Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and the information in the paragraph below it. Excerpt: AN
TONY. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. 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 the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The lyrics of the chorus say that people’s evil deeds live on. To emphasize the point, Iron Maiden invokes a common cultural allusion. reverses a familiar literary allusion. makes a joke about a historical allusion. plays on a well-known religious allusion.
From the given excerpt, it is understood that the people’s evils deeds live on. The evil that men do lives after them however the good deeds which they have done gets over as their bones do after they die. This must be with Caesar and all the men who have done both the evils and the good deeds. The lyrics of the chorus thus shows that how evil deeds and the good deeds affects the life of the humans while they live and even after their death.
He describes himself saying - Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war: this fame has gone abroad to the sky's rim. He describes himself in a way that is very cocky and arrogant.
