How Does Antony Use Ethos In Julius Caesar

Power comes with great responsibility and some people take advantage of that. When Antony found out about Caesar’s assassination, he ask to talk at his furnal and Antony makes a speech for the citizen to hear, so they could feel bad and feel like they should do something about it. In William Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar,” Antony uses rhetoric to get the Roman citizens to take revenge on the conspirators.
In the beginning of Antony’s speech, he uses pathos and ethos to show repeated reminders that Brutus is ‘honorable’, he slowly imparts doubt that Brutus’ words can be trusted. First Antony is addressing the Roman citizens and explaining his feeling about the conspirators and Caesar, then Antony talks about how “Brutus is an honourable man;

Pathos is being use when Antony says “honorable man” and is respected to emphasized the sarcasm and Antony uses words like “my friend …” to evoke pity from the crowd. Second Antony continues to speak about Brutus but now he provides more evidence to disproves the conspirators’ claim that Caesar was ambitious. Antony told people that “[his] heart is the coffin there with Caesar. And I must pause till it cause back to me” (IV.ii.2). Pathos is being use as well as a Metaphor comparing Antony’s heart to his emotion, “his heart in the coffin” emphasized anger/love from the crowd. Finally Antony tells the crowd that Caesar has a will, so the people would now want to hear it. He wanted to “do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong, who, [they] all know, are honourable men: [Anthony] will not do them wrong; I rather choose to wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you. Than I will wrong such honourable men” (IV.ii.3). Pathos and Ethos are being use and the Pathos shows verbal irony because although he says he doesn’t want to do the conspirators wrong, he sneak it in his sentence. Ethos talks about Antony and how he tells

Antony repeats that “Brutus is an honorable man” (IV.ii.5) so many times that it alters the literal meaning. The irony is in this phrase because after a while of reading it again and again, it is almost like Antony is saying “Brutus is an honorable man, isn’t he?” (IV.ii.5) The tone of this phrase is mocking and insulting when repeated, even though the actual meaning is not. This sarcasm gives credit to Antony’s argument by making fun of Brutus’ honor, which weakens Brutus’ argument. The use of Caesar’s mantle causes the plebeians to feel even more sorry that Caesar is gone, which naturally results in the resentment of Caesar’s murderers. Antony “remember[s] the first time Caesar put [the mantle] on” (IV.ii.6). This personal story is told and then he goes on to talk about when the “well-beloved Brutus stabbed” (IV.ii.6) Caesar. The fact that the story was even told is bound to cause a few tears to be shed because the audience would remember Caesar when he was alive. Keeping that thought in mind and then hearing about who killed Caesar would snatch the remembrance out of their minds and replace it with hate for the conspirators. If they were truly missing Caesar and were honestly sorry about his death, then this would cause rage and anger toward Caesar’s murderers. Another well used technique was specific evidence, which is very effective because it shows that Caesar was