Julius Caesar Act 3 Scene 1

These traits that Richard displayed were not befitting to a king and a man who was suppose to lead. Rather than look out for the

Since Richard cannot do anything about his deformity and ugliness he turns his bitterness to ambition and lays the groundwork for his plan to betray King Edward IV. Richard tells the audience, “plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, by drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, to set my brother Clarence and the King in deadly hate against the other; and if King Edward be as true and just as I am subtle, false, and treacherous, this day should Clarence closely be mewed up, about a prophecy, which says that G OF Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be” (1.1.32-40). In these lines, Richard reveals his plan that he will turn Clarence and King Edward against each other so Edward will banish Clarence to the tower because he believes Clarence will be his murderer. Richard will do this through declaring a prophecy that this will be so. Richard explains that this will work because King Edward is as just as Richard is treacherous and Richard will use that against King Edward to cause his and Clarence’s demise. It is not known whether the character Richard would have revealed more about his plan this early in the play because he is interrupted by Clarence. Richard ends the speech with the lines, “dive thoughts down to my soul, here Clarence comes” (1.1.41), which basically means that he better keep

While his heart must be black, Richard must convey the appearance of a humble and gracious ruler.  He will say or do anything to gain and then to keep his crown.  Perhaps the most striking examples of this Jekyl and Hyde farce are his pledges of undying love for two women he plans to have killed, claiming that all the heinous acts he's committed were only for their love.

In Act 3 Scene 2 the passionate crowd listens to Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral. My speech is spoken in the voice of Cassius attempting to counter Antony’s words. Cassius specifically advises Brutus to not let Antony speak after him during Caesar’s funeral knowing how persuasive Antony can be. Cassius is a man who is jealous of Caesar’s power and glory but realizes he must put up a front to convey the audience. Therefore, his tone is hostile towards Antony and Caesar; however, very uplifting towards Brutus.

There is huge debate from both supporters and haters. The Richard III society claims that the facts we do know don’t support Shakespeare’s story. Recent evidence of two unidentifiable skeletons in the tower of London exists but isn’t conclusive. Richard still had the same possible motive as the play,the princes were in the way of the throne (Hicks, 362). If he isn’t guilty of this crime it could change the way he is viewed. The uncertainty leaves room for us to turn to the one source that is definitive, Shakespeare's play. Shakespeare used this uncertainty to gain our attention and amplify our accusations against Richard. Murdering relatives may have not been so appalling in its day ( University of Leicester, Web) but as time passes we continue to recoil and speculate, but it’s possible we will never know the

What exemplifies a speech in which persuasive appeals and devices convey emotion and persuade audience members without using false information? Antony's speech in Act III of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare exemplifies a speech in which persuasive techniques work to achieve the speaker's goal. Mark Antony's speech consists of several persuasive techniques that amalgamate to form an effective piece of persuasive rhetoric. Antony's speech is an effective piece of persuasive rhetoric because he uses ethos, pathos, and rhetorical questions.

Who killed Julius Caesar? Julius Caesar was a beloved dictator. The lower class was pleased with Caesar for giving them money and bringing peace and safety to Rome. Though some people envied his power. On March 15, 44 B.C. Caesar was found murdered at the senate house.

Richard speaks about how people see him as a curse to the land and how he is unfit to be there. He does not like that and to prove everybody wrong, he will rise up to be king, no matter what he has to do. He even stated in his opening soliloquy that he will, “set my brother Clarence and the King, / In deadly hate the one against the other.” (I.i. 35-36). He can’t live his whole life being told he is a villian just because of his deformity.

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Act III Scene 2 of Julius Caesar directly follows the scene where Brutus and the other conspirators murder Rome’s leader and general, Julius Caesar. In this scene, Brutus is speaking to a large crowd of citizens, explaining that he killed Caesar not out of hatred, but out of his love for Rome. Marc Antony then enters carrying Caesar’s body; he says that Caesar actually loved his citizens, and even reads them Caesar’s will. Both of these speeches drastically change the opinion of the crowd, which implies that they have fallen victim to mob mentality. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, mob (herd) mentality means “the tendency for people's behaviour or beliefs to conform to those of the group to which they belong” (Oxford Dictionaries). Various literary devices used in Act III Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and visual elements used in the film Julius Caesar (1953) highlight the fact that the crowd has fallen victim to mob mentality, which suggests that Rome would be better off they had a strong government, lead by a exemplary figure like Julius Caesar.

The play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare is about Brutus who is convinced by Cassius that the ruler Julius Caesar is becoming too powerful for Rome’s own good. Brutus and other conspirators take this potential dictator down by killing him. Rome breaks into chaos but all in all the chaos was better than having Julius Caesar as a dictator. Brutus and Bernie Sanders think alike in the way they want a fair and equal society. They both strongly want to take down the “higher” people in the world. While Bernie Sanders is looking to take down the 1% and Wall St Brutus is looking to take down Caeser. Both of them in all want to help the common folk and plebeians of their country.

Though seemingly requested of the divine by Queen Margaret, this tragic unraveling of Richard’s support structure is clearly all but self-imposed as the misguided duke, in apparent adherence to the mandates of The Prince’s Chapter III, greatly wrongs his trusted comrade Buckingham, “Repay[ing]” him for his “deep service / With … contempt” (4.2.118-119) in denying him his promised earldom. Richard assumedly does this out of what he perceives as necessity, attempting to protect his newly-gained position of power by heeding Machiavelli’s advice that one “cannot keep as friends those who have put [him] there because [one] cannot satisfy them in the mode which they had presumed” (Machiavelli 8). Yet though Richard, in his supposedly justified dismissal and subsequent execution of his greatest ally, demonstrates brutal Machiavellianism in that one sense, he soon after fails disastrously in his enactment of another key principle of The Prince through his belief, however tenuous, in Lord Stanley’s claim that he has “no cause to hold [Stanley’s] friendship doubtful” (Shakespeare 4.4.492). By virtue of his faith

Richard certainly had the means to murder the two brothers. They were both under his control in the Tower of London. Richard had multiple people he could ask to kill the brothers without anyone knowing. Although Richard had these capabilities, there would have been no real motive for him to kill the princes. Richard would not have killed them in order to become king, as they were declared to be illegitimate children of Edward. This would leave Richard as the next heir. Therefore, parliament, recognizing this, set the crown on Richard in the act called Titulus Regius. Not only did Richard have no motive to kill the prices, but it also was not in his character to do that. He had always been faithful to his brother. On April 21, 1483, Richard publicly swore an oath promising to recognize his nephew, Prince Edward, as successor to the throne. Not many people then would have broken any kind of oath. Countless other people with stronger motives than Richard could have murdered the princes. The princes could have died of natural causes as well. It is known that a doctor was visiting the princes during their stay in the

Early on in the play, we learn of the character Buckingham and his allegiance sworn to Richard, the Duke of Gloucester. One can view Buckingham as Richard’s partner in arms. Throughout most of the play, we see the two conspirators design and carry out evil and malicious acts to place Richard as the king. They were willing to remove any obstacle in order for a new king to be crowned. Clarence, Hastings, and Lady Anne are a few of the characters who befell a gruesome fate due to the conspiracy of Richard and Buckingham. Buckingham is completely devoted to Richard’s cause and will stop at

As Machiavellians, Richard III and Henry V become actors, acting differently in certain situations to be able so that they will benefit, but in these situations Henry V has noble aims. Richard’s goal just seems to become the King(1.1.140-148). In a true Machiavellian fashion, he deceives several people like his brothers and the common people to try and advance his goal. When he is talking with Clarence his imprisoned brother he tells him, “your imprisonment shall not be long; I will deliver you.” He is