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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in society and determine their fates. Marcus Brutus from the play Julius Caesar‚ by William Shakespeare‚ is one such man. Brutus uses his rationale and logical reasoning to surpass challenges and conflicts throughout the story. Brutus ultimately ends his own life‚ but not before taking the life of Julius Caesar‚ the title character of the play. It is this determination of
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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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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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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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devices. In the funeral orations in Julius Caesar it is evident that the perspective of Brutus on Caesar and his death are driven by his bias. Brutus’ avid patriotism results in his bias against Caesar‚ and consequently he puts the good of Rome before his loyalty to Caesar. This bias is represented effectively through the use of antithesis – “Not that I loved Caesar less‚ but that I loved Rome more”. Brutus believed that Caesar had a fatal flaw that put his beloved country in great jeopardy – ambition
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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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king praised him‚ he led a rebellion against him. In Julius Caesar Brutus‚ a honor driven conspirator‚ believes too much in honor and uses nor as a way to justify his action. He is admired by the Roman people‚ but was easily manipulated into joining a conspiracy and immediately took as the leader to killing Caesar. Both of these characters are very similar in how they perceived and lived their lives. Shakespeare creates Brutus and Hotspur as characters whose principle concern is for themselves
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