Caesar's Speech

Bryan Clark


 English II

 Allam

10 March 2011

                                      Julius Caesar and Friendship

What friendship does mean to me?  To me friendship means being able to trust and respect your friends.  Also, it means that your friends trust you and respect enough not to backstab you.  That both Brutus and I have different thoughts about what friendship means to them.  I think that my meaning of friendship is correct and that Brutus’s is wrong. 

            Brutus and I both have different views about friendship.  I think that friendship is being trustworthy, honest, and respectable to both your friends and yourself.  To Brutus friendship is taking power, control, and fixing things for people without them knowing about it.  Even though we have different opinions to the word friendship does not mean that either of us right about what it actual means we just said what means to us.   

In my eyes friendship means being able to trust someone.  Be trustworthy to your friends.  Helping your friends with all the problems that they have trouble with.  Also, respect your friends and they all will respect you.  To be honest with your friends if you did something wrong.  What friendship isn’t to Caesar is backstabbing someone and saying that it was for a different reason.  Physically, wronging or hurting your friend in more ways than one.  Doing something with your friend that will hurt them but will help you is some way.  That I have the way that a friend should be treated not the way that I was treated before my death.   

In Brutus’s eyes friendship is fixing your friends flaws for them without knowing.  Wanting them to act a certain way to help you look better to other people.  Taking advantage of your friends and using them to get what you want.  What friendship isn’t to Brutus is having too much power.  Having control over the people of Rome.  Doing things for your friends that should be left alone.  To Brutus friendship is different in his eyes than in mine.

My definition of friendship is correct and Brutus’s is wrong.  His is about taking power, control, and fixing things for your friends.  Mine is about being respectful, honest, and trustworthy.  I think that people would rather have my definition of friendship more than Brutus’s definition.