Saturday, February 26, 2011

Julius Caesar - Duet Acting




I will be performing a duet performance with Dakshina. This passage are on Act 1 Scene 2 , lines 130 – 174. The whole point of these passage was Brutus and Cassius in private, where Cassius talks to Brutus about how he should take a step ahead and go against Caesar. Cassius wants to take over Brutus and put his mind into thinking of being a rebel so that Caesar has no chance of being the one to hold the crown.

This passage clearly shows how Cassius works his way into Brutus and plays with his emotions. Brutus starts off with showing the fact that he does not like Caesar and the way Romans have betrayed the great Pompey. But Cassius doesn't give up and he tries to make Brutus a rebellion against the Caesar.
"Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonourable graves." Cassius says these lines to convey that if Caesar is not stopped before he gets the crown, they (Cassius and Brutus) will be the one to regret it.


BRUTUS

Another general shout!
I do believe that these applauses are
For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.

CASSIUS

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 dishonourable 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.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?
When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.

BRUTUS

That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;
What you would work me to, I have some aim:
How I have thought of this and of these times,
I shall recount hereafter; for this present,
I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
Be any further moved. What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.

CASSIUS

I am glad that my weak words
Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Learning Profile

I am a gestalt learning with L profile. It says that I am Visual learner, which means I learn things better when I see than hear. These people use their right side of their brain more than their left. I need to move when I'm in stress so that it can help me calm down and clear up the stress.
The strategies that would help me in my learning in class would be for example in humanities, we are reading Julius Caesar, I prefer to see the movie before reading or annotating it. It helps me to understand it better because I'm a visual. On my Profile, It says that should should play games like soccer which has a lot of movement.
I would like my teachers to know this about me that I'm really quite because I like to listen to people rather than talk about it. I am more convenient when I see a movie and then read about it. So being visual is one of the strengths I have. When i read things, I imagine in my head . For example when you tell people to think of a forest, some logical people would see it in their heads with details. But, for logical people they see "forest" as a whole picture. They would see trees and that's it. Another example might be when someone bought you a gift which is bunch of blocks and you would like to transform it into the picture on the box. Logical people would read the instructions on how to make it and Gestalt people would start to make the picture themselves without following the instruction.