Antony and Cleopatra is a fable about the destructive duality of Antony’s character. Shakespeare uses gender bending as a device to portray Antony’s transformation from Roman to Egyptian. This transformation causes constant conflict between Antony the Roman defined by empire and duty and Antony the Egyptian defined by folly and lust. This duality finally proves to be fatal. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s Roman plays. It is a tragedy about Antony one of the triumvirates who rule the
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Sam M. Thomas AP Lang (A2) 29 October 2013 Brutus and Antony Speech Analysis and Comparison After the assassination of Julius Caesar‚ his comrades Brutus and Antony both made speeches to the Roman people addressing his death. While Brutus asserts that he died for the good of the state and his remorse of his obligation to kill Caesar‚ Antony honors Caesar’s deeds to the state‚ and coerces the people against the assassination. Brutus claims that Caesar had to be taken out of power for the
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William Shakepeare’s Julius Caesar Mark Antony proves to be the most skilful politician in the play. Do you agree? Power is the ability to influence the behaviour of others - whether this is achieved with or without resistance‚ for good or for bad. Some would go as far as to say that all human behaviour is propelled by the want of power. One can conclude‚ however‚ that power is inevitable in the human society. It’s natural. William Shakespeare’s play‚ Julius Caesar‚ is brimming with humans
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Antony and Cleopatra - The Entire Annotated Work Table of Contents Introduction Key Facts Context Plot Overview Shakespearian Language Character List Mark Antony Queen Cleopatra Octavius Caesar Enobarbus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Pompey Octavia Charmian and Iras The Soothsayer Dolabella Agrippa Camidius Ventidius Scarus Proculeius Diomedes Eros Menas Seleucus Clown Decretas The Entire Play Act I‚ Scene I - V Act II‚ Scene I - VII Act III‚ Scene I - XIII
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Brutus and Antony both use different rhetorical techniques to persuade the crowd at Julius Caesar’s funeral. However‚ the arguments can be very different and one speech can be more persuasive than the other. Brutus’s and Antony’s speech have a different base on the same topic and both have a valid point in each. Brutus lectures about how Caesar is a courageous person. Antony‚ however‚ discourses about how Caesar is determined and how Brutus transferred captives home to Rome. Antony also speaks about
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How does Mark Antony persuade the crowd to reject the conspirators in Act III.3 of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? During Mark Antony’s compelling speech‚ he uses various techniques to convince the crowd that the conspirators are murderers not legends. Because the plebians were easily swayed‚ Mark Antony had this opportunity. To make sure the crowd took his points seriously‚ Mark Antony has to appear fair and wise. He knows that the plebians are strongly in favour of Brutus‚ as Brutus has just given
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speeches there really is no contest. Mark Antony really just takes the cake with his beautiful speech. To be fair Mark Antony had a huge advantage over Brutus in the fact that he got to speak last‚ so his words were the last the crowds got to hear‚ but that is not suppose to discredit Mark Antony. He still delivered an Amazing speech and what was overall just better than Brutus’s. This was just a big mistake on Brutus’s part he never should have let Mark Antony speak after his best friend was just
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Act III‚ scene ii‚ lines 164-192 of Julius Caesar displays how easily Antony can persuade a crowd against Brutus and Cassius. Mark Antony really relates to the Roman people and sarcastically compliments the conspirators with the intentions of infuriating the crowd. This particular scene takes place right after the murder of Caesar in the capital by the conspirators. After Brutus explained why Caesar had to die he let Antony speak to the crowd after him and left. This eventually will be one of Brutus’s
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Antony was a helper and friend to Caesar. He provided moral support and love towards him. Because of his actions‚ when Caesar died‚ he had great passion and wanted to take over to show his commitment to Caesar. Antony expressed the conspirators as noble‚ but changed his thoughts after they killed his leader. Antony was a dynamic character through the death of Caesar and changed his outlook and relationships with the conspirators as it changes from acknowledgement to hate. Antony follows Caesar’s
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Mark Antony plays a huge role for advocating for Caesar after he was murdered by Brutus and the conspires. He is the on Y person who knows what Caesar wants for for and the only one who hasn’t betrayed him. Antony become allies with the conspires because it will help with his plan to take over for Caesar. And finish what Caesar couldn’t. In Antony’s funeral oration‚ he makes an agreement with Brutus not to place blame on the conspirators. However‚ he manages to turn the mob against the conspirators
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