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alison-love
alison-love
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High School - 10th Grade

What would be 5 adjectives to describe Mark Antony?

I'm doing a charatcer analysis on Mark Antony and I'm looking for the line when Caesar states something along the lines of the fact that Antony "revels in o'l nights" or something, basically saying he likes to party.

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Posted by alison-love on Thursday May 14, 2009 at 1:59 PM and tagged with caesar, characters, description, julius caesar, mark antony.

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  1. ivysarkar
    ivysarkar Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    Characterisation of Antony in Julius Caesar is a marvel in itself. He is not only a masker or reveller as  was considered by Julius Caesar. He was a great schemer or plotter.Guided by his practical wisdom,he  enters into an apparent compromise with the conspirators only to turn the table against them. Secondly, Antony was a great orator as through his tactful funeral speech he could turn the roman mob to mutiny. Thirdly, he was unscrupulous as is revealed from Act iv. sc i of the play.He plans to tamper the will of Caesar in order to devoid the roman people of their rightful claims.A deeper insight would also prove him to be greedy. In Act iv. sci, Antony speaks of driving away Lepidus as soon as their task is over and thinks that lepidus should not be allowed to rule one third of the world.Thus he wishes to share the power between two( himself and Octavius Caesar). Finally he was also hypocritical. He takes the opinion of Lepidus to mark the names in the proscription but calls him 'an unmeritable man', 'an ass' and a 'horse' as soon as his back is turned

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    Posted by ivysarkar on Thursday May 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM