As he does this, the crowd begins to turn against the conspirators.Īntony then teases the crowd with Caesar's will, which they beg him to read, but he refuses. He denies that Caesar wanted to make himself king, for there were many who witnessed the latter's denying the crown three times.Īs Antony reflects on Caesar's death and the injustice that nobody will be blamed for it, he becomes overwhelmed with emotion and deliberately pauses ("My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me"). He begins by carefully rebutting the notion that his friend, Caesar, deserved to die because he was ambitious, instead claiming that his actions were for the good of the Roman people, whom he cared for deeply ("When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff"). Throughout his speech, Antony calls the conspirators "honourable men" – his implied sarcasm becoming increasingly obvious. Summary Īntony has been allowed by Brutus and the other conspirators to make a funeral oration for Caesar on condition that he will not blame them for Caesar's death however, while Antony's speech outwardly begins by justifying the actions of Brutus and the assassins, Antony uses rhetoric and genuine reminders to ultimately portray Caesar in such a positive light that the crowd is enraged against the conspirators. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works. " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. So, since I wasn't posting about it, my achievement goals for 2010 ended with mixed results! By this, I mean I achieved one (2000 total achievements) and failed the other (41,628 total score)."Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Why didn't I achieve it? Work is the obvious answer a full-time job that supports the gaming habit isn't conducive to playing as constantly as I was when I was unemployed or going to school. The other was that, while I got close by hitting 41,210? I didn't even come close. The idea was 80% of my total possible points. That number at the end of 2010 was 55,215.Ĥ1,628 was gauged off of a grand total of 52,035. Which meant the score to beat was now 44,172. I decided around November that playing for achievements was nice, but secondary. I wanted to play Resonance of Fate, for instance, so I got that. I didn't want to wait on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, so I went and popped it in. So maybe now I'll head for a new goal, but I'm not going to stop playing a game just because I didn't reach it yet. I just finished up New Music of 2010, so now I think I'll do Top 10 of 2010. Namely, top 10 artists, top 10 albums, top 10 tracks. Figure out the entirety of the meme, write it down to prevent duplicates, then post one entry from each over ten days. How can you possibly need more information than that?Īlbum #10: Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank Track #10: The Protomen - Unrest in the House of Light Each entry, I'm thinking five songs, simply because seven seems overboard. I had this album earlier in the year, but it was listening to it at work that really got me interested. Modest Mouse seems to embody everything I hate about the indie genre from a fan perspective, unfortunately. They did good music, put out songs that people liked, and people responded in kind. But as time went on and they got more popular, they got more popular, and therefore mainstream, so now it's cool to hate on the band for it. Despite the fact that everything before and after was quality.ĭashboard is kinda stream of consciousness, lyricwise. Not as bad as Nirvana or Bush or other 90s alternative bands, but enough that you shouldn't really go searching for deep meaning here. Still, a lot of it comes together really well for me, and it really grabbed my attention with the first line - while we're on the subject, could we change the subject now? Missed The Boat took me a bit to warm up to, and I still don't like the part near the end that focuses on the word tiny. This is where I immediately regret holding myself to two songs per album or artist.
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