Last week, we read a story, Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare. We read and compared speeches of Brutus and Antony. The clearest difference between these two speeches is style; Brutus’ speech is normal sentences, while Antony’s speech is like a poem. I learned in my Intensive Reading class that what high classes people say are written like a poem in play. I don’t know this story well, but I felt Antony is on higher position than Brutus, or Antony tries to be looked higher class.
I searched the story of Julius Caesar and know that Brutus is a traitor and Antony overthrows Brutus. In the story, Antony is a hero, so to show Antony’s greatness, Shakespeare used poem style on Antony’s speech. I think interesting that even if readers don’t know relationships of story’s character, they can imagine character’s position.
Another one I thought interesting is about the rule of 3; this story was written in about 1599 and the rule of 3 has used since this age. The rule isn’t changed still today. Antony uses the rule of 3 and 4 effectively, and emphasizing that Caesar is ambitious in the line of the rule of 4, makes his speech more impressive.
