Question

Antony: O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! a) Where is Antony at this time? (1) b) Why does Antony call Caesar’s body ‘thou bleeding piece of earth’? (2) c) How and when had Antony been ‘meek and gentle with these butchers’?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

a) Antony is at the senate

b) Antony is meek and gentle as he wants to know the attitude of conspirators and at the same time get a chance to take revenge by speaking at pulpit

c)Antony had been meek and gentle by calling conspirators great and the master spirits of the age  . He submitted to them .He was gentle until he was left alone with caesars body