Monday, April 13, 2009

Whither Brutus?

As a teacher, I love both the question and the conclusion of the following.


Student [Billy]: "So is Brutus a bad guy?"

Me: "That's a great question! Is he? He's trying to help Rome, but at the same time he is backstabbing his best friend."

Billy: "So he's kind of like a middletagonist."

1 comments:

Roughly Speaking... said...

I'm pretty sure my English professors in college never coined such an appropriate term, they just droned on about relativism and moral ambivalence. Nope -- middletagonist.