I Julius Ceasar to boring for 8th or 9th graders?

Question

Please explain why and name other titles and why they would be inapropiate.

Look im not saying I dont want to read it I was just wondering okay so mabye you should just answer the question instead of just trying to get 2 points and be a smart A**



P.S I did not change it because it a small mistake and I can live with it.


P.S.S Everyone who has answer seriously thanks.

Answer 1

hey guys -
blame me, not him. He asked a really good question about a different play yesterday and I'm the one who told him Julius Ceaser was dead boring.

I have been a Shakespeare nut since I was 8 yrs old (not 8th grade, 8 yrs ie; 3rd grade) and started reading the plays on my own in 3rd-4th grade. I used to act out the Witches from Macbeth in the back of the Science classroom with my friend katie when we thought the teacher wasn't looking. (we'd recite bubble, bubble toil and trouble while doing a lab.) I brought a complete compendium of Shakespeare with me to camp and I made my mom and friends take me to Shakespeare plays and outdoor shakespeare festivals. One of my friends and I spent months choreographing our own "midsummer night's dream" ballet.

And then, in 10th grade, I was assigned Julius Caeser and I remember thinking "how can this be so BORING when everything else this guy wrote is so good?" I kept waiting for it to get interesting, and it never did.

If the point of Huey's questions are, in essence - which play will be both understandable and a great gateway to a lifelong love of Shakespeare - than why on earth would anyone want to start a group of 8th graders - 13 yr olds - with Julius Caeser? I remember very clearly that everyone in my (honors) english class thought it was about as thrilling as brussel sprouts for supper. I think to be superior and to say "well, you are at fault for not being mature enough to appreciate all of it's nuances right off the bat in Middle School" is to forget who you were and how your mind worked as a young adolescent. Read JC when you are older - it's glory is oratory and political allegory, neither of which seem at all relatable to this age group.


There is a great note about this in Norrie Epstein's "The Friendly Shakespeare" which I'm going to go ahead and quote below.

Answer 2

Is it Shakespeare's best? No, is it boring? BY NO MEANS!!!
Plenty of blood, people making others believe whatever they like by just talking to them, and the moral paradox of committing murder because someone MIGHT turn into a bad leader!
Sure the language is difficult, and 8th and 9th graders might not be able to understand it all. However, this is one of my FAVORITE plays of all time. By the way it's only boring if you make it boring.

Answer 3

Only for boring 8th and 9th graders - for all others, it's a great play

Answer 4

I agree! We had to read it in 8th grade, and I didnt understand a thing they were saying. The language is even hard for me to understand now, and I'm a senior

Answer 5

Bored the crap out of me then, but now that I'm almost thirty, I find it fascinating.

It's more appropriate for college students, I think. They're more at an age where they can appreciate it.

Answer 6

Its called learning..............

You might think that it is boring, but you may run the risk of becoming educated if you read and study it.

For instance, you may even be able to construct a sentence properly and spell "too" correctly !

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Oooh - tetchy and no sense of humour either !

By the way - you got "inappropriate" wrong as well, but I was "too" nice to mention it first time round. ha, ha

Answer 7

I liked it!