Manipulation In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

　　By keeping his listeners thoroughly engaged, Antony is able to further develop on his purpose by utilizing diverse rhetorical devices. Near the beginning, he makes effective use of parallelism to list Caesar’s selfless deeds, like “when that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept”, which gives the effect that the list is so long that Antony cannot describe it in unique detail. Additionally, his parallel repetition of “Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man” serves as sarcasm. By repeating each good action with these two lines, Antony is getting the audience to contrast Caesar’s endless good deeds with Brutus’s repetitive and conflicting argument. Further on in the speech, Antony uses proslepsis somewhat obviously to reveal Caesar’s will to the people. He tells them that he found “a parchment with the seal of Caesar...tis his will”, yet quickly stops himself from telling anymore. Therefore, the audience is intrigued by the will and its mention reengages any listeners who

Persuasion is a concept that is at the very center of the play. Everyone is trying to convince someone of something. Cassius, a general and acquaintance of Caesar, is trying to win over men he believes would be valuable conspirators. Cassius’ persuasion wins Brutus over in a pivotal scene in Act II and Brutus states his intentions, “It must be by his death, and for my part I

Brutus first states, “[Would you rather Caesar] living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead to live a freemen” Then Antony came back with “You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?” After Brutus’ speech, Antony was able to evoke the feeling of the audience and bring them back, before his death and see what they had loved within Caesar before his death. All of his accomplishments were able to evoke the emotions they had before his death and then wanted to actually kill Brutus. In the next Scene, it mentioned a major consequence of the words that Antony had spoken. The famous poet Cinna was killed. However, he wasn’t even involved in the assassination of Caesar. That was how much emotion he was able to evoke in the people in Rome. Although ethos could establish the cold, hard truth, pathos can get under peoples skin and effect them and draw them into your cause. In which case it is Antony's'

Jealousy took a role in the play when Cassius was explaining to Brutus how, in Cassius’s opinion, Caesar is not better than everybody. He gave examples on the time Caesar was swimming in a lake with Cassius and nearly drowned, getting saved by Cassius. Cassius encouraged Brutus to kill Caesar because he thought Brutus was just as good, if not better, than Caesar.. The ending of Julius Caesar is important because it shows that not everything results in how people always want it to. Brutus and Cassius both commit suicide in the end of the play. The importance in the end of the play is the ending isn’t always how you want it to be. Before Cassius and Brutus split up, Brutus was explaining to Cassius that he would never kill himself. In the end, Brutus killed himself because he didn’t want to continue without his best friend,

He continues on to talk about how Caesar was his friend, how Caesar helped benefit Rome, and how Caesar was a war hero. He uses pathos to make the audience feel sorry for what happened to Caesar. Antony describes how Caesar refused the crown three times before and how Caesar wrote a will that left money and land to the common people of Rome, which shows that he was not ambitious. He uses logos to tell the audience that Julius Caesar was not avid and did not deserve to die. Antony uses repetition to make the audience pity him in way, by describing all the good things that Julius Caesar did, which contradicted everything that Brutus was saying about Julius Caesar being too

William Shakespeare's tragic play portraying the life in ancient Rome is one that closely follows many elements that make a drama interesting. The murders and the conspiracies behind the killings add to the plot of jealousy and patriotism. Within Julius Caesar also

A person of great power has a large amount of control and influence over the vast majority of the population that they lead. Often times, their leadership position was gained through manipulation of the people as they try to sell themselves to them. This manipulation also affects any competition for that leadership position because a common technique to sway someone’s opinion is to make the competition look bad which then makes the people look down on the competition, causing the opposing side’s chances of success to plummet. William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar demonstrates this as a tale of manipulation leads to the downfall of the weaker link. Cassius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar have perfected the art of manipulation as they are

The clang of the swords on the shields pierced General Julius Caesar’s ear. He couldn’t wait till the war against the Greeks was over and he could return home to his wife. He slaughtered 113 enemy soldiers and was still on the hunt to find one. He stepped over 47 bodies, some of which were still breathing and groaning their last breaths on the eastern shore of the river Acheron. Caesar's nemesis was General Brutus,the leader of the greek army, and his old best friend. After the battle at the River of Acheron, General Julius Caesar rode back to his camp, Gleaming in his Ice-white armour, shining in his glory after his victory vs the Greeks.

In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare narrates the power of deception and manipulation. The act of deceiving is to mislead someone by a false appearance or statement. The act of manipulating is to influence the behavior or emotions of others. The theme of deception and manipulation are interactions between Cassius and Brutus, the conspirators and Caesar, and Antony and the conspirators.

In fact, Antony’s goal has been met now that he has taken out his two main targets. Free from their enemies, Antony can take back Rome for himself. Because Antony decides to attack his former acquaintances, Brutus and Cassius die tragically. In summary, Antony, triggered by newfound power, becomes a violent man, leading to the death of his former

During the speech Antony begins to humanize Caesar by using examples of what Caesar had done for Rome and explains “when the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept” (Shakespeare 750). Although Caesar was seen as a king Antony humanizes him by showing he was sympathetic towards the people of Rome. Throughout the play Antony shows his loyalty to Caesar and his sympathy towards him as his “heart is in the coffin with Caesar”(Shakespeare 750). Antony’s is distraught about Caesar’s death showing how he cared for Caesar and shows his loyalty to Caesar by having his spirits die when Caesar died. Anthony's concrete evidence and loyalty to Caesar is what persuades the crowd to turn in favor of Caesar and initially sets up the conflict in Rome as his loyalty to Caesar makes his quest for

He wishes that he had never fallen for Cassius’s insidious plan to assassinate Caesar, “Caesar, now be still; / I killed not thee with half so good a will”(997). He regrets, that through these actions, he destroys his name and his stature. Brutus, scrutinizing all of his mistakes, and wishing that he had done things differently verifies that he is the main tragic hero in this classic work. Through these final moments of Brutus’s life, the audience of the play can truly see that Brutus is not lying about his love of Caesar, but that he honestly regrets participating, and is sympathetic about the last years of his life. Brutus, even though he has made many mistakes throughout his life, he makes one final one with his last action. Unfortunately, the audience does not know whether or not he regrets committing suicide. Had he not done so, Antony most likely would have restored some of his stature in Rome, and granted him his life, “This was the noblest Roman of them all. / All the conspirators save only he / Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; / He, only in a general honest thought / And common good to all, made one of them”(998). It is clear that Antony is saddened by the loss of Brutus, because he realizes the true meaning of Brutus’s actions.

Today’s society is easily manipulated by world leaders who take control of the people in order to advance their own goals. These leaders gain power because they know what the people’s ideals are. In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Brutus and Mark Antony give their speeches in order to manipulate the Plebeians. Brutus and Cassius kill Caesar according to their plan, but their plan ultimately fails because Brutus underestimates Mark Antony and the Plebeians by not being able to see what their real intentions are.

First and foremost, Julius Caesar’s tragic flaw was that he was too arrogant. Which because of that lead to his death by the conspirators consisting of his closest politicians and generals. At the very minute finishing the book, I immediately thought that Julius Caesar should have taken the crown the three times he was offered it. However, he chose not to so he could gain more of a better opinion to the eyes of the people in Rome. Which I believe from the text of the play is how Julius Caesar intended to play his actions. Based on the reading, Brutus and Cassius don’t believe that Julius Caesar was the king to the throne. Brutus feared for his people that they would “Choose Caesar for their king.” (Shakespeare 36). Brutus and Cassius believed

In one instance, he is the rancorous war hero whom Caesar eulogizes and fears. Almost immediately after that, he surrenders his military designation by foolishly allowing Cleopatra to establish his course of action. As his Roman friends, even the faithful Enobarbus desert him, Antony feels that he has, without a doubt, lost himself in old age, and he resolves to salvage his dignified individuality by killing his self. Originally, this act may emerge to be a victory of motive over fervour, of Western consciousness over Eastern ones, but the play is not as straightforward as that.