Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and the information in the paragraph
To emphasize the point, Iron Maiden
below it.
O invokes a common cultural allusion.
Excerpt:
• reverses a familiar literary allusion.
ANTONY. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your
• makes a joke about a historical allusion.
ears.
• plays on a well-known religious allusion.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar.
Background information:
"The Evil That Men Do" is the title of a song by a the
English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The lyrics of
the chorus say that people's evil deeds live on.