echo word: spirited, determined
TS: everyone and everything has strengths and weaknesses thats part of what makes people human
SD: in Julius Caesar, most characters have great strength
CM: most characters in the play have great strengths
CM: both sexes have strength and it is distributed equally
SD: for example, Brutus
CM: he has decided to stand up for his people even though it could get him killed
CM: even though Caesar is a friend, he decided to do what is considered the greater good
SD: another spirited character is Portia
CM: she does not let the fact that she is a woman get in the way
CM: she demands to know what Brutus is hiding from her and does not hesitate to talk back to him
CS: each character in the play has strength in different shapes and forms
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English 9
Mr. H. Salsich
April 19
Serious Strength:
An Essay on Strength in Julius Caesar
When I think about strength, I think about many different things. The first thing that pops into my head however, is physical strength, but I quickly realized that that is not the only type of strength there is. Another form of strength, which shows up often in Shakespear's Julius Caesar, is having strength within. In the play many of the characters show inner strength, and I hope that one day I too have that intensity of spirit.
Everyone and everything have strengths and weaknesses, without them we would not be human. For some, for example the characters in Julius Caesar, their strengths are more pronounced. Most of the characters in the play have extraordinary strengths and not many weaknesses. Shakespeare distributes the determination evenly between men and women. One example of a character filled with fortitude is Brutus. He has decided to stand up for his people even though it could possibly put him at risk of getting killed. Even though Caesar is a friend, Brutus decided to go with what is considered the greater good. Another character with the "strength of spirit" is Portia, Brutus' wife. She does not let the fact that she is a woman get in her way. She vigorously inquires that her husband tells her the truth when she notices him acting suspicious, secretly staying up late, concealing lots of information from her, and she does not hesitate to talk back to him. Each character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is strong in their own special and spirited way.
We can have strong muscles, like biceps and triceps, but the only kind of strength that really matters is much deeper than that. Strength is what drives you and gives you power. Although everyone's strengths and weaknesses vary, we all have something in us that gives us the potential to do anything. Just like in Julius Caesar, everyone today has inner strength whether they know it or not.
Self-Assessment:
1) An issue that I am continuing to work on is making my sentences longer. I noticed that my paragraphs fulfill the 11-sentence formula, but they do not look very long because of my sentence length.
2) I think strong a point in this essay is my opening paragraph. I think I did a nice job opening up into the topic that I was going to pursue in this essay.
3) A weak point in this essay would be my closing paragraph. I had a hard time deciding on what to say to close up my essay.
4) I would give myself a B+ on this essay.
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