Antony’s lines from Act III, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is often interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Has told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously has Caesar answered it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He has brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When the poor have cried, Caesar has wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! you are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
(Adaptado de: SHAKESPEARE, W. The Life and Death of Julius Caesar. Disponível em:
Considere as seguintes afirmações acerca do texto.
I. Antony dissimula seu propósito ao longo de sua fala.
II. Os prisioneiros romanos foram enviados de volta para Roma.
III. Antony, em discurso indireto, questiona a veracidade das asserções de Brutus
(l. 05-06, 14, 21 e 26).
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