Question

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. a) who is the speaker? b) where is he at present? c) how does he try to prove that ceaser was not ambitious? d) in what tone does he call brutus 'an honourable man'?

Answer 1

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

90When 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

95I 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,

100But 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.

105My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me. (weeps)

Answer 2

a) Mark Antony is the speaker
b)He is standing at the town square in front of the people of Rome
c)By stating that even after offering. Caesar the crown 3 times Caesar still refused , thus showing that he was not at all ambitious or else he would have taken the crown at the first opportunity
d)He calls Brutus an ' honourable man' in a satirical/ mocking tone.
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