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Ethos Pathos Logos In Julius Caesar

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Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, while surely meant to be entertaining and historically informative, undoubtedly also houses insight into the deep complexity and diversity of human beings. The play shows the constant use of ethos, pathos, and logos in human thought and action. Characters use ethos and logos to persuade in evil ways, which results in the assassination of Caesar and an explosion of pathos. Humans, when doing something unjustifiable will present shaky logic. When a person of high authority or respect does this however, their ethos acts as a shield to their flawed logic making it believable. Brutus falls victim to this scenario with Cassius. Cassius after being robbed of his legions and glory by Caesar thirsts to destroy him

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