Question

In at least two to three paragraphs, write an essay where you analyze the tone the character Marullus uses to express his interpretation of Caesar's return. Then explain how this is similar or different from the interpretation the painter has depicted? Use specific examples to support your observations.

Answer 1

Can someone please guide me in the right direction. I didn't understand the play and just need a little guidement.

Answer 2

are you doing conflicting perspectives? or is it something else

Answer 3

This is the picture

Answer 4

FLAVIUS
But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?

Second Commoner
Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself
into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,
to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.

MARULLUS
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:
And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds
Made in her concave shores?
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers in his way
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!
Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.

This is the text

Answer 5

analyze the tone the character Marullus uses to express his interpretation of Caesar's return. Then explain how this is similar or different from the interpretation the painter has depicted? Use specific examples to support your observations. umm i guess you can talk about how marullus's perspective is contrasted against the plebians. talk about the context during the elizabethean? age fears about rising power (julius caesar represents this) and is depicted through marullus. make sure you talk about his tone and try and grab out the quotes that emphasize the point where he fears caesar's conquests (quotes like: knew you not pompey?)

Answer 6

So basically just talk about how Marullus's perspective was different than the rest of the Romans. And how Marullus fears that Caesar is going to gain authority and destroy the city. And then talk about the tone of the text compared to the tone of the picture

Answer 7

Right?

Answer 8

yeah, something amongst the lines but don't put in "caesar is going to gain authority and destroy the city" because the book doesn't reveal that. its too specific, be more subtle such as "marullus fears Caesar's growing power" and link it to pompey

Answer 9

Okay. Thanks