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dogcrazy
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High School - 10th Grade

What are the props that Mark Antony uses in his funeral speech?

Please state Antony's intentions for each prop and how each single prop effects the crowd.

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Posted by dogcrazy on Sunday October 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM and tagged with funeral speech, mark antony, props.

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  1. pohnpei397 Teacher
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    In the "friends, Romans, countrymen" funeral oration, the main props that Marc Antony uses are Caesar's will, his body and his cloak.

    Antony's intent for all of these (an intent that is fulfilled) is to stir up the people of Rome against the men who assassinated Caesar.

    He uses the will to show what Caesar had left to the people of Rome -- that he has left money to all of them.

    He uses the cloak and the body to focus their attention upon the brutality that was done to Caesar -- while he does this, he describes all the details of the killing.

    Each of these things works to incite the crowd to a frenzy, which is ironic, because they had been just as excited by what Brutus had said just a little while before in justifying the killing of Caesar.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/julius-caesar/act-iii-scenes-2-3-su...

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    Posted by pohnpei397 on Sunday October 18, 2009 at 4:37 PM