Throughout time, the qualities and the defining characteristics of leaders have always been admired by society and continue to be a huge part of how humans view each other. Within the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare the reader is shown the qualities of different leaders and how each carried themselves in order to have their cause marked as superior. Mark Antony showed the most qualities of leadership with his ability to persuade the public, being able to gather people to agree with his views, and still being able to recognize the good within the people that were opposing his cause. Mark Antony was able to persuade a vast amount of people to support his cause and ultimately create an army that would crush his opposition. He starts by giving a speech to the countrymen of how he wants to avenge Caesar's horrid death. By the end of the speech all the country men …show more content…
About! Seek! Burn! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!/… We’ll hear him, we’ll follow him, we’ll die with him!”(3.2.205-209). Antony was able to persuade thousands of people to go against a cause they were fighting for just 10 minutes ago and convinced them to join the side completely opposing their views. He created a loyal army due to his ability to make himself look as an equal to the rest of the countrymen. None of them view Antony as a superior, but simply as a man who is showing them the right cause to fight for in order to save the rest of Rome. The countrymen do not address him in a formal manner, but simply as one of them, creating a loyal bond that can only be severed by death. They quickly began to form an army and storm over Brutus and Cassius’ army in order to kill them off and name themselves the victors of this battle. When they did end up finally