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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :But speak all good you can devise of Caesar, And say you do it by our permission; (a) Identify the speaker. (b) Who is being granted permission ? (c) What is the speaker afraid of ? (d) What opinion do you form of the speaker ? |
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Answer» (a) The speaker is Marcus Brutus. (b) Mark Antony is being given permission. (c) The speaker is afraid of Mark Antony's oratory skills as the might convince the mob and turn them against the conspirators. (d) Marcus Brutus was an idealist and true patriot but he was a poor judge of people and situations as well. He could not judge Antony's motive for taking Caesar's body to the pulpit. |
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