Theme Quotes Flashcards
Honour, Loyalty and Betrayal
Caesar to Antony
‘You have broken the article of your oath, which you shall never have tongue to charge me with.’
- Antony is not fulfilling his duties.
Love, Pleasure and Decadence
‘Nay, but this dotage of our general’s overflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, That o’er the files and musters of the war Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn/ To cool a gipsy’s lust.’
Strategy, Manipulation and Power
‘See where he is, who’s with him, what he does: I did not send you, if you find him sad, say I am dancing, If in mirth report That I am sudden sick, quick and return.’
Gender Roles
‘This is the news: he fishes, drinks and wastes The lamps of night in revel, is not more manlike Then Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy More womanly then he.’
