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Mark Antony's Speech
Throughout Shakespeare's masterpiece, Brutus makes many decisions that lead to his own downfall. He refuses to make an oath among the conspirators, he declines the other conspirators when they propose to add Cicero to their secretive group, he also refuses to kill Antony because they would then be portrayed as "butchers", but the biggest and most grave mistake he makes is when he makes the decision to overrule Cassius's opinion and allow Mark Antony to speak at the late Caesar's funeral. Although Brutus devises strict rules that Antony must follow, Brutus's plan is overthrown when Antony uses devices within his skills as a speaker to win the crowd over and turn them against the conspirators.
Brutus stated to Mark Antony prior to his speech, "You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,"(III, ii, 245). Mark Antony does not fail to adhere to those conditions. To win his audience over to his side, he slyly uses rhetorical questions in......

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