Ancient Rome Compared To Modern Times

Campbell 1 Campbell
Mr. Hockin
English 421, Block B
19 April 2013
“Ancient Rome vs. Modern Times” “Peace, ho! Let us hear him.” (III.ii.79) Said the plebeians of Rome as they were about to be manipulated by Mark Antony the day that their mighty true leader had been brutally murdered minutes before, and will yet be easily contrived to switch side to a guy who was loyal to their leader. Although many people find his strange to do, Americans are just as easily manipulated when Barrack Obama said one of his most famous quotes ever, “I’m in this race not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation” (Thum). Manipulation may not be the word to describe these people but the definition does, it is one of the main
Throughout the book “Julius Caesar” the people of Rome have been very easily manipulated by Brutus and Mark Antony. Many speeches have used persuasive techniques such as an understatement, emotional appeal, word choice, and parallelism. It might have been ancient Rome but it hasn’t changed since much until modern times. Mark Antony is very careful when he begins his oration to the plebeians. “Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, for Brutus is an honorable man, so are they all, all honorable men” (III.ii.88-90). The crowd is positive towards noble Brutus and will not accept anything critical against him. Antony works at the plebeians slowly and gets them to realize that Brutus was wrong for calling Brutus ambitious and
Once the election started for Barrack Obama the people of the United States were dying for a black president. Obama is a very strong orator and can get minorities on his side using limited words. He ran for president even though he was black. Lots of people discriminated him and gave him put downs. But he didn 't care. He told, and convinced people should be treated the same as other people. He was persistent, and kept trying. And eventually, he became the first black man to be president of the United States. It wasn’t because he was black that he became the president, it was the persuasive techniques that he used. Many of which is word choice and rhetorical questions. “Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be” (Thum). Hope is what Barrack Obama and United States went by and that’s what got him to where he is now, manipulated people are what happen and many people believe a strong speaker is a strong