Ambition
Notes on Ambition
Video: Romans, countrymen, and lovers
Read the NoteJames Mason as Brutus in the 1953 film of Julius Caesar directed by Joseph Mankiewicz.
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Quotes including the Theme Ambition
My excellent good friends! How dost thou
Read the QuoteHamlet
My excellent good friends! How dost thou,
Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do
you both?
Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing
either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Rosencrantz
As the indifferent children of the earth.
Guildenstern
Happy in that we are not overhappy.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers
Read the QuoteMarcus Brutus
Romans, countrymen, and lovers,Exordium hear me for my
cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me
for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor
that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom,
and awake your senses, that you may the better judge.Epanalepses & Isocolon
There is tears for his love;
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
Read the QuoteAntony
Friends, Romans, countrymenExordium, lend me your earsSynecdoche!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.Antithesis
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bonesAntithesis;
So let it be with Caesar.
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My gracious lord, Henry, your foe, is taken
Read the QuoteNobleman
My gracious lord, Henry, your foe, is taken
And brought your prisoner to your palace gate.
King Edward
See that he be conveyed unto the Tower.
Nobleman exits.
And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,
To question of his apprehension.—
Widow, go you along.—Lords, use her honorably.
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Ay, Edward will use women honorably!
Read the QuoteAy, Edward will use women honorably!
Would he were wasted—marrow, bones, and all—
That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring
To cross me from the golden time I look for.
And yet, between my soul’s desire and me,
The lustful Edward’s title burièd,
Is Clarence, Henry, and his son, young Edward,
And all the unlooked-for issue of their bodies
To take their rooms ere I can place myself.
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