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Vsuresh Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Julius Caesar

Hi Please tell me whether interpretation is OK.
Context: Mark Antony utters this when he mouns the death of Caesar before Marcus Brutus and other conspirators.
"Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years, I shall not find .....myself so apt to die. No place will please me so, no mean of death, As here by Caesar, and by you cut off, The choice and master spirits of this age."
My doubts:
Does cut off mean Antony being killed by Brutus and others?
Antony calls them choice and master spirits of this age:  Does Antony flatter them saying they are the mightiest of all? 
  

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He expects to be killed soon by the assassins. So he's saying that he'd be glad to be killed right next to Caesar by the assassins ("and by you cut off"). " If that was his intent, it works, because at Brutus' insistence they don't kill him.

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  • He expects to be killed soon by the assassins.
  • So he's saying that he'd be glad to be killed right next to Caesar by the assassins ("and by you cut off").
  • " If that was his intent, it works, because at Brutus' insistence they don't kill him.
  • ")
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He expects to be killed soon by the assassins. So he's saying that he'd be glad to be killed right next to Caesar by the assassins ("and by you cut off"). But he's maybe maneuvering also for his life when he calls the assassins "the choice and master spirits of this age." If that was his intent, it works, because at Brutus' insistence they don't kill him.

Note the glibness of his words
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