how did Antony play his safe manipulation tricks during his speech
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This part of the speech really caught my attention. Mark Antony makes light of the brutally of what actually happened. He makes sure that his Plebeian audience knows of the brutality of Caesar’s death. Antony is uniting the people in this speech, like any great leader would do; he makes them realize that when Caesar was wronged and fell, they all did as well. The traitors not only affected Caesar, but they affected his people, and Antony makes sure to note that in a way that the Plebeians finally realize the truth, which inspires and motivates them to rebel against those that they should be angry with: Brutus and Cassius.
So, while there was a lot of other wonderful rhetorical strategies used, and a lot of other manipulative speech, I find that these phrases highlighted above were really crucial in looking at this scene and understanding the manipulation that caused the Plebeian’s to bounce back and forth between who they were siding with.
Sorry this is so long, ahhhh!