Friday, February 25, 2011

Julius Caesar, acting performance

The context of this passage is right after the conspiraters have killed Caesar. It is Antonies siligue to the aduince. saying how he will get revenge on Caesar's killers. The meaning in this passage is to show remorse for Caesar. Antony deos this by talking to the audience and it's makes you relize that the cospiraters killed him unjustly. It also shows that how Brutus pictures Caesar's death was false and they are not purgers but are butchers. Then at the end of the passage it gives forshadowing towards how Antony is going to revenge Caesar. This passage is in act three scene 1 line 254 through 275.

ANTONY
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial

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