But Caesar really loved Rome that anything happened in Rome good or bad affected him. Like Antony said “When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. In other words Antony is just saying that Caesar really loved and cared about Rome no matter what. Lastly in Act 3 Scene 2 Mark Antony has now seen the assassination of his dear beloved Caesar and he wants to say a speech at his funeral. But in order to do this he must get in the good graces of the conspirators; therefore Rome can know what happen to their beloved Caesar.
The passage begins with a speech given by Brutus to the conspirators, followed by the debate of involving Cicero in the conspiracy, and the dilemma of whether Marc Antony should be killed along with Caesar. Shakespeare uses dialogue and various figures of speech to bring out an emotional response in the audience. Brutus’s speeches show us the power of his words and how easily they can have an influence on the rest of the conspirators. He delivers a highly effective speech on why Romans like them must not take oaths, because the thought of the future state of Rome under Caesar’s tyrannical rule must motivate them to keep their word. He states that oaths are only for cowards and feeble old people, and people who cannot be trusted for they would otherwise have broken it.
This can let the audience see each character as something realistic and more human like. The theme within Oedipus which can be the “insights of human life,” can be depicted as what the play really means rather than what events occur such as the plot (Llucas). Music is the key towards emotional actions, which can set off a specific mood within an event. The rhythm within a play such as dialogue and vocalizations can present to an audience a specific mood or feelings among different characters. Sound effects are also used for music in order to make an experience come to life and to make the play seem realistic.
Antony’s eulogy to the plebeians is used as a device to show Antony’s opinion of Caesar as a noble and worthy leader and contradict Brutus’s tyrannical classification. Brutus revolves his speech around Caesar’s ambitions and their damage to Rome. Contrastingly, Antony repetitively presents the rhetorical question, “Was this ambition” to the audience which refutes the core of Brutus’s argument and encourages the audience to question Brutus, helping Antony build up imagery of a faultless Caesar brutally murdered. Furthermore, Antony repetitively directs the audience towards the body of the murdered Caesar stating “what a rent the envious Casca made”. While this device may be devalued in the textual format of the play, when performed in the theatrical environment with effective props, it is highly confronting to the audience and further directs the
Yet how is it that we are able to understand other people’s perspectives when they can be so far removed from our own? Composers, time and time again, draw upon their pivotal position of influence and manipulation over perspective to engage and enthrall their audience into understanding their own point of views. Compelling use of textual form can be seen in the timeless Shakespearean drama Julius Caesar as well as John Patrick Stanley’s provocative film Doubt that effectively empowers the audience to reach new and diverse perspectives. Although these texts may differ blatantly, the unique methods of textual form used by both composers effectively shape and mould our understanding of the complex notion of conflicting perspectives. Our perspectives of people are often reliant on other people’s own perspectives and opinions of someone.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is a honourable man. By this it shows that Antony is intelligent and has courage for he mocks Brutus and his accusations. And it shows how he can manipulate the crowd by telling of Caesars wonderful accomplishments. Antony then shows his anger towards the conspirators by getting the mob to release their anger by rioting and going out and killing the conspirators.
In the play Julius Caesar quite a few characters demonstrate some or all of these qualities, one of them being Mark Antony. As a leader Antony is manipulative and morally wrong, he exhibits poor and untrustworthy conduct and after Caesar's death he is blinded by rage and begins to make a reputation for himself, some of it good, some of it evil. After Caesar's death, Antony's character begins to undergo a dramatic change that is very new and very evident to the reader. It is first shown in Act three, scene two; Brutus has just given his speech, he has managed to get the audience all hyped up and angry towards the dead man Caesar, that is when the humble and dumb jock that is Mark Antony arrives. His hands stained from Caesar's blood, his face wet with tears.
So, he is a failure in life. Based on what transpires in the play, let us analyze in detail, the nature of Brutus’ character. The principal architect of the conspiracy is Cassius. He thinks of enlisting the support of Marcus Brutus to give leadership to the faction against Caesar. The reason for the choice is that Brutus has a high standing in the Roman society, and the people are more likely to listen to what he says.
According to the Freytag’s Pyramid structure of plot development, Act 3 constitutes the climax of the action of the play. The action in the given extract showcases the famous funeral oration rendered by Brutus and is his attempt to convince the Roman public that Caesar’s death was inevitable. The conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius had succeeded in killing Caesar in Act 3, Scene 1 of the play. As there was complete chaos and pandemonium among the people, following the brutal murder, the conspirators decided to address the crowds so as to calm them down and to justify to them their reasons for the rebellion, which were, “liberty, freedom and enfranchisement”. They did not want the people to think of them as cold blooded murderers.
This observation can be confirmed as factual as Shakespeare’s choice of words and sentence construction differ from the ordinary language. It is rather a mixture of both time periods. References made to “Apollo” and “Jupiter” links the play to the early English days of astrology and mythology while words such as “dukes” and “princes” presents the courtly world of English nobles. These references unique to King Lear allow the audience to have a grounded understanding of the historical backgrounds from which the play emerges enhancing the purpose of the unusual diction of the characters. In King Lear, Shakespeare successfully creates his own vocabulary and rules of grammar that assist in revealing the emotional intensity in the spoken words of a character.