Unit 5 - Shakespeare and other pre-20th Century Texts
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Class and Pride
'was ever man so proud as is this Martius?'
'to be silent and not confess so much were a kind of ingrateful injury'
'As if I had received them for the hire of their breath only'
'For your voices I have fought'
'With a proud heart he wore His humble weeds': B
'You are plebeians If they be senators'
'He would not flatter Neptune for his trident'
'Wife, mother, child, I know not'
Love and Battle
'he is a lion I am proud to hunt'
'my work hath not yet warmed me'
'Let me clip ye In arms as sound as when I wooed'
'the general is my lover'
Ambition and Motivations
'we'll beat them to their wives': C
'cannot take my heart consent to take A bribe to pay my sword'
'you shout me forth In acclamations hyperbolical'
'There will be large cicatrices to show the people when he shall stand for his place': M
'I have lived To see inherited my very wishes And the buildings of my fancy': V
'looked upon things precious as they were The common muck of the world'
'Would you have me False to my nature': to V
Rome
'cormorant belly'
'The dearth is great, the people mutinous'
'What has he done to Rome that's worthy of death? Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost'
'he is banished As enemy to the people and his country'
'I'th'city of kites and crows'
'he'll be to Rome As is this osprey to the fish'
Gender roles
'was pleased to let him seek danger where he was like to find fame'
'O Jupiter, no blood!'
'he did so set his teeth and tear it'
'As if Olympus to a molehill should In supplication nod'
Enemy/Friend
'Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor More than thy fame and envy'
'You have been a scourge to her enemies; you have been a rod to her friends'
'Have all forsook me': C on Romans
'Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart A root of ancient envy'
'Making the mother, wife, and child to see The son, the husband, and he father tearing His country's bowels
out'
The Poor
'lowest, basest, poorest of this most wise rebellion'*
'dissentious rogues'
'curs'
'like peace nor war'
'fragments' [scraps of uneaten food]
'boils and plagues'
''We thank the gods Our Rome hath such a soldier'': Cm
'they love not Martius'
'stinking breaths': by Tribunes
'multiplying spawn'
'Almost all Repent in their election'
'mutable, rank-scented meinie'
'cockle of rebellion'
'measles'
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