Comparing Brutus And Antony In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

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In "The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare two different men are giving speeches to the people of Rome. Brutus and Antony are each explaining why Julius Caesar was killed but they each have a completely different view on it, One says that he was killed for a noble cause and the other says that he was murdered and that it was an act of brutality. Compare and contrast the speeches given by Brutus and Antony.

The start of how the two are different is how they approach making their speeches. Brutus used ethics to try to persuade the Romans by saying that the reason he was killed him was because a man was loyal to Rome over being loyal to Caesar and other close friends and he uses himself as an example to make the Roman people like

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