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this he continues with consistent repetition of facts Caesar has done for the beloved Rome. Making his way into Logos. Antony uses facts, precedents, and logical reasoning. Line 92-96, “You all did see that on the Lupercal/I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?/Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;/ And sure he is an honorable man.”. What Antony is doing is basically stating out a faulty syllogism: ex; Major Premise: If Brutus is an honorable man. Minor…

Antony explains, “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, / Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?” (III,ii,93-94). The first part of this phrase shows that this is Antony's best evidence to contradict the speech of Brutus, and Antony knows that the majority of his audience will see it as he…

In William Shakespeare's play “ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Mark Antony both deliver speeches upon Caesar's death. Mark Antony uses the right rhetorical devices to win the crowd's affection and trust. Mark Antony's original intent appears to be to express his anger of the death of his friend. “ Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears” (3.2.75-109) he uses ethos here as he addresses the crowd as friends first establishing a sense of comfort and trust for his speech. Brutus’s…

him more personal and trustworthy to the crowd. He continues to make himself seem trustworthy while he is slowly turning the crowd against Brutus and the conspirators. Antony declares: You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he is ambitious,…

“People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.” This quote by French philosopher Blaise Pascal explains the success of any good speaker. They have the ability to make the audience adopt the ideas as their own. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, this remains true. Julius Caesar is murdered by conspirators who claim to be his friend. The idea, spawned by Cassius, has been taken over by Brutus and together they have…

“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…

many battles for his sovereign state and his faith, and he is said to be high ranking. He is described at the end of the description as being a perfect, gentle knight. However, it is also suggested that the knight is merciless when the story says, “Thrice in the lists, and always killed his man,” (Line 65). The story says “killed”, not simply “defeated”, showing that the knight never left his opponents alive. The knight…

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” (III.ii.72-73). After the ¬¬¬distressing assassination of the Roman general, Julius Caesar, two politicians, Marc Antony and Marcus Brutus, come to persuade the Roman crowd that their position on his death is the correct one. They each emphasize their positional differences by using rhetorical strategies that refer to logic, credibility, and emotional appeal. While Brutus may have stronger analytical…

The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmens' Khoisan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation,[2] which the URL of their official website and the title of their Myspace page suggest is the preferred pronunciation.[4] The band's full-length debut record came out in 2000…

The speech Mark Antony gives after the death of Caesar in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is an exceptional example of a persuasive speech. In the speech Antony gives he uses several effective techniques to get the reaction he wants out of a very biased and stunned crowd. The words in the speech demonstrate logic, passive language, and emotional responses which are used to lead the crowd to hunting down Brutus and the other assasssins the killed Caesar. Antony, in his speech, mentioned several…