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The Crowd In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

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In life convincing a crowd to see your views can be a very hard thing, especially if you are trying to convince a crowd to change how they view a group or a person completely without getting yourself killed. In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony changes the viewpoint on how the crowd perceives the crowd by using rhetorical devices in his speech of his use of verbal irony, pathos, and repetition to anger the crowd about the conspiratorś guilt of killing the Julius Caesar.

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