How Was Antony More Persuasive Than Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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How was Antony more persuasive than Brutus in his speech? Antony had many key things in how he was more persuasive than Brutus. For example, Antony was very emotional and passionate in his speech. Antony used his words very strategically and went off of the crowd's reactions. Antony spoke very positively about Caesar and tried to persuade the crowd into a rebellion. Brutus talked badly about Caesar and the key thing he said was that he is too ambitious. Antony talked positively about Caesar and Brutus did not. Antony talked about what Caesar left for the people of Rome and talked about how he was such a great man and leader to the people of Rome. Antony brought up that Caesar left 75 drachmas for each person in Rome. Antony persuaded them …show more content…

Antony was trying to persuade and manipulate the crowd into thinking that Brutus is a very bad guy now and that an honorable man would not kill Caesar. Antony is trying to get the people of Rome to rebel against Brutus and the Conspirators. Antony shook the conspirators hands and said he wanted no harm to make Brutus and the conspirators to think that he only wants peace, but now is getting back at them in trying to get the Romans to rebel because in reality Antony is very angry for the murdering of Caesar. All Brutus was trying to do was get the people of Rome to not hate him and get them on his side but Brutus was not very good in persuading them because all he did was talk bad about Caesar and that is not what the people of Rome want to hear. Also, Brutus was not very passionate and seemed like he didn't care about the speech that …show more content…

Brutus wanted to speak and get out of there. He wanted a short and brief speech to try to get the people of Rome on his side and not mad at him. Antony on the other hand was very passionate about getting his point across. Antony even showed every stab wound and said each conspirator's name at where they stabbed Caesar to fire up the crowd. Antony made it clear that he was not happy and wanted to almost kill the conspirators for what they did. Antony got the crowd fired up and got them to go try and burn all of their houses down. The people of Rome even killed Cinna the poet at the end of Act III because they thought he was Cinna the conspirator because they both had the same name. Some might say that if Brutus would have gone second that would have changed the peoples minds. That is not true though because Antony was so persuasive and good with his words that the people would still feel the same about the conspirators. Brutus was not good with his speech and wouldn't have been able to convince the people of Rome that the murdering of Caesar was for a good

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