Question

Mark Antony cleverly appeals to their sentiments and sways the citizens’ feelings in favour of Caesar when he says ______.

Options

• ‘O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts/And men have lost their reason’

• ‘I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke’

• ‘But here I am to speak what I do know’

• ‘And Brutus is an honourable man’

Answer 1

Mark Antony cleverly appeals to their sentiments and sways the citizens’ feelings in favour of Caesar when he says ‘And Brutus is an honourable man’.

Explanation:

The repeated statement ‘Brutus is an honourable man’ is an example of verbal irony. Antony’s repetition gradually makes the citizens doubt Brutus’s honour. It shifts their sympathy away from the conspirators and back towards Caesar.