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    impacts using words over violence. Prime examples being Mahatma Gandhi and Mark Antony. In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony is able to use only his words to move a whole crowd of people from liking one individual to liking him instead. He does this two times throughout the play and both times it works out better for him. The first time is right after Caesar is murdered and Mark comes to see the conspirators. Since he knows they just killed his best…

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    Brutus and Mark Antony in scene II of Act III. Although Brutus did establish how reliable he was to the audience, and displayed his overall goodness before the conspiracy, Antony delivered a more effective speech by manipulating the fact that he had Caesar’s will, presenting his relationship with Caesar, and using a reasonable amount of logical persuasion.…

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    We assure them that we are not killing them. Then Mark Antony’s servant comes in to ask if Antony can meet with us here to ask why we stabbed Caesar and be assured he will not also be assassinated. I tell the servant no harm will be done to him. The servant go and fetches for Antony. When Antony arrives he tells us if there are any hard feelings towards him he would be honored to be killed also at this time. I tell him that…

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    because he cared about the well-being of his country. Brutus did all of the things that he did for the love of his country, not to be bad, but because he saw it as bettering his country. In the play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare Mark Antony Refers to Brutus saying “this was the noblest Roman of them all” this statement is true. Brutus stands up for what he believes and will risk his life doing it, he always thought about what was best for Rome, despite killing Julius Caesar, the…

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    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 during that…

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    • Character Notes o Mark Antony (83-30 B.C.): A Roman politician and general. He was an ally of Julius Caesar and the main rival of his successor Octavian. He also had a romantic and political alliance with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, which was his ultimate downfall. o Cleopatra (69-30 B.C): Also known as Cleopatra VII Philopator, is the Egyptian Queen. She was to become the last monarch of the Ptolemaic Empire. In 48 BC she became the ally and lover of Julius Caesar until his assassination.…

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    century and was a about the death a man called Julius Caesar. Both Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus are at the “funeral” of Caesar moments after he was assassinated by a group of conspirators along with Brutus. During this Brutus attempts to make the crowd believe that murdering his friend Caesar was justified. After the people calmed down when Brutus spoke Mark Antony was seething about Brutus murdering his best friend, so Mark Antony started plotting his revenge and in his “funeral speech” he…

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    crowd to go against conspirators. This was a lot of things Mark had to defend against. In addition to defending a Caesar’s dead body Antony had to go back in the past to things he has done for the people, and he is not even defending himself. Not alone that Antony has to worry about the conspirators, he even sent a servant to the scene of murder to make sure he was not a target on the group of conspirators list. Consequently, leading to Antony fearing for his life while giving his speech. Then…

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    The Rise Of Cleopatra

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    Before Cleopatra was born, Egypt was not the greatest country in the world. The Egyptian king, Ptolemy XII, depended on the Romans for a lot of heavy lifting. They need them for things like money, architectural ideas, etc. After Ptolemy XII died, Ptolemy XIII rose to power. Around 70 BC, Cleopatra VII emerged from Cleopatra V Tryphaena, who was Ptolemy XIII Aulete's wife and could've possibly been his half-sister. Back in these times it did not matter if you were a part of the same genealogy or…

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    Moreover, the literary devices add deeper meaning to the text and add life to the overall writing. Mark Antony, one of the main characters’ in ‘Julius Caesar,’ was Caesar’s right hand man and his greatest companion. After the unfortunate event which brought an end to Caesars’ life, Mark Antony gives a sermon at Caesar’s speech to negligibly reveal his intentions of avenging Caesar’s death. Throughout Mark Antony’s speech literary devices such as: repetition, irony and rhetorical questions were…

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