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    Emma Drewniak 10/10/17 Political Triumph over Filicide: Brutus, One of Rome’s Greatest Hero vs One of Rome’s Greatest Disgrace One of the most unthinkable crimes in our society today is killing your own children; in Ancient Rome, this ferocious act done, in the name of the state, was considered a heroic deed. Such a valiant feat was done by Lucius Junius Brutus, descendant of the royal family of King Tarquinius Superbus. As a scion of a regal bloodline, many thought that he overthrew the…

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    scene that illustrates the fickleness of the people as they celebrate Caesar’s defeat of Pompey. Fickleness is also shown again in “Act II Scene I” as the conspirators are fickle as they try to persuade Brutus into killing Caesar with the addition of Antony and then adding Cicero as a conspirator. Brutus turns down these ideas in which the conspirators agree. This shows that their opinions were easily persuaded and in this stance, Brutus became the leader of the conspiracy over Cassius as he…

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    In Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, there is conflict amongst friends, just for the love of Rome. Julius Caesar was about to be crown ruler of Rome, but before he could, be was backed stabbed by his so-called friends. Cassius and Brutus both had different views of how and why they were killing Caesar. Brutus, being a well respected Roman, he is being questioned if he’s a villain, or hero, and if he’s a tragic hero. His stab into Caesar was for his passionate love for Rome. Brutus in the…

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    “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton uses this quote to get the point that power corrupts whoever posses it, resulting in loss of power. In Shakespeare’s, Julius Caesar, there were a numerous amount of themes. Two themes that stood out the most are how easily people can be swayed by a speaker's words, and the people who obtain power tend to corrupt. In Julius Caesar, a persuasive speaker could easily change the minds of crowds and other people. This…

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    Beginning his speech with, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”, Antony attempts to show the audience that he is one of them, thus making his words more believable. He uses logos in his speech to present facts and reasons that work to dispel the notion that Caesar was too ambitious, and rather was a great man and leader…

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    Julius Caesar Flaws

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    We might like to think that the best people in the world are perfect and that anyone that has made a mistake that gives us a negative view of them are bad people. People look at the actions, but not why the person did the actions and see if they did it with well intent. In Julius Caesar we see such a character or a tragic hero named Brutus. Brutus’ tragic flaw of loving his people to distraction and alienation from them, blinded him from the truth and ultimately created his tragic downfall and…

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    Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony begged for his “Friends, Romans and Countrymen.” to lend him their ears and attention. The three main conspirators involved in Caesar’s Murder are Brutus, Casca, and Cassius. The crowd was persuaded to believe that Caesar’s death was necessary for the good of the republic. However, Antony cleverly manipulates the crowd to believe that Caesar was wrongly murdered. Mark Antony was given permission to speak at Caesar’s funeral as long as Mark Antony did not…

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    well-respected men, Brutus and Antony, express the power of speech to gain the crowds affection during the funeral of the beloved Caesar. Brutus, a well respected Conspirator and Antony, a loyal friend of Caesar, avail rhetorical and literary devices, conveying different tones of persuasion and matter of fact against manipulation and melancholy…

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    “Brutus is an honorable man.” (Act 3, Scene 2). Mark Antony as well as Brutus both used very convincing techniques to sway in their favor. Mark Antony did have a better way with words, as we would say. He had a more respectable tone as well as diction. Antony also had a strong use of propaganda, which is repetition. Lastly, he had a strong pathos base, which usually has a very good way of persuading others. The first strong base Antony used was the use of ethos, logos and pathos. He used ethos…

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    “That was a Man”, Marc Antony declares defying us and making people and scholars everywhere question, who was the protagonist and who was the victim in Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”. In this play two characters play a very controversial role including an assassin and the now late leader of Rome Caesar who was killed by Brutus, but is that the whole story. We will find that out using evidence gathered by me showing that, though I may not agree with Brutus, how he was the…

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