#but they DID keep this scene and like young cato just came on full of desperate anger. yelled this and then died

[catilinas]

tfw your last words in the play are low-key in the format of an epitaph

#thinking abt the highschool production of julius caesar where This scene got to me the post. in the whole play #possibly because iirc portia’s ‘i grant i am a woman’ lines that mention cato were cut or modified? #bcs brutus was Also a woman so. they didn’t make as much sense. and idk if brutus’ cato namedrop was in there either #but they DID keep this scene and like young cato just came on full of desperate anger. yelled this and then died #and You The Audience are like. who the fuck was THAT. idk if the og audiences of jc would be more familiar with who cato the younger was #but nowadays. probably most people Do Not Know. which makes young cato’s attempt to embed that memory of cato and himself into the scene of #his death super extra tragic because you get the name!!! but none of what it Means #like an inflection of pompey’s ghost of a great name. #wait fuck this is just the word that causes death’s defeat again #the knowledge of the possibility of words to memorialise standing in place of the knowledge of what they actually memorialise #ANYWAY. i think it’s extra interesting that young cato is talking like a tombstone when MARCIA in pharsalia book 2 Also does that #when her argument for the Goth Anti-Wedding is that she has already picked out matching tombstones for herself and cato #and she was of course young cato’s stepmother!!!!!! #i think all of this should have been in the body of the post. whoops. #wait also. insane that he says we will proclaim his own name and then. doesn’t. ok sure he has the same name as his father #but he frames it as his father’s name and not his own. hrgh. this is soooooo lucancore #julius caesar #cato the youngest #beeps