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Comparing Brutus And Marc Antony In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

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The comparing and contrasting of the speeches between Brutus and Marc Antony in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare shows many ups and downs between both Marc Antony and Brutus. This essay will help determine and show who had the most powerful and effective speech. You will also learn how the Romans respond to the speeches. Was both speeches a form of leadership or was it all revenge between Brutus and Marc Antony? In Brutus speech he is effective for a period time, then overlooked by the Romans. Brutus stands away, above the people and shows little to no emotion. Whereas Marc Antony stands almost within the crowd as he is speaking and is very broken up and emotional (Movie Clip). The speeches also differ in the aspect …show more content…

Brutus self sacrifices himself to the people of Rome. He also tells the Romans that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome, which he loves more than his good friend Caesar, and stated that he cares for Julius Caesar. The Romans are very easy to persuade cause them to start yelling Brutus’s name instead of Caesar. This was Brutus’s intention all along, to get the people to want Brutus to be king. Brutus is very straightforward in his speech and has a very serious tone when speaking, acting if he was already crowned to be King. Brutus proceeds to inform the people that Caesar's intention with Rome were no good. Brutus told the Romans that they would all be slaved by Caesar if he was still alive, he poses a question of if the people would want to be slaves. This helps persuade the people of Rome. Brutus also tells Rome that Caesar had too much ambition to be the King. The Romans now want Brutus to be crowned now and they won’t take no for an …show more content…

Antony took his speech with a sensitive and purposeful approach. Antony starts out by bringing out Caesar's corpse, leading the Romans in shock. Was it a part of the agreement between Antony and Brutus before the funeral? Antony explains what happened to Julius Caesar and uncovers the body for the Romans to see. Antony is physical with the Romans and shows multiple emotions. Antony doesn’t go against the conspirators but makes it very obvious what they did and why they did what they did. Antony's purpose to his speech was to point out that the Romans are very easily persuaded and show just stop and honor Caesar before jumping to a new King. Anthony points out how honorable of a man Brutus is, he also states that Caesar was doing all kinds of good things for Rome but he has too much ambition. Marc Antony shows the Romans Caesars will that he left for the people, this gets the crowd excited, wanting and begging for Antony to read the will. Which Antony does. Was this possibly a plan to persuade the Romans and take the lead of the

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