I thoroughly enjoy the play Julius Caesar, and the way that Shakespeare makes all of the characters real to people. When the Brutus and Antony speak at the funeral, I believe that it shows a huge part of Roman society. The main way to gain power in Rome was through oratory, and that is the one thing that sways the crowd throughout this play. It's almost disgusting how fickle the common people of Rome are, as they are constantly swayed by one speech after another. Throughout the speeches of Antony and Brutus we see this most strikingly, but before that we see the fickleness from the fight and win over Pompey, the convincing of Brutus, and every other scene involving the commoners.
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