Use Of Persuasion And Manipulation In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar many characters use persuasion and manipulation to get what they want in the play.
This appears mostly when some characters are trying to convince other characters that Caesar should not be in power. At this point in the play, the characters that use persuasion and manipulation is Caesar and Cassius. Caesar uses these techniques, mostly Ethos because he's trying to gain moral support from the crowd by claims that he isn't like any other monarch, by not accepting a crown so he can trick people into thinking he won’t be like any other monarch. The result is the crowd loving him. Another character who uses manipulation is Cassius. “'Tis just, And it is very much lamented, Brutus, That you have no such mirrors as

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