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Comparing Mark Antony And Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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The famous historical story of Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare tells the story of Julius Caesar, the most powerful ruler of Rome. Caesar was a well liked ruler and was becoming more liked by the people of Rome except for a few senators who thought that his power was getting out of hand. Later in the story, Caesar was violently murdered by multiple Senators who wanted his power. One of Caesar 's piers, Mark Antony was very upset when Caesar died and spoke his feelings in a speech, his speech about Caesar went along with with a speech from Brutus who was one of the Senators who killed Caesar. The two speeches had very similar topics but used very different techniques to get the crowd engaged. Mark Antony was very emotional during his speech and Brutus showed barely any emotion. At one point during his speech, Antony had to turn around and get himself to stop crying before continuing on with his speech as is displayed in this quote: “My heart is in …show more content…

Both Antony and Brutus paced their speeches differently which changed the timing of the speech and made it harder to interject with Brutus and easier to interject with Antony. The opportunity to interrupt the speaker during the speech gives the listeners the ability to change the direction of the speech and that definitely happened during Antony’s speech. He used restraint to get the crowd to pay attention and it worked. He changed his tone and changed the mood of the speech which kept the crowd interested and gave them something to follow. The crowd begged to hear Caesar 's will, when Antony announced that he had it. Antony refused to read the will, but when he found out from people’s comments on his decision during the speech and that they cared so much and wanted to hear it, he considered it and then described why it would be unfair to Caesar to read his personal will. Both speeches were paced differently and both allowed for slight interjections which were proven to cause a big impact on the

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