William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is filled with moments of shock, anguish, and grief. However, many of these and other emotions were caused by that of deception from characters within the story. Brutus, one of Julius Caesar’s best friends, plots against him with a group known as the conspirators. After Decius leads Caesar out of his home and to the capital, Caesar argues with the conspirators about the status of Publius who is currently banned. However, this turns out to be a distraction which leads to the conspirators stabbing Caesar over 30 times, inevitably killing him. After the fact, Brutus persuades the conspirators to cover themselves in Caesar’s blood and to spread the news to the people. Brutus then goes to the church and makes his speech to the plebeians so that they could understand why Caesar was slain. The plebeians are easily …show more content…
After arriving at the capital, he sees the conspirators, with the blood of Caesar on their hands, standing around Caesar’s dead body. After initially being upset, he fools the conspirators by acting friendly and shaking their blood-covered hands. Afterwards, Brutus allows Marc Antony to speak at Caesar’s funeral but under a couple of conditions. Antony agrees, however, almost completely ignores their requests and begins to light a fire into the plebeians hearts. He manipulates the plebeians admiringly by speaking in poetry and using emotion. In addition, he also preaches about how great and noble of a man Caesar was and also discusses Caesar’s will. Caesar was going to allegedly give money to the plebeians which allows them to empathize and cry for Caesar and his death. Antony then manipulates the remaining plebeians into fighting with him, Octavius, and Lepidus so that they could murder those who have done Caesar wrong. In conclusion, Antony is able to manipulate the plebeians by using emotion and explaining of how great of a man Caesar