Brutus is worried about his public duty and is prepared to act for the common good of Rome. Brutus uses his patriotism and his love for Rome to move the crowd to support the brutal murder of Caesar Brutus' speech starts of with reason and order, he tells the crowd to “censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses”.
Marc Antony's rhetorical address to the Roman people is a persuasive argument against Brutus and the other conspirators, an address that discredits them. Rather than acting nobly, Antony argues, the assassins killed <u>Julius Caesar</u> in order to gain the power for themselves. With verbal irony, Antony repeatedly refers to Brutus as "an honorable man" and states that the "ambition" of which Caesar has been accuses should have been made "of sterner stuff." With dramatic irony, it is later discovered that Antony himself covets power and is, himself, most ambitious. For, he incites the crowd to civil war by telling them that Caesar loved them and left money for them in his will, suggesting that Brutus and the others were going to keep this money.
The appearance of Akaky as a ghost at the end of the story is a product of ... A central theme or purpose of Gogol's short story is to expose people's lack of compassion. ... The techniques of humor and satire would help you address the topic.
