Monologue

Pompey Monologue from Antony and Cleopatra

From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 59 sec

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To you all three, The senators alone of this great world, Chief factors for the gods: I do not know Wherefore my father should revengers want, Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar, Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted, There saw you labouring for him. What was’t That moved pale Cassius to conspire? And what Made the all-honoured, honest Roman, Brutus, With the armed rest, courtiers of beauteous freedom, To drench the Capitol, but that they would Have one man but a man? And that is it Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden The angered ocean foams, with which I meant To scourge th’ ingratitude that despiteful Rome Cast on my noble father.

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Pompey expresses his outrage and determination to avenge the wrongs done to his family by Rome, reflecting on historical conspiracies and the nature of power.

40s · anger · revenge · family · betrayal · power

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