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Mark Antony Funeral Speech Essay

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JP Walsh
5/20/16
English 2
Mr. Graham

The Gettysburg address, said by 16th President Abraham Lincoln, is arguably one of the greatest speeches throughout all mankind. The speech consists of Abraham Lincoln addressing the people of Gettysburg and the United States of how many men have given their life for standing what they believed in, which was that all men are created equal. President Lincoln relates to all of the lost lives in the civil war just how Mark Antony speaks to honor and bury Caesar. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony finds weak spots in Brutus’s originally funeral speech and counters with his own oration to win over the plebeians. During Brutus’s speech he makes key flaws which ending up being the

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