Read the extract and answer the following questions briefly:

O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me:

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

(a) Explain: ‘My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar’.

(b) What is the speaker trying to do?

(c) Find a word in the above lines which means the same as ‘violent’.

(a) The speaker is Julius Caesar’s best friend, Mark Antony. Though Caesar was dead and in his coffin, Antony believed that his love and emotion for Caesar would be forever with him. This is an emotional speech by Antony to declare his friendship with Julius Caesar as being immortal.

(b) The speaker is Mark Antony who is addressing the Roman crowd during the funeral of Julius Caesar. He is trying to arouse sympathy of the people for Caesar. Antony was a master orator. Through his strong and bold speeches, carefully crafted words, dramatics and rhetoric Antony tried to manipulate the fickle minded Roman into believing that Julius Caesar was a great and kind ruler. He was trying to highlight Caesar’s innocence and his good deeds against the backdrop of tyranny and oppression faced by the Romans during Caesar’s rule.

(c) In the above lines, the word ‘brutish’ is synonymous with the word ‘violent’. Both the words mean cruelty and rough behaviour.