What are the central ideas of this excerpt? Select two options
Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of Julius Caesar
ANTONY. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your
ears
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it
Antony wants everyone's attention because he has
very important things to say about Caesar
Antony only wants to bury Caesar, he is not there to
tell everyone how great Caesar was.
The mistakes men make are remembered after their
deaths, but their merits die with them,
If Caesar was power hungry, it was a serious flaw,
and he paid seriously for it
Brutus says that Caesar was motivated by power,
and Antony agrees with this assessment