Themes: loyalty and betrayal

For loyalty, we'll use Anthony's speech, and scene where they killed cinna as flashbacks.For betrayal, we'll show Brutus' speech.

Scene I Act III -Caesar's murder *Brutus (theme:betrayal) * for this scene, we'll use Black Ops Video. Brutus: A while ago, I agreed to form part of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar because we didn't agree with his government policies( his ambitious desires would bring ruin/ calamity to Rome). Together with Cassius, Casca, and Cinna, we organized a plot to kill Caesar in the most efficient way possible. Even though my partners had other intentions and purposes regarding his death, my only intentions were to free Rome from ambitious rulers. Caesar was like a father to me, and one does not simply go against their parents. He loved me as though I was a son to him, and I loved him so. However, one sometimes finds themselves in the position where they have to do things that one doesn't want to do; there's always going to be someone who's in charge of doing the dirty job. In this case that person was me; I was the one who literally had to stab Caesar in the back, which is something I'm not quite proud of. I do,anyway, admit that I regret nothing. Everything I did was with the purest and most sincere intentions towards Rome and its citizens. However, the guilt is killing me; I feel horrible, as I begin to ask myself: what kind of man are you really, Brutus? Did the outcome justifies the means by which everything was done? Am I really that honorable man that many people take on as a role model? Am I truly living up to the perspective that people have of me as a noble? And as I still can't find the right answer to these questions that currently torment me, I decided to give out a speech to justify my actions. Yet, I have one more question that is killing me: are these people convinced with my speech?

*We'll need to include parts of the speech scene for Brutus(modern English)* Act III scene 2

Scene II Act III -Marc Antony's rethorical speech (modern English version) scene shown as a flashback. Theme: Loyalty *after the speech* Marc Antony: Julius Caesar was my best friend; my one and only true friend. My loyalty had always been with him, and it will always be, even now that he's not here anymore. I've chosen to stay true to him, no one else, but Caesar. I was quite disappointed at how things turned out for him, I still think it's not fair. At the moment, nothing really made sense to me. One day I talk to him normally and make plans for the future of Rome, and the next, I find him laying on the ground with a dagger through his back. And the most disconcerting part of it all was that it was a group of people supposed to be close to him who betrayed him so deeply. Brutus, out of all people in Rome, I never expected HIM to be the one leading that group of traitors. They all claimed to be doing a good thing by assassinating him, labeled him as an ambitious ruler, but what was it that made him ambitious? There's no truth in life, it's subjective; so the "truth" in a story depends on who's telling it. But since Brutus and the other Senators were such honorable men, whatever comes out of their mouth will be taken as the absolute truth. That's exactly the reason as to why anger, disappointment, and sadness mixed together led to me stand in front of the Romans to give them something to think about; to give them a second opinion, coming from the other side of the coin. My main purpose at giving out that speech *scene of the speech comes up, only Marc Antony's voice can be heard though* was not to justify Caesar's actions, but to force people to think for themselves and not be influenced by others' opinions. As a conclusion, I guess you can say that when you have a real friend, you'll stand by them forever, through thick and thin. Always stay true to your friends, and value their loyalty, for it is a strange gift to find in this world. Theme: loyalty -Cinna's death *analysis from Antony and Brutus' own point of view.* *we'll use the video for Cinna's death taken from the movie by Anahi* Antony: after I delivered my speech, Romans were so convinced of Caesar's innocence and true intentions that they were furious at the conspirators for assassinating him. Although I didn't see it, it was breaking news in Rome that day that they went out on the streets, determined to make the conspirators pay for what they did. They were taking justice into their own hands. A tragedy unleashed upon the empire as they killed Cinna the poet, fatally mistaken for Cinna the conspirator. Rage, anger and fury didn't allow them to listen to the poor guy plead for his life; they were so blinded, they made that enormous mistake. And while all this happen, the person who should have been going through that, freely escaped Rome.

Brutus: why were Romans trying to go against the senators? Why on earth were they determined to kill Cinna? Which Cinna did they truly want dead? Were they trying to prove some point in regards to the senators? Was it an act of rebellion? Either way, the answer does not matter; the thing is that they got the wrong Cinna, for the senator escaped. I, myself, have reached the point of realizing the sad truth behind this gravitating lure that enchanted my mind to commit such espontaneous mistakes that opposed my principles.