Julius Caesar Persuasive Essay

The most conflicting speech in the play "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar¨ is the speech that Decius gives to Caesar. This speech comes up when Calpurina, Caesar´s wife, has a dream that Ceaser gets murdered at the senate. She tries to keep him home by explaining how morbid her dream is, but Decius is in charge of getting him to the Senate so he and the other conspirators can murder him there. Calpurnia convinces Caesar to stay at home, so Decius has to give a speech that will get Ceaser to the senate. While Calpurnia has the correct interpretation of her dream, Desius uses persuasive techniques to persuade Caesar to go to the SenateMany persuasive techniques were used but the most persuasive ones were rebuttals and tabloid thinking. In this speech, Decius is trying to convince Caesar to go to the Senate, but

This makes it harder to get Caesar to the Senate so he starts to persuade him by using rebuttals. Decius´s speech starts out with "It was a vision fair and fortunate¨(A.2 S2 line 89). Decius turns Calpurnia´s dream into something that Caesar wants, appealing to his emotions because it appeals to his emotions; he becomes more inclined to agree with Decius rather than Calpurnia. This goes against Calpurnia´s interpretation because she says that her dream is full of death and despair. Another example of a rebuttal in Decius´s speech is ¨In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood¨(A.2 S2 lines 91-93). Decius says that the Roman citizens are bathing in Caesar's blood because he is a great leader and has revived Rome. While Calpurnia says that they are stab wounds and the people that are in his blood are the ones that killed Caesar. This also goes against what Calpurnia says about the statue of Caesar. Decius also uses tabloid thinking to create a logical appeal to