Murphy 1 Patrick Murphy Mrs. Comm Honors English 10 5 April 2023 Antony Persuasive Devices Essay Caesar has been assassinated, and the people are left bewildered. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare wields the appeal to logic, emotion, and ethics to persuade the people and even the reader to change their minds. In Antony’s entrancing speech to the crowd, he heartily persuades the crowd to shift viewpoints on the topic of Caesar’s assassination. He does so by utilizing pathos, logos, and ethos to influence the people. Antony entrances the crowd by utilizing pathos in his speech. He uses this strategy when he speaks about how he was great friends with Caesar and it causes him great sorrow to see him gone. “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar…” (3.2.103). By noting that Antony’s heart is with Caesar, he evokes a sense of sadness within the audience. He persuades the people by letting them know that he emotionally sides with Caesar. “For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all, For when the noble Caesar saw him …show more content…
There are multiple occurrences of this type of persuasion in his speech. “Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -- For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men -- Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me.” (3.2.78-82). In an effort to boost his credibility among the crowd, Antony calls Brutus and his men honorable. He does this in an almost sarcastic manner, in an attempt to persuade the crowd. “I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.” (3.2.97-98). Antony states this to prove that he is to be trusted. He wants the crowd to think that they can trust his judgment on the assassination. Antony uses an ethical appeal multiple times throughout his speech in an attempt to persuade the
Izabella Figueroa Mrs. Linda Comm Honors English 10 12 April 2023 Antony’s preeminent strategy A rhetorical device, according to www.vocabulary.com, is “a use of language that is intended to have an effect on it’s audience.” In Antony’s persuasive speech to the citizens of Rome, from “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” Antony utilizes the rhetorical devices of logos, pathos, and ethos to argue that Caesar wasn’t really ambitious, and there was no need for him to be murdered by the conspirators. Doing so forces the audience to consider his claim and change their previous viewpoints.
Ethos, or ethical appeal, is a very important element of a rhetorical analysis essay. Antony establishes his credibility by talking about his relationship with Caesar and his loyalty to Caesar. He repeatedly calls Caesar his friend or a man of
Antony gives the plebeians factual evidence proving that Caesars was not ambitious. Antony does this to clear Caesar's name proving how he wasn't ambitious. The plebeians do believe Antony now sense he have them actual proof that he was not ambitious. Before Caesar died all of “[The plebeians] did love him once”(Julius Caesar 3.2.111) inferring that the plebeians should not change their minds just because someone tells them too, they should believe in themselves. Antony is trying to convince the plebeians that Caesar was not a bad man and that they should not change their mind just because someone tells them too.
In the Shakespeare play, “Julius Caesar” many types of rhetorical devices are used by numerous characters to persuade the audience. Marc Antony uses all these rhetorical devices to their fullest when talking to a crowd about the murder of Caesar and how these conspirators should be held accountable. The devices that Antony effortlessly crafts into his argument are irony, in the first half of his speech, and the props he uses, in the second half of his speech. Marc Antony uses verbal irony to indirectly led the crowd to new conclusions about the conspirators.
In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, Caesar's greatest supporter Antony expertly utilizes repetition and pathos to incite a once-peaceful crowd of mourners to a violent angry mob. In the beginning of Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar he says “Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest - / For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men” (3.2.81-83). Antony begins by acknowledging that he has been given the permission to speak at the funeral and he notes that they are “honorable men”. However, as the speech progresses, Antony subtly alters his tone each time he repeats the phrase. Every time Antony repeats that phrase he adds a note of sarcasm.
He first shows his use of pathos when carrying the dead body of Caesar in his arms, as if he were a baby, and placing him right in front of the crowd. Pathos, which is the way a character shows persuasion, motivation, or information through emotion, was used by Mark Antony to make both Brutus and the conspirators think differently about if Caesar really should have been murdered. This type of rhetorical device is meant to get the audience to feel a certain way. Mark Antony does just this, and everyone is dead silent, since they are overwhelmed with the grief they are seeing before their eyes: a leader who was tragically murdered. Mark Antony also uses emotion to convey to the audience that they have just lost a great leader.
He attended this burial to put things right for Caesar and for the public to see. With the help of his diction, he can draw the audience's attention and pique their interest in learning more about the excellent things that Caesar performed before his death. Although Antony does not disparage Brutus, he does call him "an honorable man" (III.ii.84). Antony uses irony to get attention from the populace rather than breaking the rule he was given. He uses logical appeal to dissect Brutus's proof in order to support his argument.
“My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it comes back to me” (3.2.113-114). Antony is bringing up his close relationship with Caesar and crying in front of the audience shows how mournful he is at Caesar's death, and that they should feel the same, because of a similar emotional connection Caesar. By using Pathos he is able to turn the confused and mournful crowd against those who killed
Throughout Antony's speech, he manipulates the plebeians to avenge Caesar's death and overthrow the conspirators by emphasizing rhetorical strategies like word choice and tone. At the beginning of his speech, Antony tricks the plebeians
And sure he is an honourable man” (3.2.1251). Refusing the crown 3 separate times is a grand show of honor and humbleness that Caesar did possess. Antony’s speech in “Julius Caesar” effectively uses pathos, ethos, and logos to persuade the audience towards his viewpoint. By appealing to their emotions, using his credibility and establishing his connection with Caesar, and presenting logical arguments, Antony successfully convinces the audience that Caesar was a noble and honorable leader who did not deserve his death. His clever use of persuasion strategies is evidence of the complexity of characters and the impact of speeches that still engage audiences centuries
One of the three literary devices he uses in his speech is ethos. Speaking to the crowd, Antony says, “He
While Antony is in his beginning parts of addressing the crowd he declares, “I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honorable men: I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To wrong the dead…” (3.1.120-124). Here Antony is saying that he is not going to be malicious and get revenge for Caesar. Antony is going to be the bigger person and has no intent of harming the conspirators. He only wants the best for Rome and its people.
Repetition is seen throughout Anthony’s speech. He keeps saying that “Brutus is an honorable man”(Shakespeare 47). after his statements. This creates verbal irony that shows Antony’s true feelings towards Brutus. The tone of manipulation is shown well here.
William Shakespeare, in his tragedy Julius Caesar, uses the rhetorical devices of a rhetorical question, repetition of the word ambitious, and direct reference in Antony 's speech to instigate the plebeians and persuade them to rebel against the conspirators. Antony pulls on the pathos, ethos, and logos of the audience to get them to exile the conspirators. Shakespeare uses a rhetorical question in Antony’s speech to get the plebeians to notice the wrongdoings of the conspirators and excite them to rebel. Antony discusses the money that Caesar left to the countrymen, and with sarcasm he states, “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?” (3.2.99).
0, 11, Rhetorical Analysis (ു Persuasive speeches have been used for a long period of time, their main purpose so to make the audience do something and abide by what the speakers saying. Most famo ജി s history or famous people in general, such as MLK Jr. or Adolf Hitler, have proven that this ty” of speech is very strong and powerful, making people revolt or simply fight a peaceful” this was capable of occurring with the use of words and persuasion. In Shakespeare's The tragedy of Julius Caesar, Antony delivers a more powerful and stronger approach to Caesars death with the use of the three appeals, ethos, pathos, logos. Brutus was a very powerful speaker with the use of ethos, he was a mainly an ethical man.