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Ethos In Julius Caesar Rhetorical Analysis

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Persuasion Devices King Julius Caesar has been seized by the conspirators, and the citizens of Rome want an explanation for this tragedy. This is the situation in Shakespeare’s drama, “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar''. When someone has to speak up to answer the people of Rome, Mark Antony does, and when he does, he uses ethos, logos, and pathos to get the citizens to trust him. In Antony’s spellbinding speech to the citizens of Rome, he utilizes ethos, logos, and pathos to argue that Brutus is corrupt for murdering Caesar. Doing so forces Mark Antony’s audience to become an angry mob of rioters. Antony knows that he must get the people of Rome to trust him. He does an extraordinary job at this by using the persuasion device called ethos. Ethos uses authority and status to make an audience believe what someone is saying. Mark Antony makes use of this device when he says, “For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood; I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do …show more content…

Pathos uses emotions to lure an audience into an angry or sympathetic state so that they will feel the same emotion the speaker feels. Antony makes use of pathos by mourning, “Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me” (3.2.102-104). This is showing Antony’s emotion, which will then let the people of Rome sympathize with him, causing them to change their thoughts on the situation to Antony’s favor. “What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?” (3.2.100). Pathos is being shown here because Antony is causing the citizens to second guess themselves. By doing this, he is making his audience think extra hard into the situation and making the chances higher of the citizens agreeing with himself over Brutus. Using pathos in Antony’s speech helps him win over his audience and get revenge for

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