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प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:
"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it."
(a) Who is the speaker? Who are 'you'?
(b) How did Caesar pay for being ambitious?
(c) What argument did the speaker give to show that Brutus was wrong in his judgement of Caesar?
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उत्तर
(a) The speaker is Antony. ‘you’ denotes the citizens of Rome.
(b) Caesar was assassinated by the conspirators for being ambitious.
(c) To argue that Brutus was wrong in his judgement of Caesar, Antony reminds the Roman citizens how Caesar brought many captives to Rome so that ransom could be earned to control the financial situation of the people. He reminds them how Caesar had wept when the poor have cried. Antony also tells them that he himself presented the crown to Caesar thrice, but Caesar refused. He then shows the crowd Caesar's will, in which he had granted every Roman citizen seventy-five drachmas and land.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Good countrymen, let me depart alone,
And, for my sake, stay here with Antony
i. Identify the speaker of the above lines.
ii. When and where were the above lines spoken?
iii. Bring out the irony in the above extract.
What did Caesar leave for the Romans in his will?
How does Caesar sound when he says, “Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight”?
Identify Antony’s tone when he calls the conspirators, ‘honourable men’.
Answer the following question briefly.
What are the arguments put forward by Decius Brutus to convince Caesar to go to the Capitol?
Answer the following question briefly.
Whom does Antony call 'the choice and master spirits of this age"? Why?
Answer the following question briefly.
When he is left alone with the body of Caesar what does Anthony call Brutus and the others?
Answer the following question briefly.
Why is Antony's speech more effective?
What opinion do you form of Calpurnia from the play ‘Julius Caesar’ ?
Read the given excerpt and answer the questions briefly.
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ANTONY: If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. |
- How does Antony use visual imagery to make his point about the assassination of Caesar? (1)
- What is the significance of the mantle that Antony refers to in his speech? (1)
- Identify the tone of Antony's statement when he says, "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now". (1)
- What does Antony's reference to the Nervii suggest about Caesar's military prowess? (1)
