Act3.2; you have to love it. There should be a law saying that you must love J.C.3.2. Okay, maybe not, and I can just hear you guys saying, (in high-pitched whiny voices I always use to quote you) "I don't love Caesar, I hate it! So there! Wah-wah-wah..."
How can you beat the speeches at Caesar's funeral? Brutus is wonderful at explaining why they killed Caesar. (Whose speech do we not get to hear, however?) But Antony pretty much kicks butt on the whole speech thing...
But who is this new Antony? Antony ..."That revels long-a-nights,.." ? Antony, "When Caesar says "Do this," it is performed."? Antony "For he can do no more than Caesar's arm/When Caesar's head is off."? What happened to this partying, if Caesar says jump, you ask how high, I can't think for myself without Caesar- Antony? That guy is gone. I mean, gone, gone. We get brand-spankin' new Antony, all shiny with rhetoric and revenge... I think the conspirators made a little blunder on that one, don't you?
JC 3.2
1. What reasons does Brutus give for killing Caesar?
2. How are Brutus’ rhetorical questions (l.28-33) an effective use of semantics to persuade the Romans in believing his reasons were just? (Why doesn’t anyone speak up?)
3. After Brutus is done speaking, how does the crowd react to him?
4. What are Antony’s examples of Caesar’s “ambition”?
5. As Antony repeats the line, “And Brutus is an honorable man”, what happens to the tone in which he says it? What happens to Brutus’ and the conspirator’s honor?
6. On l.105, Antony says, “Bear with me:
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar
And I must pause till it come back to me.
What do you think Antony is doing on stage? How would he say these lines, and how would the actor be positioned?
7. What does Antony use to get and maintain the Romans’ attention? Why do you think he doesn’t read it right away? What is one of Antony’s reasons for not reading it right away?
8. What irony can you find in these lines spoken by Antony:
216 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts;
I am no orator, as Brutus is……
221 For I have neither writ, nor words, nor worth,
Action, no utterance, nor the power of speech
To stir men’s blood; I only speak right on.
9. According to Antony, what has Caesar willed to the people of Rome?
10. If not the wounds that have killed Caesar, then what did according to Antony? (l. 165-197)
11. Does Antony intend to make the people munity? How do you know? (Give me a specific line at the end of this scene.)
E.C.
l.43..."....With this I depart, that, as I slew
my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same
dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to
need my death"
How is Brutus' monologue written differently when compared to Antony's monologue?
What essentially is Brutus saying here?
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It is different because he is saying that if it came down to it he would take his life to say Rome. In Antony speech he was says how Caesar was being ambitious.
Good Evening, Ms. Pina. I'm am going to take a stab (haha, no pun intended, sorry Caesar) at the extra credit.
Brutus is saying that he would just as soon kill himself or be killed if he weren't what was right for Rome, for his country. There is nobody as dedicated to their country as Brutus. And in his monologue, though he is trying to convince the people that the killing of Caesar was just, he is still stressing the importance that Rome holds for him. The goal of Antony's monologue is different, because he is outraged at Caesar's death. He wants revenge for what the conspirators did to Caesar. It appears to me as if Antony's monologue was more malicious and manipulative in a different way. Brutus does manipulate the people in his monologue, and though he was pretty much convinced to kill Caesar in the first place, I still believe he isn't the type of person who would seek revenge. Antony uses manipulation against Brutus and the conspirators, while Brutus uses it for what he thinks is the well being for his country.
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Brutus' monologue is more calm and collected. Antony's is more strong and outspoken. Brutus is saying that he did what he did for the good of Rome. He would kill himself if that's what would be good for Rome.
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