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Similarities Between Brutus And Mark Anthony
A comparison between Brutus's and Mark Anthony's speech is that they both used rhetorical devices in their speeches like ethos, pathos, and logos. Also both of their tones were persuasion. And they both asked rhetorical questions, for example Brutus argued that Caesar needed to die by saying "Had you rather Caesar living and all die slaves , than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?" The two even argued about the same topics or opinions but was on opposite sides or had opposite viewpoints about it. For example Brutus went as far as calling Caesar ambitious. While Mark Anthony said things like "you all did see on the Lupercal, that I presented him thrice a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?"

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