Month: November 2015

What is anthony ‘ intentions?
How does this affect the rest of the play?

I believe anthony’ intentions are that he is going to get revenge for ceasar death. I believe this as anthony says “Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood.” I interpret this as anthony saying pain will come to the conspirator who spilled the blood of caesar. I think this because woe means sorrow and when someone is in sorrow it means they are in great pain. Also, the costly blood I believe it means it is ceasar blood so this is why I believe the quote ” woe to the hand that she’d this costly blood” means pain will come to the conspirators who had the blood of ceasar on there hands.

The quote ” woe to the hand that she’d this costly blood” also sounds like anthony is saying that great sorrow will come to the hand that shed ceasar’ blood. Anthony is giving the woe personification. It is giving the word woe a human feeling, anthony is saying woe as the feeling sorrow.

I believe that in anthony’ soliloquy that anthony it trying to say he is sorry for shaking the hands of the men who killed the man who said he was his right hand.

Also,in this soliloquy anthony wants to express that he is in pain as he is sad for the death of ceasar because in the play before ac 3 sc 1 ceasar had called anthony his right

How does shakespeare build tension and play with the idea of fate?

Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to build tension because the Julius Ceasar had been made hundreds of years after the story of Julius Ceasar so most of the audience knew about the story of Julius Ceasar and his death. The audience knew about ceasar dieing on the ides of narch. When the soothsayer came out saying “beware the ides of march” this made sense of the play. This made most of the audience members clear about ceasar dieing soon. With the conspirator coming into the play it is completely known to everyone that in the middle of the play ceasar will die.

Shakespeare uses figurative language to build up tension because in act 2 sc 2 calpurnia spoke about bad omes. Also, Ceasar’s wife, the day before the ides of March, had a bad dream about Ceasar getting killed on the ides of March. Calpurnia then says “When beggars die there are no comets seen, The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” This shows that Ceasar will surely die soon because there has been meteors spoke about by brutus earlier in the play. When calpurnia says these lines it shown that the meteroes are a bad omen.

Shakespeare uses pathetic fallacy as he has used meteros to show that Ceasar is going die soon. This shows the emotion anger because meteros are bright red and brightly burn, people who are angry are bright red and burn off that anger. The meteors are a way of shakespeare using pathetic fallacy to show that someone or something is angry and is metaphorically raining meteors to show anger in Julius Ceasar.