Marc Antony's Motivations In Julius Ceasar

William Shakespeare was well known for incorporating raw human nature into his plays. In the play Julius Caesar, Marc Antony is one of the well-crafted characters. As Shakespeare illustrates the three different methods to gaining belief he also shows the three different modes used to display traits of characters. In the play Julius Caesar Shakespeare tries to make the audience think about emotion and logic in a situation that is far from black and white. …

…to the idea in the audiences mental picture of his extraordinary talent for manipulation. Everyone with an opinion has been manipulative at some point and everyone with a soul or a mind has been manipulated. By using the forms of ethos, pathos, and logos properly as Shakespeare had Antony do one could convince another anything. One could even convince another that someone was manipulative by simply being manipulative. Now that is something to think about.