Today in Y6 we looked at poems that could be read forwards & backwards. I was stunned by this one written by one of my 10 year olds. Please share - I would love her work to be appreciated further afield. I wonder if it could even find a publisher?
there is something so chilling about the plebeians crying out to bring Brutus to his home with cheers and honor and three pages later vowing to burn his house with seething fury. mob mentality is a thing and is Bad
@brockeghs Cassius' motives seem so ambiguous. Yes, he doesn't want to live under a single dictator's rule but he is grooming Brutus to take Caesar's place. What will he do then? I feel like he is blinded by his unwillingness to be a controlled man. I also noticed that (Thread)
he is such a minority in regards to his way of thinking. It makes me wonder if he's had a different upbringing, perhaps an outside influence as to change his mindset so much from the general roman point of view. Is Cassius just incredibly cunning, or is everyone else just
@brockeghs Cassius' monologues. They're really fun to read into, and so manipulative it almost hurts. My favorite singular line is Cassius' remark, "Men, at some times, are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."