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What is Shakespeare's purpose behind the war of words between Mark Antony and Octavius and Brutus and Cassius at the

start of act 5 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?


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Shakespeare uses the war of words to show that these men of power destroyed the Republic; rhetoric has been replaced by petty insults.

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