Thursday, February 18, 2010

CEASAR Acting

This is the scene when Antony asked Brutus if he was allowed to have a burial ceremony at the market place, and Brutus allowed it. My part is when Antony gives his long speech. He gives them respect unlike Brutus. Antony was not commanding and dumb, he asked the people to hear and also he did not changed how he talked, he talked in a normal sentence while Antony spoke in a high authorite way.

Antony's speech is signifacant. This passage is signifacant because first, this is the part where Brutus and Antony talks to get the people onto their side so that they can get the people to do what they want. Second, Antony uses verses and high vocab to talk when he was giving the speech, this tells that Brutus changed how he talked. In addition, he used a paragraph and used low vocabulary to make the people trust. Lastly, this tells in the end, who would win the arguement and defeats the conspirators. In a nutshell, this part is signifacant because first, Brutus and Antony tries to get the people on each others side, he uses high vocab and verses to get people interested, lastly, he spole in a high authoritive way.

(Act 3 Scene 2 lines 71-105)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—
For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men—
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me.
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me.
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

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