In What Ways Does The Language And Imagery Of Antony'S Speech Demonstrate His Manipulation Of The Crowd

In What Ways Does the Language and Imagery of Antony’s Speech Demonstrate His Manipulation of the Crowd?

In what ways does the language and imagery of Antony’s speech demonstrate his manipulation of the crowd? In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral, despite all his protestations to the contrary, is fuelled by one purpose: vengeance to those who murdered his beloved Caesar. He uses combinations of verbal irony, repetitive diction, and heavy emphasis on emotions to sway his audience. He does so without guilt or remorse towards the people to whom the crowd will direct

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The Ways That the Language and Imagery of the Speech Demonstrate Antony’s Manipulation of the Crowd? (Julius Caesar Act3:Scene2)

In what ways does the language and imagery of the speech demonstrate Antony’s manipulation of the crowd? (Act3:Scene2) In this scene, we again see the fickle nature of the Roman people, who follow whoever is the most powerful. Brutus make an error when he speaks first, and then leaves. Antony then manipulates the crowd to the point where they want to riot and take revenge. At first, we see that Brutus thinks will be able to calm the crowd, so that a neat transition of power can happen. But Antony

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Dale Carneigi

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Harold Bloom

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