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    speeches to the citizens by Brutus and Antony. The speeches were contrary to each other. Brutus speech was to calm them down and explain why Julius was killed (he used logos and ethos). One of Brutus’s friends‚ Antony‚ also made a speech to the people. His whole purpose in the speech was to get everyone angry and go against the conspirators. He wasn’t allowed to talk bad about the conspirators‚ so he tried to get everyone angry through their feelings (pathos). Brutus first addresses what

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    deepening his anger‚ turning to madness. Hamlets hatred towards Gertrude is seen in Act 1 scene 2 as Hamlet expressed in a negative tone; “seems‚ madam! Nay it is; I know not seems./ This not alone my inky cloak‚ good mother‚” Also Hamlet’s first soliloquy in the play shows his distress towards Claudius and Gertrude’s marriage. His internal dilemma is explicitly shown when this ghost of Hamlet’s father appears in Act 1 scene 5 as he calls upon‚ “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” It is

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    love‚ Ophelia. The losses that Hamlet has to deal with‚ the anger and lack of forgiveness that he allows to build within himself‚ allows Hamlet’s true thoughts and character to be revealed through his soliloquies‚ which are reviewed and discussed throughout this essay. <br> <br>In his first soliloquy‚ Hamlet reveals his wishes that he could just melt away and be no more‚ with death comes relief from this world‚ but he beliefs that suicide is immoral and that the whole business of the world is useless

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    his mother and father‚ the movie shows Hamlet thinking aloud to himself about his life with his parents while he is watching childhood home movies. When Hamlet delivers his famous soliloquy “To Be or Not To Be” in the movie you can see the struggle he is having with choosing life or death. He is thinking the soliloquy

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    Hamlet evolves during the course of the play. Nowhere is this more visible (and audible) than in his soliloquies. For instance‚ his soliloquies in Act II‚ Act II‚ and Act IV are each distinctively different from one another. This is even evident in the punctuation Shakespeare uses. The number of exclamation points Shakespeare uses in writing Hamlet’s soliloquies decreases significannot ly during the course of the play. In Act II‚ Hamlet is blaming himself for many problems. He is angry with himself

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    Wither A soliloquy (from Latin: "talking by oneself") is a device often used in drama whereby a character speaks to himself‚ relating his thoughts and feelings‚ thereby also sharing them with the audience. Other characters however are not aware of what is being said.[1][2] A soliloquy is distinct from a monologue or an aside: a monologue is a speech‚ in which one character addresses other characters‚ whereas an aside is a (usually short) comment by one character towards the audience. Soliloquies were

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    never yet one hour in his bed Have I enjoy’d the golden dew of sleep‚ But have been waked by his timorous dreams. Spec tacularly‚ in the scene before the battle at Bosworth‚ King Richard is visited by the ghosts of h i s victims . His soliloquy in Act V scene iii suggests that he is overcome by a ‘coward conscience’ (lines 191 - 6) : O coward

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    that we but teach / Bloody instructions‚ which‚ being taught‚ return / To plague th’ inventor” (1.7.6-10). At the beginning of the soliloquy we get a sense of reassurance that Macbeth wants to kill Duncan‚ but this quote is more hesitant‚ offering the idea that violence teaches other people to pursue violent actions. This ideal contradicts the beginning of the soliloquy with the intention of giving both sides of Macbeth’s inner conflict. After‚ the contradiction between his judgment and the justice

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    applies perfectly. In the play Julius Caesar‚ Brutus is confronted with an internal conflict; he chooses to join the conspiracy and kill Caesar. Brutus was right in many ways to do so. Without Brutus‚ the conspirators would have probably failed or would have been misguided. They would have killed Antony and who knows who else‚ but Brutus kept them on the straight and narrow. Brutus did it for the good of Rome as a whole‚ not for himself. Before Brutus joined‚ Cassius was mainly in charge; when

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    Is Brutus a villain or a hero? Is Brutus the noble man Anthony describes‚ is he really a dishonorable man‚ or was he just a mistaken man? Was Brutus the most noble roman of them all or was he a hateful and abominable roman.How could Brutus be so ceasar closes friend Caesar when he was alive now have two different judgments. In the play “Julius Caesar” Caesar the most beloved general in Rome is killed by the conspirators.Along with the conspirators is his friend Brutus. While most conspirators

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