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People are more swayed by emotion than they are by facts. Marcus Junius Brutus projects the facts in his speech. Brutus keeps his speech short and to the point, while Marcus Antonius elaborates and takes his time creating a more emotional-based approach. Brutus’ speech doesn’t necessarily win over the people but keeps them in touch with the what and why’s of these events. Antony’s speech alters their emotions and perspectives creating a sense of sympathy between Antony and the people of Rome. Antony offers the people a view filled with human morals and emotion which is endlessly more persuasive than a view consumed by Roman morals and duties. Marcus Junius Brutus was known for being an honorable senator. Often his love for Rome clouds his …show more content…

Throughout the play, Marc Antony devotes his life to Caesar, from obeying his orders to seeking revenge against the conspirators. At the beginning of the play, Marc Antony is displayed as passionate, gamesome, and quick-spirited. Antony is displayed as the opposite of Brutus. In Antony’s speech, he uses the opposite method of Brutus’ speech. Antony invokes his emotion, using Pathos to sway the audience against the conspirators. “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. (He weeps)” (III, ii, 116-117). This quote displays how Antony projects his personal feelings to the audience to gain their sympathy and understanding. By doing so Antony has distributed his feelings to the crowd making them vulnerable and easier to sway. To convey his opinions on a more personal level Antony uses repetition. “And Brutus is an honorable man.” (III, ii, 103-103). Antony repeats this statement throughout his speech in four various contexts. Antony sneaks his opinion into the speech but then returns to his position on Brutus’ side by spewing this fact. By doing so Antony removes himself from being an antagonist while still projecting his truths onto the audience. In the end, Antony hides his truths with repetition and

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(3.2.73).Then Antony continues to talk to the crowded about how he thought that caesar will be remembered for the bad he did and will be buried with the good that he did for people around the town. ”The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interrèd with their bones. So let it be with Caesar”.(3.2.74).He has yet to use one of the Rhetorical Appeals in his speech to use to get the crowded on his side backing him up. It is not till later on in the speech he uses Pathos to play with their Emotions “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept”.(3.2.90).Saying how he is sad to see that Caesar was killed,Stating that he misses him and that he will cry about this moment. He does not focus on how he cares he just states three or four lines that show he cares the rest of the time he is talking about what caesar had done.

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