Question

Using your notes about loyalty in the first act of Julius Caesar, describe the character Antony as either a betrayer or a patriot. Your opinion of this character may change as you analyze the other acts, but your response to this question should focus on Act I only. Write one paragraph of three to five sentences to support your observation of Antony. Use proper spelling and grammar.

Answer 1

Antony was a patriot since Antony claims allegiance to Brutus and the conspirators after Caesar’s death in order to save his own life. Which later on at the funeral he try's to sway the audience to withdraw their support from Brutus. He was holding Caesar's will at the time and had tears streaming down his face in which he used mastered rhetorical techniques to sway the audience against the conspirators. He had a strong passion to exclude Lepidus from the power Antony and Octavius planned to share which says quite a bit about him.

Answer 2

      A friend of Caesar, Antony claims allegiance to Brutus and conspirators after Caesar's death in order to save his own life. Later, however, when speaking a funeral oration over Caesar's body, he spectacularly persuades the audience to withdraw its support of Brutus and instead condemn him as a traitor. With tears on his cheek and Caesar's will in his hand, Antony engages masterful rhetoric to stir the crowd to revolt against the conspirators. Antony's desire to exclude Lepidus from the power that Antony and Octavius intend to share hints at his own ambitious nature.