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Question:How is our understanding and analysis of this quotation helpful in our understanding of larger, more universal meanings in the play?
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"This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar, he only in a general honest thought and common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, 'this was a man!' "


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: How is our understanding and analysis of this quotation helpful in our understanding of larger, more universal meanings in the play?
Here's the quote...

"This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar, he only in a general honest thought and common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, 'this was a man!' "

I didn't read the play. I know the story little. It might have alot to do with who said it. Was it Brutus or Cicero?