Conflicting Perspectives: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Ambitious Tyrant or “Noblest Man that Ever Lived in the Tide of Times”? An Into English Presentation Conflicting Perspectives: The Theory • All texts are deliberately constructed to convey an agenda and a set of values. • This means that every composer has a purpose‚ which is based on the issues arising from their context and audience. • To that end‚ the composer uses conflicting perspectives as a vehicle for successfully conveying
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your way. In "Julius Caesar" the conspirators use many different techniques to get people to join their cause‚ which is to overthrow Caesar. They feel that they need large numbers in order to get their point across. I feel there reasons for murdering and overthrowing Caesar were based on both logic and emotion. It may not have been the right logic or emotions but it was what the conspirators believed in. Some of the reasons they said to get people to join them were they said that Caesar had too much
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affect the entire group‚ but most of the blame is placed on the person who was supposed to lead them in the right direction. Now envision Julius Caesar soon to be crowned the leader of all of Rome. Being a leader of all those people is a big task and a big responsibility‚ but Julius Caesar had the attributes of being a great leader for all those people. Julius Caesar is an aware‚ decisive‚ and confident man. A person would have to be if they were going on to take over all the responsibility of Rome onto
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This question is relevant because Antony is ready to take action on the conspirators to make them pay for what they have done. By using his own emotions‚ that now has gotten him one step close to getting revenge. Antony was very tactful by studying the psychological aspect of the commoners to sway them 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
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Act III‚ Brutus and Antony both used the technique of persuasion to win over the favor of the people in Rome. At the beginning of the act‚ the people of Rome had high respect for Brutus‚ as well as Antony. By the end of the act‚ the audience’s views were sculpted by the speeches of the two men. Both men swayed the audience‚ but Antony seemed to have gained the approval of the public. Consequently‚ the conspirators were not favored by the people of Rome because of Antony’s speech. Following the
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Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ it is shown that‚ language is a powerful weapon‚ and in the hands of a skilled person‚ it can be used to manipulate others. For example‚ when Cassius says to Brutus; “... he doth bestride the narrow world like Colossus‚ and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves”. (1.2.135-38).Brutus is a noble man‚ and only does things for the good of others‚ and he originally does not think killing Caesar is a good idea but Cassius
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shows how the citizens switch sides in the same scenario and it show you why and how.Throughout the book antony and brutus they compete against each other and contradict themselves and each other while they try to defend Julius Caesar legacy as a king. Despite they have to use path to show how they compare each other they also use ethos to show how they both feel about each other. Brutus and Antony share the similarity of logos to the audience. For example‚ when Brutus says
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The Degeneration of Political Morality in Julius Caesar Friends‚ Romans‚ countrymen‚ lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar‚ not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. (Act III. Scene ii.74-78) Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare’s historical and political plays. The play is
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Shakespeare’s Brutus and Mark Antony (Julius Caesar) in an attempt to demonstrate both the sophistic and argumentative reasoning styles of persuasion. Firstly‚ the speech by Brutus is quick‚ rather simplified and to the point. Brutus suggests that Caesar became ‘ambitious’ and therefore‚ had to be killed. Although his oratory is much-less wordy than that of Antony‚ he does offer a reasoned argument‚ as when he asks‚ “Have you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves‚ than that Caesar were dead‚ to live
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and giving the head to Caesar when he arrived. Caesar‚ who arrived to find his son-in-law’s head in a basket‚ was not amused with Ptolemy’s decision to kill a distinguished Roman general and statesman and ended Ptolemy’s control over his own kingdom in favor of his sister Cleopatra VII (Mathisen 2012: 323). This in turn eventually led to the ‘annexation’ of Egypt into the future Roman Empire under Emperor Augustus. After spending the winter in Egypt with Cleopatra‚ Caesar returned to Rome in the
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