Marcus Brigstocke

Poetry analysis In act III, scene II, line 73-146 of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses several poetic devices to show that it was caesar was not ambitious in a sarcastic, joking way. He uses a few poetic devices in Antony’s speech Shakespeare used several poetic devices when writing Antony's funeral speech. First, he says lend me your ears in the first line. He used a metaphor there. He wasn't actually asking them to lend their ears, he was asking to listen to what he had to say. Next, he…

Friends or Foes In the play “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” Mark Antony contrasts Brutus. One way we can tell that Mark Antony contrasts Brutus is being that Antony is powerful it shows just how gullible Brutus really is. Another thing is since Mark Antony is a good friend and wants revenge; it proves Brutus is a backstabber. Lastly, Mark Antony stands up to Brutus and speaks at Brutus’ funeral and turns the crowd against him, and this shows that Brutus realizes what he has done is wrong. Well…

Tragedy from the author, William Shakespeare, which had the ruler of Rome, Julius Caesar, die from the sword of his own friends which resulted in more deaths and a war for the throne. But in the play the antagonist, Mark Antony, and the protagonist, Marcus Brutus, both make a speech after the death of Julius Caesar. Brutus spoke first and said great things about Caesar. Antony spoke and disagreed with what Brutus had to say and said that he was not a great ruler; but, a great man. During this…

Brutus based his speech on why he had killed Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony based his speech on how good of a person Julius Caesar was. Mark Antony was explaining how Caesar was a generous man and not a tyrant like Brutus was making him seem like he was. Brutus said that Julius Caesar was starting to become a tyrant and take control of everything and not share the power he held with the senate, but he knew that what he was saying was not true at all. Mark Antony decided to hold a conference and…

The passage (http://www.forumromanum.org/history/morey22.html) is from William C. Morey’s history text Outlines of Roman History. The outline examines the rise and fall of Antony and Octavius following Julius Caesar’s death. Review this information as well as your notes from class carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze the power struggle in Rome. After the death of Caesar it has been the mission of Mark Antony to bring an end to those that were involved during the assassination.…

Caesar’s choices that influenced Rome were demonstrated by several authors using several genres. A couple of examples of those genres are non fiction, tragedy, and drama. Those authors used those genres to most greatly bring awareness to Caesar’s choices. One example of the genres was non fiction. Caesar set up a system to rule Gaul and the Optimate faction tried to shorten his government and would prosecute him if he returned to Rome. Caesar wanted to run for consulship in absentia to not be…

Julius Caesar and the 12 Angry Men Throughout the first trimester of Sophomore Honors English, we read through some phenomenal pieces of English literature; Taming of the Shrew, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Tales of Two Cities. All of these works may seem random at first, however, two of have a handful of correlation between one another, Julius Caesar and 12 Angry Men. Even though these plays were created at different time periods and completely different plots, both of them have one theme in…

When Brutus and the conspirators kill Julius Caesar, most of the conspirators have the wrong intentions and do it because they will benefit from his death, opposed to Brutus who does it with good reasoning such as it benefiting Rome. After the conspirators kill Caesar Brutus talks about how he did love Caesar but killing him would be for the good of Rome, despite his feelings. “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not because I loved Caesar less, but that…

The Rhetoric Ruling “The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings” (I,ii,141-142). In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus, a noble man, joins a conspiracy to kill his friend, Caesar, who is about to break the Roman way of the having Senate and become king. After the deed is done, two forces oppose to try to persuade the people of Rome to believe to opposing positions. In this debate between Brutus and Antony, each has his own way of speaking of the…

t is without a doubt that Anthony is much more the persuasive speaker than Brutus thought him to be. Brutus should have listened to Cassius about not letting Anthony speak on behalf of Caesar's funeral. Anthony knew how to stroke the crowd into believing that he had no special qualities or talents that could ever come up with such an outrageous plot to kill Caesar. Anthony used Brutus as an example to prove to the Romans everything that he wasn’t. Anthony to the attention from him and put it on…