Brutus Reasoning In Julius Caesar

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In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Brutus uses a combination of logic and reasoning in his approach to ensure that the crowd understands why Julius Caesar had to be killed. Firstly, Brutus tells the audience that he was a close friend of Caesar and along with that, being a respected figure enticed the people into listening and hear him out before making a decision. He then goes along to say, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men” (III.ii.11-14). In this statement it is prevalent that from the beginning Brutus’s motivation is to assure that the crowd is aware that he had no evil intentions for murdering Caesar

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