In caesars funeral antony said that ambition was controling caesars life. In many occassions antony said that brutus was an honarable man and that caesar was ambitious. “If it were so, it was a grevious fault, and grievously hath caesar answer’d it.” Antony is saying that this was a terrible mistake by caesar and it cost him his life. Antony also said that he was there to bury caesar not to praise him. In my opinion the last phrase was one of the most significant in the whole speech.”My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.” This phrase changes my view of the whole speech because at the begginnig he was saying all the bad things about caesar but at the end he showed how much he actually appreciated caesar.
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February 3, 2016 at 3:59 pm
Juan,
I’m really pleased with the way that you have used several quotations to help support your point; you have embedded them swiftly.
Think carefully about Antony’s soliloquy and how Shakespeare may have been trying to create dramatic irony – do we beleive Antony when he says that Shakespeare was ‘too ambitious’ – or might he have another motive for using this language?