The most conflicting speech in the play "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar¨ is the speech that Decius gives to Caesar. This speech comes up when Calpurina, Caesar´s wife, has a dream that Ceaser gets murdered at the senate. She tries to keep him home by explaining how morbid her dream is, but Decius is in charge of getting him to the Senate so he and the other conspirators can murder him there. Calpurnia convinces Caesar to stay at home, so Decius has to give a speech that will get Ceaser to the senate. While Calpurnia has the correct interpretation of her dream, Desius uses persuasive techniques to persuade Caesar to go to the SenateMany persuasive techniques were used but the most persuasive ones were rebuttals and tabloid thinking. In this speech, Decius is trying to convince Caesar to go to the Senate, but …show more content…
This makes it harder to get Caesar to the Senate so he starts to persuade him by using rebuttals. Decius´s speech starts out with "It was a vision fair and fortunate¨(A.2 S2 line 89). Decius turns Calpurnia´s dream into something that Caesar wants, appealing to his emotions because it appeals to his emotions; he becomes more inclined to agree with Decius rather than Calpurnia. This goes against Calpurnia´s interpretation because she says that her dream is full of death and despair. Another example of a rebuttal in Decius´s speech is ¨In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood¨(A.2 S2 lines 91-93). Decius says that the Roman citizens are bathing in Caesar's blood because he is a great leader and has revived Rome. While Calpurnia says that they are stab wounds and the people that are in his blood are the ones that killed Caesar. This also goes against what Calpurnia says about the statue of Caesar. Decius also uses tabloid thinking to create a logical appeal to
Both Calphurnia and Decius use fear as a part of their arguments but, while Calphurnia taps into her own fear for her husband, Decius exposes Caesar’s fears about his reputation. Calphurnia tells Caesar of a dream in which blood was spouting from his body and as a result she argues that he should not go to the Senate House. Caesar, however, is not convinced by this omen because he feels that all events are “purposed by the mighty gods” (Line 16). Here he is claiming that the great, powerful gods would have more important matters to sort out than the life of Caesar. Of course, because Caesar’s true nature is egotistical his contention that he is not important enough to be of concern to the gods reveals his tendency to say things that are inconsistent
According to him, the blood spilling out of the statue is actually rejuvenating the Roman populace, and the grinning Romans are looking for the soul of Caesar. Decius tries to use logical appeal to reinterpret Calpurnia’s dream. “This dream is all amiss interpreted;It was a vision fair and fortunate:Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,In which so many smiling Romans bathed,Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood, and that great men”. (83-90) Decius tries to explain that it is foreshadowing of Caesar's success instead of his death. Which makes Caesar more confident in going to the Senate.
Decius’s statement relies on pathos in order to convince Caesar by telling him that he is not doing this for him but for caesar’s well being. Decius’s states,”it was a vision of fair fortune”(46). In Decius’s statement, he states that Calpurnia's dream is a sight of good fortune. Decius’s statement relies on the power to rebundle in order to convince Caesar by saying that the bad dream is a sign of good fortune when Calpurnia is out of the room . When considering Decius’s reminder about the crowning day, the statement about doing it for Caesar’s well being and the rebundling that the bad dream was actually good
This by Calpurnia 's dream is signified”. Decius meant that that Calpurnia was overreacting to her dream and made more than what it is and, Caesar has nothing to worry
The "his dream is all amiss interpreted; It was a vision fair and fortunate: Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood, and that great men shall press 50 For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance. This by Calphurnia’s dream is signified." in the text is Decius' refutation. This explanation allows him to control Caesar. Decius also knows that Caesar's desire for power is strong, so he says "I have, when you have heard what I can say;
Due to this flaw, it was fate that Caesar would succumb to this and die because his judgement was clouded. Calpurnia uses foreshadowing in her argument, for she talks of omens, but neither Calpurnia nor Caesar knew that her dream was a telling of his fate. This made Decius’ argument seem more realistic, for Calpurnia’s foreshadowing is more abstract while Decius’ claims that the council would look down upon him would seem more sensible. It’s easy to believe that someone is cowardly if they do not show up to an important event due to the possibility of danger, but it’s hard to grasp something that is not set in stone. The dramatic irony would be that Decius is a conspirator and is plotting Caesar's assassination, that was known to the audience yet unknown to the all characters except Decius
Decius is more persuasive than Calphurnia because he uses pathos and ethos to challenge Caesar’s work ethic and manhood. Decius also twists Calphurnia’s dream to manipulate him that her dream does not mean anything. The previous night, Calphurnia has a dream that symbolizes death and many chaotic scenes. She exclaims that to Caesar that he should not go to the senate because she believes that horrid things will happen to him.
This is displayed after he calls Calpurnia’s idea “foolish” because Decius’ social standing, as a man, proved Calpurnia’s suggestion as inferior. The diction of “ashamed” further proves that Caesar thought himself foolish submitting to Calpurnia as a man and Calpurnia, a woman. However, the tone shift in Caesar’s tone of enragement and superiority as opposed to his nature when he in company with the conspirators shows how his respect towards another changes according
CHARACTERS & QUOTES: Casca: Casca tells Brutus and Cassius about how Antony had offered Caesar the crown three times, but Caesar refused to accept it all three times. As the crowd cheered and celebrated the regeneration of Caesar's power, he suddenly fainted. ”The rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty nightcaps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked Caesar, for he swooned and fell down at it.” Before he had fallen he noticed that the crowd had cheered as he rejected the crown causing him to open up his shirt and offer the commoners to cut his throat. Casca is in disbelief at what happened, even though it happened right in front of him.
Essentially Cassius is saying they should go out and say to the public that they have given them freedom! He thinks that what he did saved the people of rome but all it really did wass lead to a power struggle and greedy people trying to take over rome. Cassius is the most responsible for the death of Julius Caesar because he participated and played a large roll in his
Decius’s argument is ultimately more convincing to Caesar because he presents a more practical situation for Caesar vs Calpurnia, and Caesar's wisdom has withered through power making him vulnerable.
In doing this Decius took Calpurnia’s dream in which Caesar’s statue was pouring out blood and the people of the city went and drank from it, and turned it into not a bad, but a good omen. How so? He lied that this dream was only of the revival of Rome and not Caesar’s fall. Decius did this using a false interpretation that appealed to Caesar. Rather Calpurnia simply wished to see her dear husband again.
This is a speech made by Cassius in the play Julius Ceaser. Cassius was one of the main conspirators in the assassination of Julius Ceaser, he was also one of his oldest friends and a fellow politician. Throughout the play Cassius is displayed as smart and manipulative, and it is him that convinces Brutus, a respected roman senator and one of Ceaser’s closest friends to turn against him and join the conspiracy against him. Cassius was shown as being jealous of Ceaser’s power and popularity and believes that his rule is a danger to the republic.
While Decius is speaking with Caesar, trying to flatter Caesar with the use of rhetoric into going to the capitol on The Ides of March, Caesar becomes flattered and agrees to Decius’s request after Decius has stated “Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck/Reviving blood, and that great men shall press. ”(39 Decius). Later in the play, a man Metellus is attempting to gain his brother freedom from banishment by using rhetoric upon Caesar,Caesar denies his request and declares “Be not fond,/ To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood” (43 Caesar). Caesar is ultimately manipulated by Decius’s use of rhetoric, but his one-sided arrogance still leads him to a conclusion, that he is not fooled by flattering. Caesar’s inability to be flattered is false, the rhetoric used upon him by intentful characters in the play often times leads to his trickery, his proclamation of his inability to be flattered contradicts his true feelings.
Decius wanted more so to obliterate Caesar. As Decius is saying in the play, he will be laughing and affronting others for not liking Caesar. Decius