I'm writing an essay for English on Shakespeare's Juluis Caesar. In act III scene 2, Antony addresses Caesar's body as the noblest man. Later, Antony...

Antony
does not seem to have changed his mind when he speaks of Brutus as the noblest Roman of them
all. It is actually in Act 3, Scene 1 that he addresses Caesar's body in a marvelous . He says
to the dead Caesar:

Thou art the ruins of the noblest
man
That ever lived in the tide of times.

Caesar
is, according to Antony, the noblest man that ever lived anywhere in the world. When he finds
himself victorious at the battle of Philippi and is viewing Brutus' dead body, he says to
Octavius:

This was the noblest Roman of them
all.
All the conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great
Caesar;
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one
of them.

In other words, Brutus is only relatively the
noblest Roman. He is the noblest of all the conspirators who assassinated
Caesar.