Words Are More Powerful Than Weapons In Julius Caesar Essay

Julius Caesar Spring Final
There are several occurrences that prove the theory that words are more powerful than weapons. In the play Julius Caesar a guy by the name of Marc Antony convinces a whole crowd of people to revolt against their leader. In Germany Hitler did a similar thing, he turned the people to his radical side. They used persuasive speech and gave the people offers that caused them to be loyal to them. These two people proved that words are more powerful than weapons. Mark Antony had a tough job he had to give a speech after brutus had the crowd cheering for him. Antony starts to give his speech and he slowly starts to explain why Brutus was wrong. “But Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus was an honourable man. He has brought many captives home from Rome, whose ransoms did the coffers fill. Did this in Caesar feel ambitious.” (Julius Caesar,56) In his speech he continuously said that Brutus is an honorable man. Eventually the crowd is completely against Brutus at this point he tells them caesar left them money in his will. This gets them extremely angry that Brutus killed such a nice man and they started to riot. There is no way that mark antony could take down brutus’s army with a weapon. This is why mark antony got most of the village on his side then he attack Brutus and won. This is …show more content…
Adolf Hitler wrote a book while he was in prison. Over 5,200,000 copies of this book were sold by 1939.(Wilmoth) In this book, he described the ideal government which included the ideal person. This book caused Hitler to gain popularity, and persuaded many Germans to follow Hitler. After he gained popularity he started giving speeches eventually he became the dictator of Germany. After Hitler persuade the germans with his words he started conquering other countries and started building concentration camps. There is no wa that Hitler could have done this without his persuasive