JC Flashcards
‘o Caesar’ servant draws from Anthony direct and sympathetic feeling, strikingly absent until now, and doing much to fix an audience on Anthony’s side
Passion, I see, is catching, for mine eyes, Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine, Begin to water’
anthony self-description
‘plain, blunt man’
most elizabeth-y bit of portia’s speech
Set a huge mountain ‘tween my heart and tongue
I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might.
caesar gets a bit jesus-y
Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me, and we, like friends, will straightway go together
Cassius says this like it is a glorious thing, but conversely if theirs is a bloody act, this makes their actions fixed in fearfulness in infinite repetition; in uncountable ages future countries and unknown languages. The fact that this repetition is one in which the reader is involved lends to a n effect of dizziness, appropriate to the sudden brutality
How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown?
brutus masks/deceit/acting quote
‘let not our looks put on our purposes’
brutus friendship and death quote, ironic
so are we Caesar’s friends that abridged His time of fearing death
tilbury speech
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England to
Brutus quote sounds like willy
‘It is easier to find men who volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience’