Alright, so the title doesn’t look so good. Unfortunately, these are some of the things that a man by the name of Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger has done in his life.
Without context, this seems pretty random, right? Well it absolutely is, so I’m going to explain what I’m doing with these facts about Marcus Brutus.
Recently, we PLP people have been transitioning from making quilts about the fictional heroes and civilizations we made (down below) to plays made by Shakespeare and the characters involved in his plays.
To start off our new subject in PLP, we were assigned to certain groups, and in those certain groups, we were assigned someone involved in the play, Caesar, to make something similar to an autobiography about the person we were assigned and present it to the class. In my group’s case, we got Marcus Brutus.
To get a little more in-depth with the autobiography we had to make, we actually had to make a paper cut-out of him and add important facts about him. The catch about the facts was that we needed to make the facts metaphorical by drawing it on our paper cut-out and explain it to the class during the presentation.
Because information about him was an obvious necessity for the auto-biography, we started out by making a Google Doc which was shared with the group. We compiled as much information as we could in the time-frame that we had.
The next day, we started on actually making the paper cut-out. We basically made Robbie lay down on a massive sheet of paper and moved him in a position that looked like he was holding a knife. The knife will be explained in a bit…
We then traced Robbie out and cut his outline out. We then drew on as many metaphorical facts as we could.
The first fact that we thought about putting on the cut-out was the little ring on right side of the picture. The ring represents Marcus Brutus divorcing his wife so he could marry his cousin. 
Next, we drew out a broken heart that has the word “Betrayer” in the middle. This represents Marcus and his role in the assassination of his personal friend, Julius Caesar.
The next fact that we drew on was the belt that Marcus is wearing on the cut-out. The little picture in the middle represents how he fled the Battle of Philipi with around four legions after knowing he and his army would be captured after their defeat. We originally planned on putting that drawing somewhere on his legs because it relates to him “running” away from battle, but we couldn’t find any good spots, so we came up with the closest spot to the legs which was the belt.
It may be hard to notice, but another fact was drawn next to the broken heart. It says, “#1 Nephew” because Marcus Brutus was adopted by his uncle after his dad died.
Our second to last fact that was drawn on was technically cut and pasted onto the cut-out’s head is a crown that has the word “gorvernor” on it. This is because Julius Caesar considered Marcus Brutus as a friend and made him governor of Cisalpine.
Our last and probably most important fact is the knife that our cut-out of Marcus Brutus is holding to his neck. This symbolizes his suicide after the second battle of Philipi on October, 42 BC.
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I really enjoyed this brief project about Marcus Brutus and his life. There are a lot of interesting things about him and studying his life was really educational.
I learned a lot so far about Marcus Brutus and am looking foward to seeing how he is represented in Shakespeare’s play.
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