Wednesday, March 18, 2015

What meaning did Shakespeare intend in the lines that suggest that the conspirators' deed will be "acted over" or repeated "many ages hence"?Lines...

Cassius is in agreement with Brutus. They wash their hands
in Caesar's blood. They walk through the market-place waving swords with Caesar's red
blood.  This shall go down in history and be retold, reenacted to prove liberty from a
tyrant has occured.


Cassius insists that this scene shall
be acted over in the world of states yet unborn and in accents or languages that are
unknown to the conspirators.


The conspirators are so
certain that the world will thank them for killing a dictator and in the centuries to
follow, other dictators shall face similar death.


"Many
ages hence" heroes shall bathe in the blood of a
dictator.


"Peace, freedom, liberty" is too precious to
allow a tyrant to take it away from people for "many ages
hence."


Surely the conspirators were right because we are
still reading of their bloody actions to liberate Rome.

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