Mark antony [adresses the crowd as he stands on stage] 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 interred with their bones; so let it be with caesar. the noble brutus hath told you caesar was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath caesar answer’d it. here, under leave of brutus and the rest— for brutus is an honorable man; so are they all, all honorable men— come i to speak in caesar’s funeral. he was my friend, faithful and just to me. in this speech, marc antony is speaking to the characters (the crowd) in the play allowing him to share his ideas with them while they listen. what most likely motivated shakespeare to deliver this type of speech? question 5 options: his monologue allows him to share his ideas to the crowd without interruption. his monologue allows him to share his innermost feelings. his monologue prevents him from interrupting other characters while they are having an aside during the speech. his soliloquy allows him to share his ideas to the crowd without interruption.

This speech where Marc Antony is speaking to the crowd is an important one because of the information being presented, both, to the crowd and readers/audience members.  Because of its importance, a good way to ensure the most is taken from the speech is to not have the speaker interrupted in order for the message to make the most impact. Thus, this is most likely what motivated Shakespeare to have this information conveyed as a speech/monologue.   (Note:  We know it is not a soliloquy because a soliloquy is where a character speaks only to himself or herself.) 

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

journalism is the gathering, organizing, and distribution of news -- to include feature stories and commentary -- through the wide variety of print and non-print media outlets. it is not a recent phenomenon, by any means; the earliest reference to a journalistic product comes from rome circa 59 b.c., when news was recorded in a circular called the acta diurna. it enjoyed daily publication and was hung strategically throughout the city for all to read, or for those who were able to read.