsterdam. They hide in secret rooms at the canal house, with the aid of helpers. Those secret rooms were known as an annex.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   However, even in she living this life, she did not lose hope of future. Furthermore, she lived her life on the annex inside four walls listening to a radio. She kept writing in her diary everything that happened, either in the radio or in her real life, her life was like hell. Why?

Because she was so small to live a horrible life such as this life that she is living. She feared everything. What a extraordinary thing, to hide from your. And because of your religion your country takes your nationality. This is a short summary of Jews life in Germany. However, this poor girl told us about her life in the annex. She said that you are not to talk loudly, sometimes the anal house was researched from the army searching for a Jewish. But, this girl did not lose hope. Especially when she heard in the radio that the war is nearly reaching the end, and diaries such as hers well be in demand. However, her dream to publish her diary become true because of Otto Frank, her father, that was the only survival.

Well if you do not know the story, on 4 August 1944, everyone in the secret annex was arrested. Someone had betrayed them. They were transferred to the WesterBork transit cam, and then on to Auschwitz. Otto Frank was the only person to survive the camps, as I said. The others all died.

As a conclusion, this book contains very important historical statements, so I recommend this book to all the people that search for a survival story with a touch of history in it.