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Marc Antony’s speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar excels in persuasive rhetoric. He uses all three modes of persuasion- ethos, pathos, and logos. Shakespeare uses them to express different perspectives of human emotion. The use of these writing methods are important because, it appeals to the audience. Everyone likes to hear valid reasons why they should believe, buy, or boycott something. Ethos is effective in professional writing because it establishes the author’s credibility. In using ethos, writers highlight their expertise on the topic to draw themselves as respectable, knowledgeable, and credible. Pathos is a persuasive tool that uses emotional appeal to connect the writer with the intended audience. It’s usually the most influential tool because it links the audience to the author in the closest way possible- emotion. Lastly, logos is used to show examples, data, and facts. Logos is helpful because it provides readers with the statistics. Marc Antony’s speech is one of the most famous, persuasive, and influential pieces of literature from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. …show more content…

He tries to ally himself with the people labeling them as friends and fellow Romans. Starting out on a sincere note that will earn him respect from the crowd. Following this, Antony urges the crowd to join him in mourning Caesar, and eventually, he is overcome with distress. After regaining his composure he goes on to tell them that Caesar had been silenced, and he expresses dissatisfaction that the crowd wasn’t mourning with him. He puts the idea of rebellion in the minds of his listeners, but he urges them not to act on it. The last example of pathos is when Antony uses strong imagery of mourners collecting the dead Caesar’s blood and hair in order to evoke feelings of pity from the

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Shakespeare exposes the cutthroat politics of Rome through the speeches of Brutus and Antony in his play Julius Caesar. This play epitomizes the benefits of using rhetorical devices in a persuasive speech. Antony applies the modes ethos, logos, and pathos to establish credibility, provide evidence, and evoke emotion throughout his eulogy to Caesar. Preceding Antony’s speech was that of the senator, and friend of Caesar, Brutus. Conclusively, Antony’s use of rhetorical devices surpasses Brutus’s; Antony successfully persuades the crowd that Brutus’s speech posed as a clever ruse to justify his cold-blooded murder.

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In Antony´s speech at Julius Caesar’s funeral, had a hidden, alternate motive. Antony uses rhetoric all throughout his speech, the rhetoric being used are pathos, ethos, and logos. He uses pathos when he is addressing the crowd about how Caesar has compassion for all the people in Rome. Antony also uses logos and ethos to undermine the conspirators. Antony is the speech giver and his target audience are those who admired, and adored Caesar.

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The use of pathos in this quote is exhibited by the guilt that Antony tries to burden the people with. He says we loved him when he was alive, therefore why should we not love him when he is

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Pathos refers to a speaker evoking emotions to influence his or her audience. Antony effectively uses pathos when he eulogizes about Caesar. He evokes empathetic emotions in his discourse. In addition, Antony uses pathos when he expresses his own feelings. Antony proclaims, "Bear with me; / My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, /

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In “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, Marc Antony uses pathos and metaphors to convey his point of understanding crowd psychology. Although Antony respects both sides of Caesar and the conspirators, he gradually persuades the crowd to believe the positive actions Caesar had made during his time, “...common pleasures to walk abroad and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! Where comes such another?” (3.2.

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In the play Julius Caesar, Antony’s speech was more persuasive than Brutus’s speech. Antony persuaded the people of Rome not by what he said, but by how he said it. Pathos and logos were used as a means of persuasion throughout his speech. He also used lots of literary devices in his speech like irony, bandwagon, strawman, appeal to pity, and symbolism. The most common type of irony used was verbal.

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The plebeians will start to feel bad because Antony just lost his best friends so they have to listen to him. At the speech Antony is talking to the plebians saying Caesar was my best friend and when Caesars died “[Antonyms] heart is in the coffin there with Caesar”(Julius Caesar 3.2.116) Antonys soul died when his best friend Caesar died. Antony is telling the plebeians how he loved Caesar so much that when he died he also died inside too, making the plebeians feel bad so they will hear him out. Antony starts the guilt trip saying how much he loved Caesar.

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Since Caesar saw Antony as a friend Anonty was able to say things that had more meaning. One example of Antony using pathos is ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears’ ( Shakespeare 3.2 1-2) Another good example is ‘I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’ (Shakespeare 3.2 2-3). Antony adresses them as friends,Romans, and countrymen to gain their trust and appeal to them and he is also asking them to listen to what he has to say instead of just demanding them to listen to him.

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The ability to persuade and use rhetoric effectively is one of the most important themes in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Several characters, such as Cassius and Brutus, employ rhetorical strategies. Cassius uses persuasive language to convince Brutus to support his effort to assassinate Caesar. Brutus uses logos in his speech at Caesar's burial to demonstrate rhetoric. The plan thickens as the play progresses, and Brutus, as well as some of the conspirators, become enraged with Julius Caesar.

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The three modes of persuasion, according to the famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle, are Pathos, Ethos, and Logos. Pathos describes persuasion which appeals to one's emotions, Ethos utilizes the credibility and appeal of the speaker, and Logos is when the speaker appeals to the audience using logic. These forms of persuasion have been used throughout history, not just in plays by Shakespeare, but have been utilized religiously by really anyone trying to persuade another person. These forms of persuasion are practically “set in stone,” and are very prevalent in Shakespeare’s, “Julius Caesar”. Specifically in Act 3, Scene 2, where we see two different and effective speakers give funeral speeches, which utilizes all three of these methods effectively.

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Antony uses logos when he says… “ But here’s a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet, tis his will: let but the commons hear this testament-- which pardon me, I do not mean to read-” In this quote Antony is attempting to tease the citizens with Caesar's will. A second example of logos in Antony’s speech is “For Brutus as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all…” Antony is trying to make Brutus look bad and take away his credibility.

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Another example of Antony’s clever use of pathos would be when Antony says that, “ When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept” (III.iii. 88). Antony conveys to the audience that Caesar was a sensitive man who would try to help his people as much as he could. It also shows that since Caesar wanted to help the people it proves to the audience that Caesar was a benevolent man and how his assassination from Brutus and the conspirators was in the wrong. Antony’s use of pathos was effective and, could not be any

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Antony uses pathos he communicates to the people in a way that Brutus did not. Since, Antony is not allowed to say anything bad at the funeral he discretely criticizes Brutus and Cassius because he feels that what they did was wrong. For example, when Antony makes a comment that is contrary to what he means, he says “But Brutus is an honourable man”. Antony uses a lot of pathos because he wants the citizens to feel the way he is feeling. For example, he says he wants to read them the letter but he does not want to make them weep because of how much Caesar loved them.

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In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, the tragedy of Julius Caesar’s death occurs. Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus each gave a funeral speech. While both the speeches were well spoken, Mark Antony’s ended up being the better speech. Antony’s better use and variety of ethos, pathos, and logos, his use of figurative language, and the comparison between Antony’s and Brutus’s speeches proves that Antony’s speech is in the end better than Brutus’s speech. Antony’s speech uses ethos to show everyone around him that he is their friend, and he understands what they are going through; also Antony uses ethos to get the citizens to listen to him, because while Brutus says he is honorable, Antony says that he is with them and where they stand in

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Sydney Stone Mrs. Paul English 10A 16 October 2017 Rhetorical Analysis Essay William Shakespeare, a very famous writer, tells the story of Julius Caesar. In his play, Marc Antony delivers a powerful speech that uses many different rhetorical devices, appeals, and different styles of writing. Some of these include repetition, rhetorical questions, pathos, logos, ethos, and diction. These help enhance Marc Antony’s speech by persuading the audience towards considering that Caesar was a good man.

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