Similarities Between Julius Caesar And Sojourner Truth

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Both Mark Antony from Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" and Sojourner Truth used identification and description to prove a point in their speech. In a way, their usage of identifying and describing is similar. Both Antony and Sojourner identify moments that contradict what everyone else is saying and describes them to prove a point. In the play Antony said: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambitious? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious…. (3.2.92-97) Here Antony has contradicted what Brutus had said about Caesar being ambitious by explaining how Caesar refused a crown three times. An example of when Sojourner is contradicting what people is saying is when she says, "I have borne thirteen children…And ain't I a woman?" People during her time did not validate the fact that she is a woman because of the color of her skin, so she wanted to contradict what everyone else is saying by describing the things that made her a woman. …show more content…

An obvious difference that I saw was that Antony identified and described things that talked about who Caesar was as a person, whereas Sojourner used it to compare how she was treated as an African American woman versus how white women were treated. One example is when Antony says, "He hath brought many captives home to Rome, / Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill / Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?" (3.2.87-89). He goes on to identify and describes other moments that talk about Caesar. Sojourner said, "That man over there says women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches…. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles…And ain't I a woman?" Sojourner was trying to point out the different way that she was treated because of how she looked and who she