![]() Antony calls the assassins “honourable men” but subtly turns the crowd against them. The best summary of this part of Antony’s speech? a. The purpose contributed to the significance of the speech in the play. Antony wanted the audience to revolt for him to seek revenge on Caesar’s brutal murder. The purpose of Antony’s speech was to show tribute to his friend Caesar in a eulogy and to revolt the audience. It also gets very dramatic as he talks about Caesar being killed. The purpose of his speech is to prove to the citizens that Brutus is wrong and Caesar shouldn’t have been killed. Marc Antony gives his speech at Caesar’s funeral to the citizens of Rome. ![]() His whole speech is filled with rhetorical devices that encourage the listeners to be on his side. The character is inviting those around him to listen to him. ![]() Metonymy is a figure of speech when one thing - usually an object or place - is used to describe something larger than itself.įriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears is a famous line from a speech in the play Julius Caesar. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” In this familiar Shakespearean line from the play “Julius Caesar,” Mark Anthony was not asking if he could literally borrow ears. All you smart people will know it is from Shakespeare but I shall now tell you more (than you ever wanted to know). Lets also look at the ‘friends, Romans, country men phrase that began the title of this blog. Either that or nothing at all, which might even be worse Today MUST be funny as I have been full of such earnestness, soberness and humorless words for days and days. There are a great deal of grim, dour, grave and gravitas happenings going on in the world around us but as you shall learn there has to be a mixture or no one will listen to either. Sushma Swaraj: I will make an end of my dinner there’s pippins and cheese to come.First of all let us look at seriousness which is, earnestness, graveness, gravity, gravitas, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sternness, grimness, dourness, humorlessness solemnity, thoughtfulness, preoccupation, pensiveness… Instead you shall have cheerfulness and joviality. Nitish Kumar: Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. Sitaram Yechury: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.Īrun Jaitley: This is very midsummer madness. Mamata Banerjee: You speak an infinite deal of nothing. Venkaiah Naidu: More of your conversation would infect my brain. Rahul Gandhi: Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used. Modi: Drink sir, is a great provoker of three things….nose painting, sleep and urine.Īrvind Kejriwal: Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? ![]() Shashi Tharoor: I would give all my fame for a pot of ale. Lalu Prasad: Unquiet meals make ill digestions. Sharad Pawar: Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. Smriti Irani: Educated men are so impressive!Ĭhidambaram: The hour that fools should ask. Manmohan Singh: How every fool can play upon a word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. Mulayam Singh: Though she be but little, she is fierce. READ: How well do you know William Shakespeare? Find out with this quiz Mamata Banerjee: Make the doors upon a woman’s wit and it will out at the casement shut that and ‘twill out at the key-hole stop that, ‘twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. Jayalalithaa: There’s daggers in men’s smiles.Ĭhidambaram: A man cannot make him laugh - but that’s no marvel he drinks no wine. Modi: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Jayalalithaa: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Rahul Gandhi: Why, but there’s many a man hath more hair than wit.Īmit Shah: He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. READ: 400 years since Shakespeare: Looking beyond Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet Rajnath Singh: Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement?Īdvani: Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts and what he has scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. Modi: I must to the barber’s, monsieur for methinks, I am marvellous hairy about the face.Īmit Shah: Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. Since 89% of the Indians polled by the British Council survey said they liked Shakespeare, an unreliable source reported this conversation at an alleged all-party dinner held yesterday to commemorate Shakespeare’s birthday and the 400th anniversary of his death: (Washington Post, 20 April: Indians, not Brits, are Shakespeare’s biggest fans, survey finds) Age cannot wither him, nor custom stale his infinite variety
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