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What Was Brutus Purpose To Sway The Crowd

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Brutus's speech was different than Anthony's speech. But they were also the same in some ways. Ways that they are the same is they both served a purpose to control the crowd. They were different because Brutus spoke first with a hostile crowd who branded him the murderer of Caesar. He ended up swaying the crowd by using rhetorical questions that were out of context and that the crowd couldn't say no to but also by saying that it was Caesar's ambition that led him to his death. Antony used strong, effective metaphors to sway the crowd. Brutus's purpose was to control the crowd which was Antony's purpose also. They wanted to keep the crowd from getting out of control. They wanted to prove that they shouldn't be the ones to be blamed for the
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