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How Does Antony Use Ethos In Julius Caesar

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In the play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, one of Caesar’s friends, makes a speech at Caesar’s funeral. Brutus does not want Antony to make a speech, because he is a great orator, and also because he was afraid that Antony would expose the conspirators. In his speech, Antony uses of rhetoric’s Logos, Ethos and Pathos to persuade the crowd, and in the end he gets what he wants. Although Antony is already not very trusted by the conspirators, because of his friendship with Caesar, Brutus lets him speak at Caesar’s funeral, but only after he has made his own speech to show the reason of Caesar’s death. It is made clear by Brutus that Antony can say whatever he wants of Caesar, unless it involves the conspirators and their deeds. But Antony has advantages over Brutus, such as his chance to have the last word, so he makes the most out of his opportunity. …show more content…

By Act III, scene 1, when he meets the conspirators, it is easy to see that Antony is ironical and that he means different things in almost everything that he says. At the funeral Brutus is overmatched by Antony’s duplicity and oratory. Antony uses rhetoric and histrionics and incites the crowd into mob frenzy. His speech has the function to annul Brutus’ explanation of Caesar’s murder, hide his intentions of revenge against the conspirators, and also to leave their brutal actions out in the

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He shows this when he says “If I were to dispose, or stir your hearts and mind to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong…” He is pretending to care for the feelings of Brutus while making him seem worse to the audience while making Caesar seem as the righteous man Antony believed him to be. Antony’s speech about Julius Caesar was better than Brutus’ speech because he made the citizens believe it. Regardless of the things said, whether true or false he made the citizens believe in him which is important.

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