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Julius Caesar Rhetorical Devices

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Brutus begins his speech in Act III, scene ii, at Caesar's funeral, with an upset crowd questioning his motives for killing Caesar. The crowd’s initial reaction to Brutus is that he is honorable and venerated, but still needs to explain why Caesar was assassinated. Brutus tells the crowd that he did not kill Caesar because he didn’t care for him, but he killed Caesar because he loved Rome more. In addition, that if Caesar were still alive and king, all of the people would die slaves, and claims that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome. Brutus is able to persuade the crowd that he had honorable intentions for killing Caesar through the use of rhetoric-ethos, logos, and pathos. By using rhetoric and specific rhetorical devices, Brutus is able to convince the already easily influenced …show more content…

He is also using parallelism because he repeats the first line to reiterate his honor in a “mirror sentence.” Layer on, Brutus establishes his love and friendship to Caesar, and all the traits he loved about him, creating the illusion of friendship to the audience. Another example showing Brutus’s use of ethos is, “Honor for his valor, and death for his ambition” (Shakespeare III.ii 27). He uses “ambition” as a negatively loaded word to weaken Caesar’s ethos. Moreover, Brutus juxtaposes “Caesar” and “ambition” to justify Brutus’s image as good and Caesar’s image as bad. A last example is when Brutus expresses on lines 25 and 26 “As he was ambitious, I / slew him” (Shakespeare III.ii). “Slew” is a positively loaded rather than the words killed or assassinated. Brutus’s use of positive words allows him to influence the people and strengthen his ethos, and remind them that it was an honorable death and not just

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Brutus uses rhetorical questions, faulty reasoning and hyperboles to create the tone of persuasion while convincing the Roman people to be on his side. To start off his funeral speech, he wants the citizens to trust and believe what he has to say about Caesar, Brutus announces; “Believe me for mine honor, and have respect for my honor, that you may believe me”(Shakespeare 42). In this case, faulty reasoning is shown because Brutus has done nothing to prove him honorable to the citizens. Given that, he has no evidence that he is trustworthy, Brutus still try’s to persuade the crowd to believe what he has to say about Caesar is true, which is

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In part of Antony’s speech, he repeats “Brutus is an honorable man … Brutus is an honorable man” (2). Antony is repeating this phrase to emphasize his sarcasm towards how he feels about Brutus. He despises of Brutus and repeats this as a sarcastic joke because Brutus (in Antony’s eyes), is not an honorable man. However, Brutus uses repetition just to emphasize a point when the crowd says “none, Brutus, none” (5).

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In the play, Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, one of the main characters, Brutus, uses many examples of rhetorical devices in his funeral articulation. After Caesar’s once-known companions brutally murder him, Brutus delivers an oration at Caesar's funeral. In his speech, he overall describes how much he cared for and worshiped Caesar, and that the reason why he was one of the conspirators who killed Caesar was because he thought about Rome more than Caesar. Brutus appeals to the audience's logic (logos) when he states “Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may be the better judge.” (Shakespeare III.ii.17)

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Blake Brennan F 9CP2 English Ms. Bradley March 23, 2023 Julius Caesar Rhetorical Analysis Essay Having strong persuasive language will compel people to change their views about a topic. The play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, follows a group of conspirators and the aftermath of Julius Caesar's assassination. During Caesar's funeral, Brutus, a conspirator, makes a response that manipulates the plebeians' to rebel against Caesar. By saying this, Brutus persuades the plebeians to trust him and not Caesar. However, Caesar’s right-hand man, Mark Antony, does not like the conspirators nor Brutus, so he desires revenge.

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“Brutus is an honourable man…” (Act III, Scene 2). Antony really wants to emphasize that Brutus was honourable. He is doing this in a sarcastic way, because what honourable man would kill someone the romans loved if it was in their best interest to have him as ruler. “Another example is when he says that he should do the men who killed Caesar wrong” (Act III, Scene 2). Throughout this he is just trying to get the point across, and let the people know he is serious.

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Before he even begins giving his speech, we see that the people of Rome respect and admire this senator, and therefore respect him enough to hear what he has to say. This showcases how he uses Ethos throughout the speech, by using the respect and admiration he has earned from the people, in being noble and doing what's best for Rome, to not only explain his reasoning for the drastic action he and the conspirators took, but actually manage to get the citizens on board with him. He then uses Pathos to appeal to the citizens, by using the known relationship he had with Caesar, to show that his actions were not out of hatred, but rather out of his love for the good of Rome. This is best seen in lines 1555 and 1556, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” This line works to get the people of Rome to realize that Brutus truly loved his friend, Caesar, but then shows the people that he ultimately cares more for the people, and

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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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