JC Flashcards

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‘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

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Passion, I see, is catching, for mine eyes, Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine, Begin to water’

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anthony self-description

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‘plain, blunt man’

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most elizabeth-y bit of portia’s speech

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Set a huge mountain ‘tween my heart and tongue

I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might.

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caesar gets a bit jesus-y

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Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me, and we, like friends, will straightway go together

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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

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How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown?

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brutus masks/deceit/acting quote

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‘let not our looks put on our purposes’

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brutus friendship and death quote, ironic

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so are we Caesar’s friends that abridged His time of fearing death

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tilbury speech

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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

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Brutus quote sounds like willy

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‘It is easier to find men who volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience’

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