Read this line from the passage: all may run smoothly for a while, then storms gather about the head of the child of fortune what does charles mean when he makes this remark? a person who has enjoyed good fortune may suffer misfortune. a fortunate person gets opportunities to travel across the seas. a person who has been lucky has to suffer bad weather. a person who is fortunate becomes skeptical and mistrustful.

brutus overlooks that the majority of the crowd served julius caesar the military general. he appeals to their citizenship as romans by calling them first by that name in his salutation: "romans, countrymen, lovers." mark antony, however, speaks in terms understood by the military, by calling them first by, "friends, romans, countrymen." he recalls not only caesar the general but caesar the friend, whose body they see covered with stab wounds.