According to Britannica.com, after Julius Caesar’s assassination, Marc Antony had gained the possession of the treasury and of Caesar’s papers which he used to his own advantage. Antony pursued a moderate policy, but once Antony is challenged by the nineteen year old Octavian, he turned against Caesar’s assassins. In Shakespeare’s Julius Cesar, many people refer to Antony as a reviler, or having many camouflaged identities, but one might suggest a few specific alter egos that correspond to Marc Antony. Antony demonstrates a sneaky villainous demeanor when one least expects it. Also, Antony uses tragic events in order to gain power proving to be a political opportunist. Although Antony demonstrates a villainous demeanor, there are also times …show more content…
“I come here to bury Caesar, not to praise him”(3.2.79). Antony is proclaiming, arguably, one of the most important passages in the play. Antony’s speech starts off with him addressing friends, romans, and country men, but what stands out is that he says that he is not there to give praise to Caesar, which everybody expected. Antony is there to bury him. Antony’s villainous thought and actions are displayed in his first line talking to the audience. His actions about burying Caesar bring out the villainous side of him. “My credit now stands on such slippery ground That one of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer. That I did love thee, Caesar, O, ’tis true” (3.1.191-194). Antony is standing upon multiple people confessing to them that his credit is possibly no more. He tells the people to classify him in two negative ways because he knows and they know that Antony can be a villainous person. “He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him”(4.1.6-7). Towards the end of the play, one sees that Antony strikes up a bold, harsh statement. This statement was not very long detailed, Antony straight out says that someone will die. There was not any sympathy shown in this passage, which corresponds to Antony’s villainous