Antony’s speech paints Brutus as a hypocrite, when, ironically, it is Antony who is the true deceiver. Throughout his speech, Antony
In Brutus’ speech he says “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.” He lists all the good qualities about Caesar then contradicts them with the one bad quality that overrides them. The audience begins to think that maybe Caesar wasn’t so good after all. Throughout Antony’s speech he gives reasons why Caesar could not have been ambitious but not soon after he says “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man.” As a result of this, the crowd begins to doubt Caesar’s ambition and Brutus’
Cassius speaks to Brutus in order to upend his loyalty to Caesar and convince Brutus to support Cassius and his group. Caesar was steadily accumulating power, which caused fears that Caesar would become a dictator and threaten the republic of Rome. Therefore, Cassius feels an urgency to protect his home and those close to him. As a prominent member of the Roman Republic, Brutus influences other senators and the citizens of Rome. Cassius pleads with Brutus to recognize the dangers of Caesar in order to prevent an ordinary citizen from controlling all of Rome.
Imagine being the right hand man of the most powerful man in a vast empire with many loyal citizens. This was Marc Antony’s reality-- until Caesar was killed. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the title character was brutally murdered by some of his closest friends. This event left Marc Antony, the closest person to Caesar, to find a way to get revenge on the conspiratorizing companions of Caesar. He could not kill all of the conspirators alone, for he was outnumbered, so he convinced a mourning crowd of Rome’s citizens to become a mob and avenge Caesar’s death.
The Persuasion of Rome Julius Caesar has been assassinated. Two speeches follow his murder: One by his “best friend”, Brutus; The other by his best friend, Antony. Since Caesar had potential to be the king of Rome, potentially a corrupt one, a group of Roman senators banded together to assassinate him. Their fears of Caesar destroying Rome's democracy and envy of his power led to his assassination, even though there was no true evidence that permitted his assassination. Although Brutus and Antony both use pathos, rhetorical questions, and logos, Antony used these tactics in a more persuasive manner.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure he is an honorable man.” (Shakespeare
Persuasion is a big part of the speeches and there is a lot of jelousy and greed. Greed leads people to jelousy and that is never a good thing to happen. Jelousy can lead people to do things they usually wouldn’t do. Persuasion is used a lot to convince people to believe in what they are saying. Although Brutus used a lot of good reasonings involving pathos, Antony delivers the more effective speech because he knew Caesar more and he was much closer to him
In the play Julius Caesar. there are funeral speeches from Antony and Brutus after the death of Caesar. It is easy to tell which speech constructed a better argument. Also, Brutus’ speech is very short when it is compared to Antony’s speech, but Antony did have much more to say about his dead friend than Brutus did. Antony’s speech uses rhetorical devices, such as ethos, pathos, and logos made his speech stronger and more effective than Brutus’ speech.
Who’s Speech Had More Support? The “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakesphere is a history and tragedy play used to give information on Julius Caesar’s death while adding everyday conflict. In the story Julius Caesar, the main characters start a plot against Caesar that will lead to his death. During the funeral two people gave speeches, such as Mark Antony and Brutus. Mark Antony and Brutus’s speeches were different from each other in two ways.
His statement that Brutus says Caesar was ambitious, though
“But Brutus said he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man,” (Act 3, Scene 2, Page 133-135) said Antony during his funeral speech to Caesar. Antony said
Shakespeare creates a the great story of Julius Caesar to convey a theme and illustrates it using literary devices. A literary device is a technique writers use to construct a special effect in their writing whether it is presenting a theme or producing clarity to text. Julius Caesar is known for its theme or moral and shakespeare does a great job of clarifying it. Shakespeare uses Pathos, Ethos, and Logos to present the theme in the story of Julius Caesar which is ambition and conflict. Shakespeare uses Pathos to show sympathy about past events and misunderstanding of Caesar before his assassination.
He made the crowd feel sympathy for him and Caesar. Antony was so persistent about how he worded his speech that he made the people of Rome think they were making their own decision, when really he was influencing them to go against the conspirators. Antony showed the crowd Caesar's body and the stab wounds. Antony says, “Look you here, Here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors” (III,ii, 191-192). By saying that, it made the crowd connect emotionally to it and feel anger.
“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.” -Yehuda Berg. Words are an important part to everyday life.
In Act 3 Brutus and Antony reveal how the opinions of the masses can be changed with emotive language. Language used to change the minds of people reveals how man can cause tremendous events through the use of
