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What are some irony in Julius Caesar and please explain.

2006-12-15 13:17:17 · 4 answers · asked by shopaholic 3 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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The user of irony assumes that his reader or listener understands the concealed meaning of his statement. Perhaps the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she means. Thus, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, when Mark Antony refers in his funeral oration to Brutus and his fellow assassins as “honorable men” he is really saying that they are totally dishonorable and not to be trusted.

Irony: expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another.

*Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

2006-12-15 15:50:27 · answer #1 · answered by ????? 7 · 0 0

remember at the very end

cassius kills himself thinking brutus had lost his battle when he had actually won?

that's ironic

and calpurnia and portia are all about irony

2006-12-15 21:30:45 · answer #2 · answered by xenon 5 · 0 0

the fact that brutus stabbed him when he was his best friend

2006-12-15 21:19:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

friends will stab you in the back....

talk sweet to your face and work dirty behind your back

2006-12-15 21:25:02 · answer #4 · answered by cork 7 · 0 0

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