Coriolanus Quotes

Question 1

First Citizen:
1.1
our
sufferance is a gain to them

Answer 1

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Question 2

First Citizen:
1.1
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne’er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain

Answer 2

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Question 3

MENENIUS
1.1 
‘Though all at once cannot
See what I do deliver out to each,
Yet I can make my audit up, that all
From me do back receive the flour of all,
And leave me but the bran.’

Answer 3

• stomach analogy

Question 4

Caius Martius
1.1
What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs?

Answer 4

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Question 5

Caius Martius
1.1
Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,
And let me use my sword, I’ll make a quarry
With thousands of these quarter’d slaves, as high
As I could pick my lance.

Answer 5

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Question 6

Caius Martius
1.1
They said they were an-hungry; sigh’d forth proverbs,
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only:

Answer 6

influence of his education

Question 7

Caius Martius
1.1 
I sin in envying his nobility,
And were I any thing but what I am,
I would wish me only he.

Answer 7

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Question 8

3.1
MENENIUS
Fie, fie, fie!
This is the way to kindle, not to quench.

MENENIUS
No, no, no! That’s the way to incite them further, not calm them down.

FIRST SENATOR
To unbuild the city and to lay all flat.

FIRST SENATOR
To destroy the city and tear all the buildings down.

SICINIUS
What is the city but the people?

Answer 8

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