This dream is all amiss interpreted;
It was a vision fair and fortunate.
Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,
In which so many smiling Romans bathed,
Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
Reviving blood, and that great men shall press
For tin
Decius
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! (& significance)
Antony (emphasizes friendship over patriotism)
Shall Rome, &c." Thus must I piece it out.
Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome? (& significance)
Brutus (reading Cassius forged letter)
I think it is not meet
Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,
Should outlive Caesar. We shall find of him
A shrewd contriver; and you know his means,
If he improve them, may well stretch so far
As to annoy us all, which to prevent,
Let Antony and Caesar
Cassius
And for Mark Antony, think not of him,
For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
When Caesar's head is off.
Brutus
I have made strong proof of my constancy,
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here in the thigh.
Portia
Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,
I have not slept
Brutus (whet = to sharpen a weapon)
...as I slew my best lover
For the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,
When it shall please my country to need my death.
(& significance)
Brutus (shows his honor)
There shall I try,
In my oration, how the people take
The cruel issue of these bloody men,
According to the which thou shalt discourse
To young Octavius of the state of things.
Antony
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,
And in the spirit of men there is no blood.
O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,
And not dismember Casear! (& significance)
Brutus (talking to Cassius and company, this shows that they want to kill the spirit of Caesar, not the man, also proves Brutus honorable in that he wants to kill Caesar for the good of Rome)
What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
(& significance)
Caesar (not actually this brave)
If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live;
If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
Artemidorus
Am I yourself
But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure?
Portia
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man. (& significance)
Antony (says this in is speech, this is repetition and shows sarcasm that he doesn't really mean it, uses examples to say how he wasn't ambitious, has to say it in sarcasm because he promised Cassius he would not speak bad, Antony has to prove Brutus not
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. (& significance)
Calpurnia (says this to Caesar when he wants but doesn't want to die, comets = omens {lions, thunderstorm, owl at noon day})
What Antony shall speak, I will protest
He speaks by leave and by permission,
And that we are contented Caesar shall
Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies.
It shall advantage more than do us wrong.
Brutus
Et tu, Brute?
Caesar
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. (& significance)
Antony (says this in his speech to the plebeians for the purpose to start a civil war and he needs the commoners on his side, arguing that Caesar's death affects everyone , he uses a sense of friendship to prove a stronger relationship and to show trust,
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I love Rome
more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves,
than that Caesar were dead to live all freemen?
Brutus
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times (& significance)
Antony (wants revenge to make up for the lost of his friend, right after the pretends to get close to the conspirators)
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Caesar
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament. (& significance)
Caesar (constant - he is stubborn however he is not immortal, he dies after this)
You know not what you do. Do not consent
That Antony speak in his funeral.
Know you how much the people may be moved
By that which he will utter?
Cassius