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 the play, the two speeches contrast on the choice of rhetorical appeals towards the crowd. Brutus's speech, as the reader can see, appeals to the logic of the crowd while Mark Antony appeals to the emotions or pathos of the crowd. Brutas goes first when delivering the speech, his speech is quick and to the point. While trying not to cause chaos in the crowd, Brutas talks highly of himself to make himself seem honorable to the crowd. Brutas says "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" (Shakespeare 3.2).
When delivering his speech, Brutus clearly and efficiently uses all three rhetorical appeals brilliantly. At the start of his speech, Brutus conveys the message that the Romans should hear him for the true reason as to why he assassinated Julius Caesar. Furthermore, Brutus, truly and nobly, uses his credibility to persuade the citizens that because of his honor, they should believe his cause (reminder to put citation). Known throughout his life for his nobility, Brutus initializes his speech with a powerful use of Ethos. Yet, Brutus also established his emotional attachment to Caesar.
They are also trying to keep their reputation as good character in front of the crowd. This will probably cause the people to think about who to believe the most since they both are trying to look good. Antony’s and Brutus’ goal is to make sure they do not look bad in front of the crowd but to make sure the other person does look bad. Just like they expressed themselves using ethos, now they use pathos to get compassion. For example, in Antony’s speech he says “Bear with me.
Brutus uses ethos to question the morality of Brutus by giving evidence of Caesar not being being ambitious and saying that Brutus calls Caesar ambitious and he is an honorable man. This makes the common people doubt Brutus morals and credibility. Antony uses logos to convince the common people that Caesar could not be ambitious and to get them to question Brutus’ integrity and credibility. He tells the people about Caesar's will and that everybody in Rome is in his will. He tells them that Caesar left each citizen of Rome 75 drachmas and left his private gardens for all the citizens to stroll in and relax.
Though Antony makes effective points using ethos, his main advantage over Brutus comes from how he utilizes pathos. Antony appeals to the emotion of the people when he exclaims, “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar / And I must pause till it come back to me. He weeps”
The fact Brutus uses his speech to convince himself his actions are just is quite apparent as his speech comes to a close, but Antony fuels the crowd with rage, wishing for chaos after Cæsar’s fall. Brutus responds with a simple, “Then none have I offended,”(Shakespeare III.ii.38-39) to the crowd after they tell him no one wants to be a slave, almost as if it was more for himself than for the crowd. Antony, however, spoke for a much longer time than Brutus, and plants the seeds of doubt in the crowd’s mind by telling them “Brutus is an honorable man,”(Shakespeare III.ii.89) more than six times, which makes them curious as to if that is really true. Brutus a single appeal to logos, which tells the crowd that “The question of [Cæsar’s] death
He then goes into explaining Caesar’s wrong-doings as a leader which gets the crowd to side with him leaving Antony at risk of a checkmate, if he does not make the appropriate move. During Antony’s speech, he says “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man” (III.ii.90-91). Basically, Antony is giving credit to Brutus for crediting Caesar as an ambitious leader. And since Antony spoke highly of Brutus in front of a crowd that was “pro-Brutus”, they want to listen to him now. Now that Antony has the crowd listening to him, he uses pathos as his next move.
Cambree Torma Mr. Ioannidis English 10B 27 January 2023 So Much for Brutus Being an Orator Antony was Caesar's loyal follower and dear friend. After Caesar was killed, he proclaimed a curse on the conspirators and a civil war in Rome. When he gave his speech at Caesar's funeral, he persuaded and manipulated the people into rebelling against the murderers. Antony's speech was far superior to Brutus' speech by one thing, emotion. He appealed to the audience's emotion using pathos.
In the play, Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare, Brutus and Antony utilize ethos, pathos, and logos in their speeches. They do so in various ways to get the Romans on their side. Every character has their own personality that allows them to react differently to certain things. Brutus refers to his honor to vindicate himself while Antony wants to avenge the murder of Caesar. Both orators appeal to their credibility and trustworthiness to get the mob on their side.
The two speech differed by the amount of people that were reached to the crowds. Neither Brutus or Mark Antony targeted their speeches toward a specific audience. In my opinion, Mark Antony had a much more
Brutus used logos and ethos in his speech, he was much more logical and intelligent in the way he spoke. To some this may seem like Brutus had a better speech and knew better than Antony. Although he was logical and intelligent, Antony was emotional and emotion connects with an audience, specifically this audience, more than logic. Antony was also very manipulative and knew he could get the Plebeians to go along with whatever he says if he spoke to them, Brutus on the other hand did not realize this an spoke above the people of Rome. Brutus is logical and smart while Antony knows how to manipulate people, thus Antony was able to win over the
Brutus and Mark Antony had very different purposes in their speeches. Brutus was attempting to convince the people that he had viable reasons for killing Caesar. He also wanted to show them that he was still honorable. Brutus also had to convince the people to let him live. He had to sway their opinions so that they would understand why he did what he did.
Brutus delivers his speech in a laudatory manner by conveying Caesar’s deeds and claiming he was ambitious, although Antony contradicts Brutus’ claims and says Caesar spurned the crown with the intent to merely rule as a de facto dictator. Brutus’ speech reveals his motives were truly for the benefit of Rome given his nationalistic tone and Antony’s speech was merely used to obscure his true motives, which was to embroil Rome in a series of civil wars to attain power. Brutus and Antony’s speeches consisted predominantly of Pathos and Ethos, but it is Antony who ultimately it is Antony who prevails because of his almost disingenuous attitude and even use of Logos which is seen when claims that reading Caesar’s will would dishonor his compeers and even Caesar
They both had strong speeches in their logos. Brutus told the people that Caesar was killed for a reason by stating “had you rather Caesar were living, and/ die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, above all/ freemen?” (3.2 24-26). Brutus was telling the people that since Caesar are dead, everyone can be free and no one should have to be slaves by force. Even though that Brutus won in ethos and pathos, Antony had a slightly stronger logos appeal.
