In the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, the character Cassius gives a speech to his brother Brutus about why he should kill and replace Caesar . During this speech he uses the three forms of rhetoric persuasion: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Ethos establishes moral credibility, Logos appeals to and shows logic, Pathos reaches out to one's emotions. An important one is Ethos. In Cassius’s speech to his brother he uses the method Ethos and establishes credibility and appeals to ethics or morals. One of the ways he does this is by saying that “[their] fathers say There was a Brutus once who would have brook’d The eternal devil” (Shakespeare 20-21). This shows that wiser people before them said that Brutus was strong and therefore, lends a hand towards Cassius’s argument that he should take action. Also by stating “I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor Did from the flames of troy upon his shoulder… Did I the tired Caesar” (Shakespeare 20-21). By comparing himself to his, “great ancestor” he provides credibility to himself as his ancestor had (Shakespeare 20-21). As important as moral competence is, it is nothing without the logic of Logos. …show more content…
One of the ways Cassius does this is by saying that Brutus can, “endure the winter's cold as well as [Caesar]” and that he has “fed as well” too (Shakespeare 20-21). This comparing Brutus to Caesar shows that they are equal and, therefore there is no reason that Caesar should be in power and not Brutus. He also does this when he states “Brutus and Caesar..Why should that name be sounded more than yours?... Write them together, yours is as fair a name” (Shakespeare 20-21). While Logos targets logic Pathos targets one's