Next he appealed to their freedom by stating "Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead and live all free men?" ... This really hit home with the people because it made the inference that Caesar wanted to be King and Romans didn't like Kings at this period of history because of a past corrupt, tyrant king named, Tarquinus Superbus. ... This revealed that the most ruthless wound of all was from Brutus. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He describes Antony's generosity and how popular he was with his men, and cuts out suggestions of Cleopatra's disloyalty. ... Then comes another move, to kings and princes and servants wearing his livery, and finally a cosmic image of liberality, "realms and islands" carelessly dropped, like coins from his pocket. ... Also, in Act I Scene V, Cleopatra recalls the great men who have been her lovers (lines 30-35). To "stand," "grow" and "die" all suggest sexual arousal. However, Antony is her man of men, and there is a passionate intensity in her vision of him. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Later, two of Caesar's best men, Marcus Brutus and Cassius, converse expressing their disbelief in their kings ability to do his job. ... As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork." ... ANTONY (on Brutus) "This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. ... The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks; They are all fire, and every one doth shine; But there's but one in all doth hold his p...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School