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... Brutus , and many moving private glimpses bring him close to us , but it is also a play of political persuasion and rhetoric , directed by one politician at another or at the people . " 3 We even hear Brutus persuading himself with ...
... Brutus , and many moving private glimpses bring him close to us , but it is also a play of political persuasion and rhetoric , directed by one politician at another or at the people . " 3 We even hear Brutus persuading himself with ...
Page 188
... Brutus , the thinking man , is repeatedly in error , not least when appealing to reason . Troilus ' vision disintegrates , Hector sweeps his own good arguments aside , and the policy of the politic Greeks fails . Questions as to their ...
... Brutus , the thinking man , is repeatedly in error , not least when appealing to reason . Troilus ' vision disintegrates , Hector sweeps his own good arguments aside , and the policy of the politic Greeks fails . Questions as to their ...
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... Brutus , see both sides of the question , and suffer a division of sympathy ' : ' Brutus and Macbeth ' , The Wheel of Fire , p . 137. René E. Fortin describes Julius Caesar as ' a deliberate experiment in point of view , intended to ...
... Brutus , see both sides of the question , and suffer a division of sympathy ' : ' Brutus and Macbeth ' , The Wheel of Fire , p . 137. René E. Fortin describes Julius Caesar as ' a deliberate experiment in point of view , intended to ...
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