Has a Lean Look?
A Phrase from the Play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Caesar Remarks, Concerning One of the Men Conspiring Against Him, “Yon Cassius Has a Lean and...
A phrase from the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Caesar remarks, concerning one of the men conspiring against him, “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.” Caesar means that Cassius looks dangerously dissatisfied, as if he were starved for power.
Who does Caesar say has a lean and hungry look?
CAESAR: Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
What is an example of a metaphor in Julius Caesar?
' In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, there are many examples of metaphors. In Act 1 Scene 1, Murellus calls the commoners 'blocks and stones'. In Act 1 Scene 2, Cassius states that he is 'a wretched creature', and also 'a mirror' for Brutus to see his own greatness.
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