Question

Read the excerpt from Act III of Julius Caesar.

Antony: (To dead Caesar, with grief) 0, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers. Thou art the ruins of the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times.

(Looking after the murderers, he shakes his fist at them in fury.) Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! A curse shall light upon the limbs of men. (He points to Caesar, whose ghost will rise.) And Cae­sar's spirit, ranging for revenge, come hot from Hell, shall in these confines with a monarch's voice cry, "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial

What makes this excerpt from Act III of Julius Cesar an example of a monologue?


A. Antony reveals Brutus's betrayal of Caesar to the citizen's of Rome.

B. Antony is alone on stage and shares his inner conflict aloud.

C. Antony calls Caesar's murderers back on stage and threatens his revenge.

D. Antony discusses his grief with other characters.

Answer 1

He did not kill Caesar out of a lack of love for him, he says, but because his love for Rome outweighed his love of a single man. Brutus explains to the crowd that Antony had no part in the conspiracy but that he will now be part of the new. The plebeians call the conspirators traitors and demand that Antony read the will.

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Answer 2

B. Antony is alone on stage and shares his inner conflict aloud.