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13 Cards in this Set
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"As constant as the northern star" |
Caesar utilises celestial imagery to convey personal transcendence over brutus and the other conspirators. This is his blind acknowledgement of the others loyalty towards him leading to his downfall.
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"Et tu, Brut?" |
As Shakespeare employs dramatic rhetorical questioning, displaying the sudden realisation of Brutus' disloyalty. |
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"...like a colossus... we petty men walk under his huge legs"
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Cassius' catachresis of caesar ( ^quote), emphasises caesars tyranny by personifying him as colossus, whilst also exemplifying cassius deceiving nature of loyalty. |
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"hidden worhiness" |
Cassius also uses self depreciating language as he addresses his ( ^ ) , showing his bitter acknowledgement of Caesar's power. |
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"It is hard to conspire against a man that is well thought of". |
Machiavelli employs logos as he states that ( ^ ), emphasising that loyalty is fundamentally directly correlated to a readers success, in juxtaposition to Shakespeare's portrayal of loyalty. |
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"It is better to be feared" (than loved) |
Suggesting autocracy evokes loyalty of the public, using emotive language to allow the responders ti empathise with the idea of loyalty being crucial in avoiding revolt. |
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"Phillip of Macedonia... hung onto his kingdom" |
Machiavelli's repeated use of historical examples such as ( ^ ) furthers his credibility, persuading his audience of the positive nature of loyalty. |
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"well moved if I were you" |
Showing the use of ethos in an appeal to the conspirators as he tries to understand them, which was no effective. |
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"They are all fire" |
Shakespeare's warning of morality in a leader is revealed, shwn as he personifies morality as a disturbance to a leaders decision making and using imagery to describe that ( ^ ) |
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"of the flesh and blood, the unaissalable holds rank" |
Shakespeare utilises the natural imagery of flesh and blood as a metaphor for men, to further emphasise that out of all the rulers , the most successful ones are unwavering in their decision making, accentuating his argument of the futile nature of morality in a leader. |
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"Decision is final" |
His use of forceful tone addresses that a rulers ( ^ ) instructs the reader throughout the didactic text, accentuating the efficiency of decision making without morality, similarly exploring Shakespeare's view that morality is detrimental to a leader. |
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"It's a common shortcoming not to prepare for the storm when the wether is fair". |
employingthe symbolism of possible revolt as the storm to encourage the readers to beprepared to act outside of moral code as a leader |
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"Often not forced to be good" |
A historical allusion to the 16th century ruler Cesare Borgia’ssuccessful reign during the era of volatile social stability, emphasising hisidea that a successful ruler must be prepared to throw away their morality. |
