What does Antony say in this excerpt from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar to portray himself as a patriot?
ANTONY
The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? (3.2.87-100)
Group of answer choices
Antony insults Brutus and explains how Brutus is actually the evil one.
Antony points out that Caesar can’t be ambitious if he wept with the poor and turned down the crown three times.
Antony insists that Brutus was much more immoral than Caesar ever was.
Antony shows all of Caesar’s stab wounds in this speech, which spurs the Plebians to mutiny.