Julius Caesar Persuasive Essay

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“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.”
(Antony – 3.2. 82-85) This quote is the first part of Mark Antony’s speech, after the assassination of Julius Caesar, and after Brutus speech. Brutus gave a speech trying to explain to the people of Rome the reason why they killed Caesar, and according to him it was for the good of Rome because Caesar had became to ambitious. Brutus and the others conspirators only allowed Antony to speak after shake hands with them and Antony would not be allowed to speak against them. On the contrary, Antony agreed with the conspirators, but on the back of his mind he is with a very

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