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Mark Antony: Unscrupulous Denotation
Clara Chu
Ms.Courey
English10 Honors, Period 7
10 February 2015
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Unscrupulous denotation is having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair. While Machiavellian denotation is cunning, scheming. Mark Antony is both a unscrupulous person and Machiavellian. He is manipulative by using rhetoric devices to manipulate people, and Antony is also liar because he talks behind his allies back or he tricks his enemies, and finally he is not a faithful to his country when he causes chaos and harms the citizens.
One of the reason Mark Antony is unscrupulous is because he is deceitful and backstabbing. For instance when Antony is talking with Octavius he verbally abuses Lepidus, an ally “The threefold world divided, he should stand/ One
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