The Powerful Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth, intelligent, witty, and to the point. As one can see from these letters that Elizabeth was able to express herself at any age. She is aware of the power that she holds and is not afraid to use it. She has the world at the palm of her hand.

Although at times is hard to understand, and we just want her to get to the point, she completely honest in how she is feeling. When addressing people, she is both direct and indirect. At times she approaches people in a way that she does not want them to fell as if she is stepping on there toes (with her brother and sister). She is always aware of her position of power in a situation and approaches these them in the correct manner.

This is a nice change to actually see information from a historical character, from there view. These letters let us see inside of Elizabeth’s mind. To see her sass to Mary Queen of Scots, but her calm approach to King Edward.

From reading a wide range of letters from before her time on the throne and also during many years of her reign, we are able to see the progression of Elizabeth growing as a leader of England.

Why Julius Caesar?

We finished Shakespeare, we did it! However, I do have to say Shakespeare was a walk in the park after reading Plutarch.

                                      

I like the dialogue between the characters, it gave the plot more depth and understanding. Also since my preferred media is audio I was able to listen. The sassiness in Act 4 was pretty funny, from a person that wants to be a leader a Rome is acting like a little kid.At the end of the day you need to man up if you want to rule in the future and bragging about what you have done to certain people will only weaken you. Now let’s talk about the ghost, we all knew it was coming, would it be a Shakespeare if there was not a ghost, I feel like the play wouldn’t be complete. 

                                          

This may be just me but I still don’t understand, why the play is called Julius Caesar, why not Marcus Brutus? I mean when you think of it the play doesn’t end when Caesar is killed. There are at least a good two and a half acts after Cesar’s death. I feel as if this whole play is about all the life choices that Brutus makes in his almost rise to leader of Rome.