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Examples Of Parallelism In Julius Caesar

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At the funeral of the beloved Julius Caesar, Marc Antony mourns in his speech in front of the people and speaks on his reasoning to side with Roman people. The speech wasn’t to praise Julius Caesar but to turn the people of Rome against the conspirators who killed Caesar. In the very beginning, Parallelism can be shown by Antony saying “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.” Throughout the rest of the speech, Marc Anotny uses emotional points with Pathos to gain the trust of the people of Rome to side with him. After Caesar's death, the goal was to overthrow the conspirators by gaining trust from the Romans and getting them all riled up but according to Antony that was not the goal in his case. This speech shows many emotions after a very powerful leader has fallen in Rome. …show more content…

Antony uses this strategy to persuade the people to go against the conspirators, but needs a strong attention grabber that lets everybody with different tiers of wealth within Rome to be interested in what Marc Antony must say. This act of parallelism that grabs the audience’s attention lets the speech fluently flow into the next part that focuses more on how it was wrong to kill such a brave and selfless leader of

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By refusing to read the will several times and admitting that what it contains will cause the people to have such a great love for Caesar that knowing he is now dead will be unbearable, Antony ignites curiosity in the people and furthermore, a subconscious feeling of respect and graciousness toward Caesar. Basically, Antony uses Caesar’s will to convince the people that Caesar was a selfless, kind-hearted man and those who killed him should be ashamed and punished for killing an innocent man. Through Antony’s use of paralipsis, he is able to plant a seed of admiration for Caesar and one of hate for the conspirators in the hearts of the plebeians. In his speech to the citizens, Antony also asks many rhetorical questions to cause his audience to pause and reflect on how they really feel, or how Antony wants them to feel, about certain people and events that have recently become important. In one instance.

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