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Mark Antony's Speech Analysis

1) Mark Antony addresses the crowd at Caesar's funeral, saying he has come to bury Caesar, not praise him. 2) He acknowledges Brutus' claim that Caesar was ambitious but questions if his actions truly demonstrated ambition. 3) Antony emphasizes that Brutus is an honorable man in order to sow doubt in the crowd about Brutus' true motives for killing Caesar.

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Mark Antony's Speech Analysis

1) Mark Antony addresses the crowd at Caesar's funeral, saying he has come to bury Caesar, not praise him. 2) He acknowledges Brutus' claim that Caesar was ambitious but questions if his actions truly demonstrated ambition. 3) Antony emphasizes that Brutus is an honorable man in order to sow doubt in the crowd about Brutus' true motives for killing Caesar.

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From: Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare

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 interred 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 answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable 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 honourable 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 honourable 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 honourable 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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