Shakespeare exposes the cutthroat politics of Rome through the speeches of Brutus and Antony in his play Julius Caesar. This play epitomizes the benefits of using rhetorical devices in a persuasive speech. Antony applies the modes ethos, logos, and pathos to establish credibility, provide evidence, and evoke emotion throughout his eulogy to Caesar. Preceding Antony’s speech was that of the senator, and friend of Caesar, Brutus. Conclusively, Antony’s use of rhetorical devices surpasses Brutus’s; Antony successfully persuades the crowd that Brutus’s speech posed as a clever ruse to justify his cold-blooded murder.
In Act 3, Scene 2 of the tragedy of Julius Caesar written by Shakespeare, there are 2 very important speeches that shape the countrymen’s view on the death of Caesar. Marcus Brutus gives the first speech in an attempt to justify the murder he and his fellow conspirators just committed and the second speech is given by Mark Antony to open the citizen’s eyes to just how dishonorable and heinous the crime these men committed was. Both men use many rhetorical strategies in their speeches such as syntax to create juxtaposition and word choice to highlight the similarities and differences between the audience and the speaker in order to create an effect of either superiority or relatability to the audience. Each speech was effective in persuading the people to agree with a certain view, however in the end Mark Antony gave the speech that won the crowd.
In Act I, Scene ii, Cassius primarily employs ethos to gain Brutus's attention, logos to contest Caesar's power, and pathos to arouse Brutus’s passion. The use of ethos drove Brutus to listen and become a conspirator. Lines such as “ were I a common laughter, or did use / To stale with ordinary oaths my love to every protester …, then hold me dangerous” (I, ii, 72 - 78) instantly buys Brutus’s trust.
In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, the tragedy of Julius Caesar’s death occurs. Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus each gave a funeral speech. While both the speeches were well spoken, Mark Antony’s ended up being the better speech. Antony’s better use and variety of ethos, pathos, and logos, his use of figurative language, and the comparison between Antony’s and Brutus’s speeches proves that Antony’s speech is in the end better than Brutus’s speech. Antony’s speech uses ethos to show everyone around him that he is their friend, and he understands what they are going through; also Antony uses ethos to get the citizens to listen to him, because while Brutus says he is honorable, Antony says that he is with them and where they stand in
After Brutus murders Julius Caesar, in Act 3 scene 2, he begins to justify his actions to the citizens using logos. He exemplifies his use of logos when he questions the citizens, “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” (Shakespeare 3, 2, 12-14). Brutus asks this to prove that it was the right thing to kill Caesar. If Caesar had lived, he would have became a dictator and enslaved every Roman citizen.
Act III, Scene 2 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Antony's speech effectively develops and supports the central idea of turning the people against Brutus and honoring Caesar, through his use of emotional appeal, rhetorical questions, and loaded words. Brutus manipulated the people but Antony uses good reasoning to turn the people against Brutus. Antony masterfully employs emotional appeal to evoke strong feelings in the audience and encourage them to turn against Brutus. “For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, ingratitude, more strong than traitor’s arms, quite vanqished him.” Therefore the noble Caesar so who stab him and brutus was his friend and did him wrong. ”
In the tragedy, Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, two men, Brutus and Antony, use many different techniques to manipulate the minds of the people. Some of these techniques included in their speeches are ethos, logos, and pathos. Both of them appeal to these three rhetorical strategies in their language, but indeed want exceedingly different outcomes. To start off, Brutus applies ethos, the appeal to knowledge, to his speech when he says, “Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe” (III,ii.
Marissa Gill Mr. McNulty G4 Mark Antony used numerous rhetorical strategies to take control of the Plebeian crowd’s minds and lead them into a furious frenzy. In the book Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony attempted to undo the idea of an ambitious Caesar that was painted in their heads by Brutus in his previous speech. Mark Antony did this in his own speech to persuade the crowd that Caesar shouldn't have been murdered and that Brutus was deceiving them for his own gain. Antony used pathos, metaphors, and repetition to prove that Caesar was a good man who loved his people, held himself to the same standards as them, and implied that the men who killed him were not honorable.
In Brutus’s famous funeral speech he announced, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” Caesar has just come back from defeating the ruler of Rome, Pompey; he is now the head of Rome. Not everyone in the city adores him as a commander. Brutus and a group of citizens form a plot to murder him at the base of Pompey’s statue. These men are now wanted for the death of Caesar.
The well-beloved king of Rome was murdered, leaving the decision of who would take his place in the hands the people. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Marc Antony and Brutus give funeral speeches after the death of Julius Caesar. Their goal is to sway the minds of the people to stand on their side, and in the end, Antony has the people exactly where he wants them. Antony dominates the stage with the art of persuasion through his distinguished use of rhetorical devices. Antony outdid Brutus with his strategic application of syntax throughout his speech.
Brutus and Antony use ethos, logos, and pathos in their speeches to convince the commoners of their side of the story. One person just so happens to be more convincing than the other. Using ethos,
In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar one of the main characters Caesar is killed in Scene 3 act 2.Then Brutus and Antony both give speeches about how bad they feel. Brutus gives a good speech by using all three of the rhetorical appeals to persuade the crowd to want to listen to what he say by using logos,ethos,pathos to his advantage. Brutus gives a better speech that draws the audience attention,Antony not as much. Therefor here are some very valid points on why Brutus’s speech used the Rhetorical Appeals better.
Worried that the crowd had been completely convinced by Brutus’s words, Antony had to persuade them to be on his side, so he began his speech by appealing to their emotions or pathos. He begins his speech by calling them “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”. Being classified as his friends, Romans, and countrymen is a compliment to most people, and appeals to their emotions by feeling as if you have a strong bond with one another. By showing them that he has a bond with them, he is showing them he is not there to change their mind, but instead to talk to them as the “friends” that they are. Later, he uses empathy by telling the crowd, “You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;”.
After reviewing the speeches of Brutus and Mark Antony and their use of pathos, ethos, and logos, the actions and reactions of the crowd clearly show that Antony is the more persuasive speaker. Antony brings up topics but says he should not talk about it because it would hurt the honorable Brutus but the crowd’s curiosity allows him to talk about certain topics. Antony brings up the will but says he will not read it because it would hurt Brutus, the crowd demands that the will be read which is exactly what he wants. Brutus and the other conspirators knows that the crowd could easily turn against them because of how effective of a speaker Antony is, which is one reason why Brutus left when Antony's speech started.
Brutus & Antony’s funeral speeches dissected. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Brutus’s speech was less effective because he kept repeating the same thing, Caesar was ambitious, and he tried to use logos to persuade them. Whereas Antony’s speech was effective because he got into the commoners' emotions and riled them up. Antony also used logos, ethos, and pathos more than Brutus did. Brutus’s speech focused on the fact that Caesar was ambitious enough that he had to be killed before he could do anything bad to Rome.
