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    The Effects of Brutus and Antony Brutus Is a noble man Antony repeats with sarcasm during the time that Brutus allowed him for Caesar’s funeral. Brutus was a noble man indeed, though he was corrupted by the conspirators to betray Caesar. Antony can relate with Cassius for being manipulative and weasel like. The contrast between both Brutus and Antony are very distinct and can show how easily someone can be manipulated or how a person can hide their true self. Brutus’ tragic flaw was how…

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    Julius Caesar Essay Chaos will strike across the whole city of Rome after the ruler is killed by a dangerous mob. This occurs in the tragic play, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, which follows the lives of Caesar and the conspirators before and after Caesar's death. Chaos erupts when the conspirators manipulate Brutus into killing Julius Caesar for the good of Rome. Manipulation by clever people occurs many times in the play. In the beginning Cassius realizes Brutus can be persuaded when…

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    “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones...Caesar was ambitious…” (Julius Caesar, Shakespeare) The play, “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare lives up to how ambitious and greedy Caesar actually was. A group of Caesar’s closest friends and men devised a plan to assassinate this ambitious ruler. Caesar was put to death by his closest adversaries in front of the people of Rome before being crowned king. Caesar’s…

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    The play,"Julius Caesar," is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.It is mainly about the assassination of Julius Caesar. Throughout the play the author uses the literary element of conflict.Conflict is a serious disagreement or argument,typically a protracted one. The author uses conflict to develop the central idea that the best intentions of good,noble men can lead to tragedy. Examples can be found in the text that clearly shows how the author uses conflict to develop the central idea…

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    In the novel, Julius Caesar there is a two sided argument on how and why Caesar was murdered. Even though Caesar is Brutus’ best friend, for the sake of Rome, with no regrets or grief, Brutus murdered Caesar. In Brutus’ mind, the best for Rome was to annihilate Caesar. When Mark Antony finds out that Caesar was put to death, he asks Brutus if he can deliver a speech at his funeral. Brutus grants Antony his wish and lets him speak. Little did he know that Anthony had a proposal to turn everybody…

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    The leader of the country has just been brutally murdered. There is panic and confusion among the crowd. No one is sure what is happening. No one is sure of what to do. This is the perfect time for a persuasive speaker to stand up and grab everyone 's attention. A persuasive speaker is someone who is able to change and strengthen people 's opinions and actions. When William Shakespeare wrote his famous play, Julius Caesar, he describes a scene of a fallen leader and two speakers, one explaining…

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    Tragic Hero Essay In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, conspirators wage a war against the Roman Republic, which as one knows all too well, ends in tragedy. Led by Brutus and Cassius, rebels against Julius Caesar plot to kill him in fear of his overuse of power, but once he is dead, a war over power begins between Caesar’s assistant Antony, Brutus, and Cassius. In the end, Cassius along with Brutus kill themselves in fear of surrender and to die noble men. While he never…

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    Facades, treachery, and deceit are all tactics used in manipulation, and without manipulation, the course of history would have changed dramatically. Brutus would never have joined the conspiracy to kill Caesar, and because of that, the second triumvirate would change. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare writes about how deceit, treachery, and facades are used time and time again for conspirators and loyal friends to get what they want. Shakespeare…

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    In Act III, Scene 2 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony turned a crowd of mourning citizens to an angry mob. Antony turned this crowd into an angry mob through multiple persuasive devices. Brutus and the other conspirators thought they were killing Caesar for the good of Rome, but Antony and other ideas. He wanted to discreetly show the crowd of Romans who the conspirators actually were to him, a group of murderers. In order to persuade the people to not have sympathy for the…

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    They say that fame has a price but is giving away your privacy and having people photograph your every move worth being famous? From flying paparazzi drones to harassment the life of a celebrity seems to be portrayed as glamour. As the brilliant Anthony Liccione said “ Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.” Paparazzi are blood thirsty animals ready to snap a photo of a celebrity in the wrong place at the wrong time just to ruin…

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