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In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare shows speech making as brain surgery: rhetoric can transform the neurological structure of an audience.
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Julius Caesar
In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare shows speech making as brain surgery: rhetoric can transform the neurological structure of an audience.
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Brutus uses antithesis to separate honorable Brutus from ambitious Caesar; Antony uses chiasmus to collapse that separation and make Brutus look more ambitious.
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The Jesus narrative is constructed to conflate Jesus with Socrates and Julius Caesar: a persecuted truth-teller and a betrayed political founder.
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Jiang presents Caesar as a historical problem organized by three questions: his motivation, his exceptional success, and why intimates who received mercy still assassinated him.
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Sulla's solution was proscription: a public list of enemies whom anyone could kill for state reward and confiscated property, including the young Julius Caesar as a target.
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Jiang says Lucius Brutus' memory later frames the assassination of Julius Caesar, linking republican founding myth to later anti-Caesar action.
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"...All right. So another example of the power of Shakespeare is Julius Caesar. I'm not sure if you read Julius Caesar in school, but..."
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"...kill him. And Brutus and Cassius and all the conspirators kill Julius Caesar. And then Brutus and Cassius think this is over. Okay? But..."
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"Brutus will be the first to give a speech. And then he'll be followed by Mark Anthony. So the strategy of Brutus is to..."
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"If Caesar is dead, we will continue to live as free men. Okay? Two exclusionary ideas developed by Brutus. Now, what Mark Anthony says,..."
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"...you another question. Who else was betrayed by his own followers? Julius Caesar, right? You see how clever this is? The two most famous..."
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"Okay, so today we are doing Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar is considered the greatest historical figure of..."
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"...so my central argument to you today is that, why did Julius Caesar was so successful? Because he was a myth maker. Okay, myth..."
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"...those individuals who was designated to be proscribed, his name is Julius Caesar. And he's about 19 years old now. And Julius Caesar comes..."
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"...the memory and honor of Lucius Brutus that they would assassinate Julius Caesar. But we'll discuss this next class. Okay. So, the king's army..."
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"...were not aware um of god okay and these people include julius caesar okay so julius caesar is in limbo along other great historical..."
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"And Brutus and Cassius are the ones who betrayed Julius Caesar. Okay? So if you just accept the logic, you would think, okay. Well,..."
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"...course, is Augustus Caesar. Right? And Augustus Caesar, his father is Julius Caesar. And in fact, Augustus Caesar made Julius Caesar god of his..."
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