In the play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare creates two speeches projected to the people spoken at Caesar's funeral, in both these monologues the characters use subtle and not so subtle manipulation in order to sway the audience in their favor. The first to speak is Brutus, in which he defends his murder of Caesar. Brutus claims the man was full of dangerous ambition and that if kept alive this ambition would lead to the destruction of Rome. Therefore, although he loved Caesar as Caesar loved him, he honorably took up the task of eradicating the dictator in order to save all Romans from a life lived in slavery. He uses the word love to pardon a presumably heinous action, one that one could assume was filled with greed …show more content…
He agrees that ambition must've been Caesars greatest fault although he later speculates that many of the acts Caesar committed weren't actually motivated by ambition and if it were that ambition couldn't be so bad. he states his proof in quotes such as these "He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:'' and "I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?" although, never coming up with a definitive answer. Antony uses repetition many times during his eulogy, while discussing several times the so-called ambitious acts of Caesar he mentions each time that however kind Caesar might have been because Brutus is an honorable man he wishes not to discredit them. he simply wishes to state what he believes to be true and to share the grief he feels with the countrymen who once loved Caesar as well. This leads to the words “honorable" and "ambition" to mean nothing by the end of his first speech. He's made it confusing to decipher whether or not Caesar's acts were truly ambitious and if not it puts Brutus' honorability into question. In his long tangents to come he leaves many of his thoughts unfinished which leaves his