Julius Caesar Ted Talk Analysis

One assignment that I took extra interest in was obviously the Ted Talks. I wasn’t intrigued because it came easily to me, but the contrary. It was such a struggle in the beginning because I was writing about trying to be meaningful, and --ironically- I could not figure out if my words were meaningful enough. Moreover, my Ted Talk was also about trying to accept mistakes and not be afraid of “failure” in order to find a way to be meaningful/happy; however, the reason I chose this topic was because it was something I was wrestling with at that moment, so in the matter of writing this I was trying to coach myself as well. I really had wanted to find a way to help the people around me - or maybe just provide the words that they didn’t know they needed to hear - as they had done for me so many times before. After MANY rewrites [I think I have 5 different drafts from a one-week period], I finally put together something coherent and relatable, but I only got there after I worked with everyone had …show more content…
We did it with Never Let Me Go, Frankenstein, Beowulf, King Lear, and Julius Caesar. You always let us take the conversation where we wanted it to go, and let us learn more and more about the world and ourselves each day. What we realized is all we had to do to achieve this was ask different questions and listen for the clues to form an answer.
In Julius Caesar, we had one activity where we were to make a eulogy by one main character for a different main character. I chose to have Cassius eulogize Brutus. This activity let me challenge my ability to read characters - therefore how to read people. We had to understand someone else's voice and know how to use it while staying true to the core. This is a lesson that we must use in life too; whether someone is a doctor trying to understand a patient or a politician trying to understand the citizens, we need to be able to understand and represent/advocate for someone else's