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Analyzing Brutus The Better Speech

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The Better Speech Plato once said, “Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.” The majority of crowds can be won over by skillfully using rhetoric. Antony knew this and demonstrated it by persuading the common people of Rome with a silver tongue. He understood that most of the commoners were uneducated and lacked reason. He observed their fickle nature before when Caesar defeated Pompey and the people of Rome celebrated the demise of someone they once respected and supported. In Brutus’s speech, he speaks to the plebeians in a way that suggests that they are wise and capable of the ability to reason by saying, “Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge” (III, ii, 16-17). Brutus used ethos when
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