Question
Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:
Good countrymen, let me depart alone,
And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:
(i) Identify the speaker of the above lines.
(ii) When and where were the above lines spoken?
(iii) Bring out the irony in the above extract.
Solution
(i) The speaker of the above lines is Brutus.
(ii) The above lines were spoken when Brutus was speaking at Caesar's funeral. As Brutus was about to step out of the pulpit, he spoke these words.
(iii) It is ironical that Brutus tells the citizens to listen to Antony for Brutus' sake because it was Brutus who had a hand in Caesar's murder and Antony took Caesar's revenge by unearthing Brutus's conspiracy.
