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How Was Antony More Persuasive Than Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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How was Antony more persuasive than Brutus in his speech? Antony had many key things in how he was more persuasive than Brutus. For example, Antony was very emotional and passionate in his speech. Antony used his words very strategically and went off of the crowd's reactions. Antony spoke very positively about Caesar and tried to persuade the crowd into a rebellion. Brutus talked badly about Caesar and the key thing he said was that he is too ambitious. Antony talked positively about Caesar and Brutus did not. Antony talked about what Caesar left for the people of Rome and talked about how he was such a great man and leader to the people of Rome. Antony brought up that Caesar left 75 drachmas for each person in Rome. Antony persuaded them …show more content…

Antony was trying to persuade and manipulate the crowd into thinking that Brutus is a very bad guy now and that an honorable man would not kill Caesar. Antony is trying to get the people of Rome to rebel against Brutus and the Conspirators. Antony shook the conspirators hands and said he wanted no harm to make Brutus and the conspirators to think that he only wants peace, but now is getting back at them in trying to get the Romans to rebel because in reality Antony is very angry for the murdering of Caesar. All Brutus was trying to do was get the people of Rome to not hate him and get them on his side but Brutus was not very good in persuading them because all he did was talk bad about Caesar and that is not what the people of Rome want to hear. Also, Brutus was not very passionate and seemed like he didn't care about the speech that …show more content…

Brutus wanted to speak and get out of there. He wanted a short and brief speech to try to get the people of Rome on his side and not mad at him. Antony on the other hand was very passionate about getting his point across. Antony even showed every stab wound and said each conspirator's name at where they stabbed Caesar to fire up the crowd. Antony made it clear that he was not happy and wanted to almost kill the conspirators for what they did. Antony got the crowd fired up and got them to go try and burn all of their houses down. The people of Rome even killed Cinna the poet at the end of Act III because they thought he was Cinna the conspirator because they both had the same name. Some might say that if Brutus would have gone second that would have changed the peoples minds. That is not true though because Antony was so persuasive and good with his words that the people would still feel the same about the conspirators. Brutus was not good with his speech and wouldn't have been able to convince the people of Rome that the murdering of Caesar was for a good

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When talking about the differences between the two speeches the main difference is how each person uses logos, ethos, and pathos. When Brutus says his speech the main ones he uses are logos, and ethos. The example for Brutus is in his opening line of his speech when he says “Romans, Countrymen, and lovers” (elements 831). What this states is that Brutus wants to speak to them logically as he thinks they are intelligent people and will understand what he says for his reason (Schoolworkhelper). Whereas Antony uses pathos and connects with the people emotionally by saying “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” (elements 834).

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In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony both used different techniques in order to capture the audience's attention and approval in their speeches about Caesar's death. They both include repetition, rhetorical strategies, dramatic pauses, and parallelism in order to get the crowd on their sides. Both men use different strategies by knowing the audience and they use this to their advantage. Brutus and Antony both choose the use of Pathos and Ethos specifically appeal to the audience and their love for their country.

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The motivation behind Antony’s actions was completely selfish as he wanted to defend and avenge Caesar, gain power by giving himself credibility as Caesar’s right hand man, and unleash utter chaos in Rome by invoking civil war. Antony’s speech was able to completely reverse the effects that Brutus’ speech had simply because people care more about what agitates their emotions, rather than what logically makes more sense to

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Honestly I think antony did a better job at persuading than brutus did because he used examples from julius’s life and all he did.

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Brutus wants to make the crowd feel like he is in a way the victim. In order to do that he says "As Caesar loved me I weep for him" so in a way the people feel bad for him. This emotional appeal did not persuade the audience considering the fact that he was if he truly did love Caesar as much as he said he would, then he would have tried to find a different route in getting rid of Caesar as emperor. Antony goes with the approach of making the people of Rome feel guilty. He tells the citizens "You all love him once not without cause what cause withholds you then to mourn for him" so they could reflect on their attitude towards his death.

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Brutus’ main argument was that Caesar was ambitious, and Antony purposely disproved his main argument so that the crowd would have no choice but to support

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In Brutus’s speech he used ethos and logos to try and control the people of Rome. He was stoic and blinded of what Antony was capable of. He wanted to change their minds about the conspiracy and the murder of Caesar. Brutus says “Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men” (III, i, 23-24).

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Why was Antony’s speech more persuasive than Brutus's? In act three both Antony and Brutus gave a speech to the people of Rome. Brutus’s speech was meant to justify the conspiracy’s actions. Antony’s speech however, was meant to persuade the people that the conspiracy was wrong to kill Caesar. In the story of Julius Caesar, Caesar was inevitably murdered by the conspiracy.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s first piece of legendary writing based on the epic quest of the “greatest king on earth and the strongest super-human that ever existed”, Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was taught to have been born two-thirds god and one-third mortal and even though he was a strong and powerful king, he oppressed and treated his people harshly. Due to Gilgamesh’s actions, his people would pray to the god Anu, “creates a wild man”, who is Enkidu, who later on becomes Gilgamesh’s rival and devoted friend later on in his journey after having a fight of strength once he saw Gilgamesh trying to sleep with a newly wed women. Enkidu was brought out of his wildness after accepting one of the temple harlots, Shamhat who offered herself sexually to him so he would put an end to the trouble he has caused in which he submits to her. In doing so Enkidu instantly loses “his strength and wildness, but he gains understanding and knowledge” which plays an important key element during the Sumerian dynasty.

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Brutus delivers his speech in a laudatory manner by conveying Caesar’s deeds and claiming he was ambitious, although Antony contradicts Brutus’ claims and says Caesar spurned the crown with the intent to merely rule as a de facto dictator. Brutus’ speech reveals his motives were truly for the benefit of Rome given his nationalistic tone and Antony’s speech was merely used to obscure his true motives, which was to embroil Rome in a series of civil wars to attain power. Brutus and Antony’s speeches consisted predominantly of Pathos and Ethos, but it is Antony who ultimately it is Antony who prevails because of his almost disingenuous attitude and even use of Logos which is seen when claims that reading Caesar’s will would dishonor his compeers and even Caesar

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Antony wanted people to be patient with him. He also says, “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff” (3.2. 100-101). Antony says this to show that Caesar was a good man who cared about the people. It was also to show that Brutus was wrong when he stated that Caesar was ambitious. Antony makes the citizens feel that the conspirators murder was

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Towards the middle to the end you can finally tell he is being sarcastic, also supported by the other points he is making about Brutus. The other point Antony making is he is also trying to convince the citizens to rebel against the government.

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There are two reasons why Antony gave this speech. The first was to get back at Brutus for murdering his beloved friend, and making him pay for it. The main reason Antony gave this speech is because he had a greed for power. He thought that if he could get all the plebeians on his side, that they would attack the conspirators and trust Antony, therefore making it easy to take on the spot for power. “Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards, For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.

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