for his friendship with Caesar‚ it is obvious that Antony does not have it easy when he begins his speech. Brutus lets him speak at Caesar’s funeral‚ but only after Brutus‚ an excellent speaker himself‚ spoke "to show the reason of our Caesar’s death." He then allows Antony to say whatever he wishes as long as he speaks no ill of the conspirators. However‚ Antony has two advantages over Brutus: his skill at speaking and his chance to have the last word. It is safe to say that Antony makes the most
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hearts: / I am no orator‚ as Brutus is” (3.2.99-100). Firstly‚ Antony creates an image of the plebeians’ hearts. He alludes to the necessity of the emotions that will ultimately lead to the plebeians’ altering decision. Also‚ Antony attempts to put a sort of fear in his audience in order to be able persuade them with his own intentions: that Brutus is on a mission to steal their “hearts” from them. He induces the people that he is addressing to harden their hearts toward Brutus‚ who is only trying to thieve
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Cassius has sown in Brutus the need for glory: “’Brutus’ and ‘Caesar’—what should be in that ‘Caesar’? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?” (1.2.149-152). Thus power lives anew. As Brutus takes hold of authority‚ both his desire and aptitude for control begin to grow. This race before supremacy demonstrates the innate greed of human reign.
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Junius Brutus‚ Okonkwo‚ and Jay Gatsby‚ making them true tragic heroes. These characters also share many similar traits‚ trials‚ and temperaments. We will start off by talking about one of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes Marcus Junius Brutus‚ also called Brutus by his friends. At the beginning of Julius Caesar‚ Brutus is a respected man‚ whose family was tasked with removing the king of Rome from power a few years ago. Brutus is now a senator in Rome and Julius Caesar’s best friend. Brutus strives
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Julius Caesar Group Project: Analyzing Diction on Marc Antony’s Speech 1. Overall I would classify Marc Antony’s speech as largely monosyllabic as a whole in length. This took a much longer time to decide than it did of Brutus’ speech‚ this could be that Antony is a smarter and nobler person or that it’s just how Julius Caesar constructed the speech to persuade the crowd. One of the lines that demonstrate a great use of one syllable would be “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar and I
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By comparing the use of Ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos in the speeches by both Brutus and Antony in the play ‚ it is clear that Antony’s speech is more persuasive. Both plays have their own unique ways of using Ethos‚ pathos and logos in their plays but Antony seemed to have the more persuasive speech‚ even though Brutus was said to be the one who is better at speeches because he does them more often than Antony. The use of Ethos in Brutus’s speech wasn’t a lot‚ the one bit he uses was” hear me for mine
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on his side. Also‚ Antony figured out ways to persuade the crowd by using fallacies‚ rhetorical devices‚ and appeals. From the beginning of Julius Caesar‚ Brutus wanted to do everything for the good of the people‚ but are the people actually good? The commoners have shown that they tend to go back and forth between leaders. After Brutus spoke at Julius’s funeral‚ the
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chance. In the play it also makes Caesar out to be a man that only cares about himself‚ but I think Caesar cared about a lot of people for example‚ his wife and best friend Brutus. I see Caesar as the underdog at times because he was never given a chance he was just judged and told no‚ in this
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of the play focuses on the conflict involving Brutus/Cassius and Antony/Octavius because Julius Caesar really is the main topic in Acts One and Two‚ as everything revolves around him. Whether it be his “becoming” king‚ planning for his assassination‚ or maintaining false friendships with people that are not his friends‚ like conspirators plotting against him‚ Acts One and Two were all about Caesar. Caesar does die in Act Three‚ but the conflict of Brutus/Cassius and Antony/Octavius really centers upon
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and that somehow is related to their life. Home by Warsan‚ the author to describe what immigrants go through in their country and why immigrants leave their home. Nightsong: city by Brutus‚ the author describes the bad conditions in which people in Africa are living. In Warsan Shire’s “Home” (2015) and Dennis Brutus “Nightsong: city: (1694)‚ both poets employs personification‚ metaphor‚ and simile to illustrate that home is not always a safe place. There is always something that will make you leave
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