William Shakespeare was famous for his poetry but also his plays. One was deeply concerned with the idea of rhetoric and persuasion ,The play, Julius Caesar. It retells the story of Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath. The conflict starts with Cassius convincing Brutus that Caesar must die,setting the story in motion.The resolution of the plot is decided by Anthony and Brutus speeches at his funral.These two men's speeches reveal their characters.Brutus' speech seems cold, stiff, formal, schooled, and rehearsed.While Antony couldn't have rehearsed his own speech because the assassination took him completely by surprise. Brutus was a rational man who appealed with reason and logic. He believes in "honor" and "respect", that other men can be persuaded by reason. His major character trait is that he is a thinker. He expects other men to be thinkers too, because we all tend to judge others by ourselves. In his speech he explains his reasons for killing Caesar . Brutus goes on to say "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more," this just shows what a honable man he was .He believed killing Caesar was for the greater good, not for any self-serving reason. He sadly was mistaken because the empire fell apart either way . …show more content…
He does this easily, because he really does have strong feelings about the death of his friend Julius Caesar. One example of the emotionalism in Antony's speech was when he spoke of his heart, "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,and I must pause till it come back to me." Antony is not giving a formal speech. Here he actually breaks down and weeps.He has all the citizens that are rough, tough crying with