Read the passage. then answer the question that follows.
antony. 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. the noble brutus
hath told you caesar was ambitious.
if it were so, it was a grievous fault,
and grievously hath caesar answered it.
here, under leave of brutus and the rest—
for brutus is an honourable man ,
so are they all, all honourable men—
come i to speak in caesar’s funeral.
–the tragedy of julius caesar,
william shakespeare
which is the best summary of this part of antony’s speech?
antony calls the assassins "honourable men” but subtly turns the crowd against them.
antony believes that if caesar were truly ambitious, he paid the price for it.
when people die, the good they have done is often lost and their evil deeds endure.
antony agrees with brutus that caesar was ambitious.
the answer is a

The answer is indeed letter A. Antony calls the assassins "honourable men” but subtly turns the crowd against them.

Explanation:

At this point of Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar", Caesar has been betrayed and killed by his men. Mark Antony, who was loyal to Caesar, now pretends to be loyal to Brutus and Cassius, Caesar's assassins, to save his own life. However, at the funeral, he wittily shows the crowd that Brutus and Cassius are not good men. Even though he calls them "honourable", he does so ironically. The Roman people loved Caesar and very well knew his qualities. By emphasizing the fact that Brutus is trying to find some flaw to blame on Caesar, Antony shows the crowd that Brutus is against Caesar and should not be trusted. He then makes it clear that it is not just Brutus since "so are they all, all honourable men". Antony smartly conveys the very opposite of what his words are saying.

c.to compare several aspects of the tragedy to other worldwide tragedies