Flattery In Julius Caesar

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The ides of March have arrived and the conspirators have Caesar at the top of the steps to the senate house where they plan to assassinate him. They first beg Caesar to repeal Cimbers’s banishment. Caesar tells them that they shouldn’t think that they will sway him with their flattery. He then delivers this speech that he starts of by telling them that he’s not like them. When he says he is referring to how if they were begged to repeal the order they would be flattered and they would do so. This makes Caesar less likeable to the reader. He then compares himself to the Northern star by saying he is the only one in the universe who remain s constant. He then talks about himself in the third person when he says that he is the only man

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