In contrast Louw’s photograph only presents one negative perspective. Each text was composed in different time period and medium, thus they use a variety of different techniques to convey their perspectives of the assassination of the greats. In the first extract from Julius Caesar Shakespeare presents a positive perspective on the assassination of Caesar. This is achieved through the conspirators’ view that they were doing a good deed. Casca asserts that, “he who cuts off twenty years of life, Cuts off so many years of fearing death.” This reasoning sets up Brutus’ statement of, “then death is a benefit…we are Caesars friends, that have abridged his time of fearing death.” The repetition of “fearing death” highlights their justification that the assassination is a good deed.
After Caesar is killed, Antony becomes very mournful and outrage by the treachery of the conspirators that killed Caesar. Antony asks for just to a speech at Caesars funeral and Brutus grants him that one wish. Antony is a very intelligent man and he has the ability to manipulate a crowd with his speeches. For example in Act 3 During Antony speech he says But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
Antony’s eulogy to the plebeians is used as a device to show Antony’s opinion of Caesar as a noble and worthy leader and contradict Brutus’s tyrannical classification. Brutus revolves his speech around Caesar’s ambitions and their damage to Rome. Contrastingly, Antony repetitively presents the rhetorical question, “Was this ambition” to the audience which refutes the core of Brutus’s argument and encourages the audience to question Brutus, helping Antony build up imagery of a faultless Caesar brutally murdered. Furthermore, Antony repetitively directs the audience towards the body of the murdered Caesar stating “what a rent the envious Casca made”. While this device may be devalued in the textual format of the play, when performed in the theatrical environment with effective props, it is highly confronting to the audience and further directs the
The online transcript of Mitt Romney’s 2012 acceptance speech, with a section open for comments, represents conflicting perspectives through internal contradictions inherent to the political speech form and the medium of production - an internet site with a comments section. The speech also reveals how the manipulation of language can represent a single perspective, countering any conflict. In this case, the singular perspective is that Romney is the candidate. The public and private persona a leader possesses is often in conflict, with the public curious to know both in order to accurately assess the character’s ability to lead. The dramatic form through which Shakespeare represents Caesar allows both the public and private representations of Caesar to be evaluated by the audience.
Brutus Versus Antony In act III, both Marcus Brutus and Marcus Antonius give eulogies after the great Julius Caesar falls. Brutus delivers his eulogy first; Antony speaks second. True of their characters, their speeches are both tremendously different. Each man uses his own strategies to gain the crowd’s approval. However, Antony’s speech is overwhelmingly more convincing.
Although Brutus initially was the approval of the Roman citizens Antony’s sarcastic speech made the Romans second guess if the assassination of Caesar was right. In the speech Mark Antony gave in Act 3 Scene 2 he was speaking about Caesar being ambitious and Brutus being an honorable man but keeps repeating it in a sarcastic tone. For instances Antony said “But Brutus says he is ambitious and Brutus is a honorable man”, then again Brutus said “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man” because it’s repeated a couple throughout Antony’s speech. As well in Act 3 Scene 2 Brutus said “And for my sake, stay here with Antony Do grace to Caesar’s corpse, and grace his speech. Tending to Caesar’s glories, which Mark Antony By our permission is allowed to make.
The passage begins with a speech given by Brutus to the conspirators, followed by the debate of involving Cicero in the conspiracy, and the dilemma of whether Marc Antony should be killed along with Caesar. Shakespeare uses dialogue and various figures of speech to bring out an emotional response in the audience. Brutus’s speeches show us the power of his words and how easily they can have an influence on the rest of the conspirators. He delivers a highly effective speech on why Romans like them must not take oaths, because the thought of the future state of Rome under Caesar’s tyrannical rule must motivate them to keep their word. He states that oaths are only for cowards and feeble old people, and people who cannot be trusted for they would otherwise have broken it.
With the genesis of parliamentary government, Elizabethans individuals experienced justice not as the divine commandment handed down from a divine monarch but as the decision of a mere human, and thus fallible. The revenge tragedy fulfills a desire for direct retribution and a direct administration of justice that appealed to the Elizabethan audience. Sacks discusses The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus very effectively, but his culminating work on Hamlet received the bulk of my attentions, being the most relevant to my research. Sacks argues that Hamlet is unable to mourn effectively due to the strains that his familial relations place upon him. The language of mourning is
The use of "sacred" together with the support of the church show that Henry is a greatly powerful and respected man. Furthermore , the character who says this is a powerful a man himself which emphasises Henry's level of authority. This is also the case in Julius Caesar with Caesar's relationship with Antony.In both cases Shakespeare's presentation of power establishes a firm base for means of corruption. Firstly, Shakespeare presents power as being corrupting in Henry V. This can be seen in Act 4 Scene 7 when Henry says,' Then every soldier kill his prisoners.' This is against the code of conduct and is a change from the chivalrous King seen at the beginning of the play.
"Why, there was a crown offered him: and being offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand" (I,II). Caesar's act was served to satisfy the citizens of Rome but he knew his power and authority was limitless. Rome will always be persuaded by Caesar because Caesar has ultimate authority. Brutus is using logos to convince Rome that the death of Caesar was for their good. Brutus is using an example of anaphora to convince the people