Julius Caesar By Shakespeare

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realizes that Brutus has the upperhand during the specific time phase, so he begins humbly, acknowledging that he speaks with Brutus¡¯s permission. But with his shrewd skill, he slyly disqualifies Brutus¡¯s claim of Caesar¡¯s excessive ambition with the innocuous sounding speech, ¡°if it were so¡±(line 81). Then with the obscure introduction of Antony¡¯s real purpose of his speech, Antony begins to directly attack Brutus¡¯s argument that Caesar was ambitions. He first refers to Caesar¡¯s generosity in sharing the spoils of war with the citizens of Rome and by pointing out that Caesar aways showed compassion for the poor. He knew that the crowd was very emotional, and easily swept off by passion, and his statement that ¡°ambition should be made of sterner stuff¡±(line 94) was an effort to make bridge for the minds of the individuals to make connection to a Caesar who wasn¡¯t ashamed to display his emotions publicly. He then moves on with the story of Caesar, when he have ...

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