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Julius Caesar Loyalty Quotes

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“Some people aren’t loyal to you… They are loyal to their need of you… Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.” This quote gives the realization that when someone is utterly loyal to a person, and that person dies, the person would then change drastically. One such example is Mark Antony in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. In the play, Antony displays that loyalty to one man can easily turn into greed when a person feels like they have power through manipulation. Antony as a character is run by a single cause, which is loyalty to Julius Caesar. An example of this is when he gave his soliloquy about Caesar’s death and the men that killed him. His words were self-controlled until the conspirators left, and when they did, he shouted: “Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice / Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war, / That this foul deed shall smell above the earth / With carrion men, groaning for war.” (III.i.254-276). This …show more content…

If you can control the meaning of words, then you can control the people that must use the words.” This quote by Phillip K. Dick shows that manipulation can be used to change people’s beliefs to suit the manipulator’s will. A way that Shakespeare does this is when Antony gives the speech at Caesar's funeral and states “And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, / It will Inflame you, it will make you mad. / ‘Tis good you know not that you are his heirs, / For if you should, O, what would come of it?” (III.ii.140-143) He also uses Caesar’s mantle as a visual and continues to describe the conspirators as they stabbed Caesar. (III.ii.167-186) This revealed that he deliberately tried to anger his audience to turn against the conspirators and riot. It also reveals that he manipulated the crowd into doing what he wanted them to by making himself seem more like them. Manipulation though, can give a sense of power and

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Do you think brutus is a tragic hero? Well he is since he has a strong relationship with Caesar, his relationship with the citizens of rome is greater. For example,” This was the noblest roman of them all the conspirators, except him did that they did out of jealousy of Caesar; Only he, in general -honest thought and common good to all, made one of them His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world,” This was a man!” This quote from act 5 shows how he was considered a tragic hero by anthony which was Caesar’s son.

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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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Samantha Durand 27 October 2015 Dunipace 4th Julius Caesar Essay Brutus is the Tragic Hero William Shakespeare wrote “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” to tell the story of the tragedy that happened to him. When Caesar was going to become king, his own friends turned into conspirators against him. Since the conspirators said that Caesar would abuse the power of being king, they decided to murder him for the sake of the Roman people.

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The Consequences of Honor Being an honorable person requires one to follow a code of ethics for the greater good, even at the cost of his own life. If one breaks his code of ethics, he believes that living with the shame of breaking it for the rest of his life would be a “fate worse than death”. These selfless individuals care more about the needs of others than their own personal desires. However, there are people who take advantage of one’s honorable nature and use it for their own gain. This concern of acting honorably is shown in Brutus, the main character in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

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Antony wants to remind the Romans that he is credible for speaking of Caesar “that love my friend, and that they know full well, that gave me public leave to speak of him” (III.ii.215-216) Antony uses ethos after telling the Romans everything to convince them in being against that conspirators’ that he can speak of Caesar because he was a close friend of Caesar. Antony convinces the Romans to retribute the conspirators’ for what they have done “In every wound of Caesar that should move the stones of Rome to rise and mutiny” (III.ii.225-226) Antony wants revenge and is convincing the Romans to riot by using pathos. Antony wants the Romans to feel sorry about Caesar’s death “here was a Caesar! When comes such another?”

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The Most Sympathetic Character The power of language is used to persuade the audience with facts to back up their opinion towards something. Persuasion empowers an individual to influence others by going out to others and sharing their own experiences and sharing their own opinions but also making sure that they have evidence to back up what they are saying about something. Everyone can easily be persuaded into getting something or thinking something in a different way and that is why the power of language is so important centuries ago and now. Everyone should learn how to differentiate bias information about something or someone in order to be well informed and well educated about something in order to inform others.

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The ambition for more power for a corrupt leader is similar to the reaction of an addict to drugs and expecting him to stop their wrong doing. Multiple cases throughout history have shown great leaders and horrible leaders and many of them started with a sort of vaulting ambition. Even as far back as Julius Caesar we have seen examples of this since he expanded Rome to the superpower it was until his death in 44 B.C.. Even more recently we have examples like Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Bennito Mussolini where they used authoritarian powers to try and hold complete power. Some of these leaders had no conscience and could not understand or feel guilt, while some could this made them eventually go crazy when they realized what had happened.

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Marcus Brutus’ Manipulation Manipulation:to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, this quote is entirely true. We are also introduced into the idea of manipulation very early in the play, which impacts the plot. The play is about Marcus Brutus, the tragic hero, being manipulated into being in a conspiracy to assassinate Gaius Julius Caesar, a politician for Rome.

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From the very beginning of this tragedy, we can already observe the detrimental effects that his flaw has on his power and reputation. In Antony and Cleopatra, the wavering loyalties are explored which adds to our understanding of another flaw within human nature. The simile in Caesar’s cynical observations of loyalty, “like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, “ Shakespeare compares the loyalty of men to the tide, never still, but wavering and serving whoever is in a higher position. Caesar’s comment later relates to Enobarbus’ harsh self-criticism, “I am alone the villain of the earth.” The metaphor conveys his belief that his betrayal of Antony was an act of evil which he later pays with his

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There’s a quote that has been my motto for a long time. The original writer is unknown because several people say it and change or add stuff to it but it says, “The best revenge is no revenge.” This might be how I live my life but that was not the case for Mark Antony. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony wants revenge for Caesar's death because Antony is so super loyal to Caesar. Shakespeare uses this loyalty to show how being too loyal to someone or something can sometimes shield what is right and cause you to do something that is not at all good for you or the people around you.

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In William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony wants revenge on the conspirators who killed Caesar. Following Julius Caesar's death, Mark Antony uses many different rhetorical devices such as pathos and ethos in his speech that help convince the Plebeians to go against the conspirators. Attempting to draw the emotions out of the plebeians, Mark Antony uses pathos to persuade them. Mark Antony says, “ My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me” (3.2. 106-107). This statement emphasizes how much Antony loved Caesar and the grief he is now feeling that his closest friend is dead.

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Let not a traitor live!” (Shakespeare). The citizens’ perspective changed once again in a matter of moments. They no longer have any love for Brutus, but hate. They want to avenge Caesar and will do all that they can to do so.

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There are two reasons why Antony gave this speech. The first was to get back at Brutus for murdering his beloved friend, and making him pay for it. The main reason Antony gave this speech is because he had a greed for power. He thought that if he could get all the plebeians on his side, that they would attack the conspirators and trust Antony, therefore making it easy to take on the spot for power. “Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards, For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.

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