Obviously the characters in Shakespeare's play find Mark Antony's speech really

convincing, but Shakespeare wrote the play so that they would. But if you were to

remove the easily swayed audience and replace it with a more objective audience,

Mark Antony's speech would still stand up as a convincing work of rhetoric.

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Tiffany Downs

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5 January, 22:47

Obviously the characters in Shakespeare's play find Mark Antony's speech really

convincing, but Shakespeare wrote the play so that they would. But if you were to

remove the easily swayed audience and replace it with a more objective audience,

Mark Antony's speech would still stand up as a convincing work of rhetoric.

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Layne Schaefer · Answer 1

The reason why I personally disagree with this statement is that Mark Antony's speech wasn't very good and the crowd was just written by Shakespeare to be suddenly convinced.

Explanation:

if you were to remove the easily swayed audience and replace it with a more objective audience, Mark Antony's speech would not still stand up as a convincing work of rhetoric.

The reason why I personally disagree with this statement is that Mark Antony's speech wasn't very good and the crowd was just written by Shakespeare to be suddenly convinced. So I feel if the crowd were actually normal people the story could be different they wouldn't be definitely so.