Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, good representation usually brings good government. This morning I spent over an hour and a half attempting to download information on William Shakespeare. There were 1,832 matches for the site. Mr. Speaker, I will now give an overview of William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The three villains in the play, Julius Caesar, are Cassius, Brutus and Anthony through the use of their rhetoric and deceitfulness. Cassius is the first character that really stands out as a villain. He uses his craftiness early on in the play to win Brutus to the conspirator's side. "If I have a veil, my look, I turn the trouble of my countenance merely upon myself". Brutus, Act I, scene II. Cassius is consumed with jealousy. His talent for rhetoric is displayed when Cassius goes to any means necessary to convince both the other conspirators and the crowd that Caesar was a totalitarian dictator. Another villain of Julius Caesar is Brutus. The only reason that Brutus fits into the category of a villain is because of the way he betrays a friend. Brutus could have handled Caesar his own way. He did not have to give in to the crowd, so instead of working out a solution himself, he gave into a solution that would yes, solve the problem but would take a man's life as pay out.
The last villain in Julius Caesar is Anthony. Anthony takes a severe turn for the worse after Caesar dies. While Caesar is alive, he is a very loyal and just to his friend who he appears to admire and respect, but when he sees the opening for power, he does a 180 degrees turn.
What epitomizes this is when he trades his cousin's life for an uncle. I do not believe that Julius Caesar had a snowball's chance in Hades to actually live the rest of his life. When he became that successful, he signed his own death warrant. The three villains who helped him sign that warrant were Cassius, Brutus and Anthony. All doing it for the good of Rome.
Mr. Speaker, my point, of course, is that the information highway and modern technology, the Minister of Education is hoping will replace books is a long way off. The same information, I just read out, would have taken me about five minutes using the tried and true Dewey Decimal system to find and research as facilitated by the regional local libraries and librarians who will not be there if the proposed layoffs and reductions continue. Et tu, Assembly? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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