Political
Assassination
Lincoln
Kennedy
Elected in 1860
Elected in 1960
Concerned with civil
rights
Lost a son while
president
Concerned with civil
rights
Lost a son while
President
Lincoln
Kennedy
His successor was a
Democratic senator from
the south named Andrew
Johnson, born in 1808.
Lincoln’s Secretary,
whose name was
Kennedy, advised him
not to go to the theatre.
He was shot in the back
of the head in the
presence of his wife.
His successor was a
Democratic senator from
the South named Lyndon
Johnson, born in 1908.
Kennedy’s secretary,
whose name was Lincoln,
advised him not to go to
Dallas.
He was shot in the back
of the head in the
presence of his wife.
Lincoln
Kennedy
Assassin John Wilkes
Booth was born in the
South in 1839.
Booth shot Lincoln in a
theatre and ran to a
warehouse.
Assassin Lee Harvey
Oswald was born in the
south in 1939.
Oswald shot Kennedy
from a warehouse and ran
to a theatre.
His assassin was shot
before going to trial.
His assassin was shot
before going to trial.
“Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek headed men, and such as sleep 0’nites;
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous”
-Julius Caesar
Shakespeare and The Tragedy
of Julius Caesar
Quickwrite
You have 2 minutes to write 5+ sentences
in which you respond to the following.
A good friend of yours has been elected
president of the student council. Soon, you
notice that he or she is abusing the position
by claiming privileges and using it to
further his or her social life. How would
you deal with this situation?
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
play, in five acts, about several
men trying to save the Roman
Republic from Caesar’s ambition
of having complete control.
Before Caesar, Rome was a
Republic
= equal citizenship and people could
elect tribunes to represent them in
tribunals = like congress and the
senate!
Julius Caesar in Context
Debuted at Globe
Theatre in 1599
Another noteworthy production:
Orson Welles, creator
of the famous “War of
the Worlds” radio
broadcast also directed
and starred in his 1937
production of Caesar
set in Nazi era
Germany.
Wow! 1485-1625=Exciting
Times!!!
Shakespeare lived and
wrote in =Elizabethan
Era
Elizabethan Era:
The height of the
Renaissance under
Queen Elizabeth
HOT ISSUE!!!
One of the hottest
political issues in
Elizabethan England
was the role of the
monarch and what
loyalty should be
owed him or her.
Hmmm? Sound
familiar?
During this time…
Renaissance=rebirth=15th &16th century Europe
Art, scholarship, and literature flourished
Reformation-King Henry VIII (Elizabeth’s dad)
split from Pope and Catholic Church and founded
Protestant Church of England
Age of Exploration-The Americas and more
Age of Discovery-many scientific discoveries
including telescope and planetary motion
Heard of these guys?
Other figures from the Renaissance
Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Leonardo Da Vinci
Christopher Columbus
Hernán Cortés
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro
Donatello
Michelangelo
TRAGEDY
tragedy: a play in
which events turn out
disastrously for the
main character or
characters
Tragic Hero
a character whose basic
goodness and superiority are
marred by a tragic flaw
a fatal error in judgment that
leads to the hero’s downfall.
Brutus-is noble, but is a poor
judge of character-too rigid in
his ethical and political
principles
Caesar-brings great things to
Rome, but proud, arrogant,
and ambitious
Dialogue
a conversation between
characters.
Monologue
a speech by one character in
a play, story or poem.
Given to another character.
Soliloquy
a speech given by a
character alone.
Aside
short speech delivered by an
actor in a play, which
expresses the character’s
thoughts. Traditionally, the
aside is directed to the
audience and is presumed to
be inaudible to the other
actors.
Irony
Dramatic
Verbal
Irony of Situation
Verbal Irony
Author says one thing and means something
else.
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Irony of Situation
When what is expected does not
occur.
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Dramatic Irony
Audience knows something that a character
in the literature does not know.
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What type of Irony is it?
Antony says Brutus is
“an honorable man”
What type of Irony is it?
The audience knows
about the plot to
assassinate Caesar, but
Caesar does not.
We watch Caesar go out
on the Ides of March
with suspense.
Shakespeare’s Theatre
emphasis on language and the human
voice
Shakespeare had to create atmosphere
and setting through language.
IMAGERY.
Shakespeare’s audience accepted the
stage convention of heightened
language, often in verse.
no-one spoke in verse outside the
theatre.
Imagery: picture the images that
these words conjure
‘Tis now the very witching time of night When
chruchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage,
blow, You cataracts and hurricanes spout…
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and
cauldron bubble
Look and listen for the poetic
devices…
Alliteration-repetition of consonants, usually
at the beginning of words.
Whereat with blade, with bloody, bladeful blade,
He bravely broached his bloody boiling
breast.” Quince-Midsummer
Assonance-repetition of vowel sounds
“What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?”King John
Consonance-repetition of consonant sounds
Characters
Flavius and Marullus
=Tribunes/government
workers.
Julius Caesar=Conquering
Roman general, a mighty
soldier swayed by
superstition.
Casca:
Conspirator\hates the
ordinary citizenry yet
is jealous when the
people honor Caesar.
Calpurnia=Wife of
Caesar
Marcus
Antonius/Mark
Antony =Vows to
avenge Caesar’s
death.
Soothsayer=Fortune Teller
Cassius=Displays greed and envy
and motivates most of the
conspirators.
Marcus
Brutus=Only
conspirator whose
motives to
assassinate Caesar
are pure.
Cicero=A senator
Cinna=A poet
Famous Quotes
Et tu, Brute?-Then Fall, Caesar.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me
your ears:
Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious, And
Brutus is an honorable man.
Beware the Ides of March
Three Ways to Persuade
-According to our good friend, Aristotle.
Ethos
(credibility)
Pathos (emotion)
Logos (Logic)
ETHOS
Appeal based on the character of the
speaker. An ethos-driven document relies
on the reputation of the author.
Why should I trust you as a
speaker? What makes you such
an expert?
PATHOS
Appeal based on emotion.
Advertisements tend to be pathosdriven.
How are you going to make me
emotionally involved? Humor?
Sadness? Fear?
LOGOS
Appeal based on logic or
reason.
Statistics, Cause and effect, examples,
quotes from experts
Lastly…
Address readers' concerns,
counterclaims, biases, and
expectations.
What might the opposition say, and
how do you plan to counter attack?
Restatement- Restatement-Rephrasing an
idea in different words, in order to more
fully explicate the concept, and magnify its
importance to listeners.
Repetition- Repetition-the reuse of the same
words, or nearly identical terms, repeatedly
for emphasis, in order to emphasize their
importance.
“ I have a Dream”-MLK
Parallelism The repeated use of phrases,
clauses, or sentences that are similar in
structure or meaning. Writers use this
technique to emphasize important ideas,
create rhythm, and make their writing more
forceful and direct.
“ I came, I saw, I conquered.”
Rhetorical Question-a statement that is
formulated as a question but that is not
supposed to be answered.
. . . For if we lose the ability to perceive our faults,
what is the good of living on? --Marcus Aurelius
Diction-word choice
Notice the change in tone:
“An odor filled the room.”
“A Stink filled the room.”
Diction: What words have a strong
connotation (emotion)?
“our remonstrances have produced
additional violence and insult; our
supplications have been disregarded; and
we have been spurned, with contempt, from
the foot of the throne.”
What words have a strong
connotation (emotion)?
“our remonstrances have produced
additional violence and insult; our
supplications have been disregarded; and
we have been spurned, with contempt, from
the foot of the throne.”