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Loaded Language In Mark Antony's Speech

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Deliverance of an Effective Speech Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus both give eloquent funeral speeches in honor of Julius Caesar. However, one of them is more effective than the other. Mark Antony is different than Caesar’s best friend Brutus. Antony had no hand in the killing of Caesar opposing to Brutus. In addition, Antony’s speech was the most effective because of his persuasion in his loaded language, his appeal of emotions he gives to the audience and the evidence he uses throughout his address. Loaded language is one of the strategies that Antony uses in order to have such an unforgettable speech. He utilizes loaded language by saying, “But yesterday the word of Caesar might have stood against the world; now likes he there. And none so poor d=to do him reverence.” Caesar not so long ago was praised and though upon greatly, but now he is dead and nobody seems to have grief towards him. With this explanation, Antony is making the people feel guilty by using deceit and helping them realize that Caesar, the man they once looked up to, is actually dead. …show more content…

Along with Brutus, Antony was a very good friend of Caesars. However, Antony seemed to know the facts while Brutus made accusations and his own theories. Antony shows his evidence by explaining, “I thrice represented him (Caesar) a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse; was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious.” Brutus killed his friend and went along with what he believed without knowing any facts about Caesar. Mark Antony’s justifications and testimonies are far more agreeable than Brutus’ because how much information he knows compared to

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The purpose of Mark Antony’s speech is to convince the public that the killing of Caesar was unjust. In order to achieve the purpose Antony uses rhetorical questions, allusions, repetition, and parallelism. Antony effectively uses the rhetorical devices by putting forward the main issues and manipulating words to be more basis for the main argument through the rhetorical devices. Antony uses rhetorical questions to make the public question what they once knew. Antony asks the public “Did this Caesar seem ambitious?”

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Mark Antony, as noble as a bald eagle in the eyes of Rome, was one of the most intelligent, trustworthy, and popular people of his time. After Caesar’s murder, Antony gains the trust of the conspirators to speak to the citizens at Caesar’s funeral. He uses his speech to indirectly turn the people of Rome against the conspirators. Antony was one of many to give a long speech within the story, but what stands out in his speeches is the ability to move a whole population’s tendencies and beliefs to side with himself using the power of rhetoric. Although Antony’s speech may be seen as him just feeding the people’s ears with words they want to hear, the well structured devices used enable the listeners to fill their own ears with their second guessing thoughts.

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By refusing to read the will several times and admitting that what it contains will cause the people to have such a great love for Caesar that knowing he is now dead will be unbearable, Antony ignites curiosity in the people and furthermore, a subconscious feeling of respect and graciousness toward Caesar. Basically, Antony uses Caesar’s will to convince the people that Caesar was a selfless, kind-hearted man and those who killed him should be ashamed and punished for killing an innocent man. Through Antony’s use of paralipsis, he is able to plant a seed of admiration for Caesar and one of hate for the conspirators in the hearts of the plebeians. In his speech to the citizens, Antony also asks many rhetorical questions to cause his audience to pause and reflect on how they really feel, or how Antony wants them to feel, about certain people and events that have recently become important. In one instance.

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Mark Antony is trying to win over the people of Rome by his very effective use of rhetoric. In his speech, his overall point is to persuade the Roman citizens that Brutus’s claim of Caesar being ambitious is not true. Antony’s use of rhetorical devices such as a rhetorical question give the people a good message. When he is telling them that Caesar brought many captives to Rome, he asks, “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious” (3.2.18). Antony’s rhetorical question was very effective since he is making the people question Brutus’s claim.

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Within lines 98 through 100 it states “You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him with a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambitious?” He was making Caesar seem like a honest person, while making himself seem to be a good friend and clearly a supporter of Caesar. And for all those people who had absolutely loved Caesar, that had made Antony look great to the people. On the lines 213 to 215 it states “They that have done this deed are honorable: What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it: they are wise and honorable,” He has lifted them up and slightly praised them to make them appear to be better than what he was making them out to be. Therefore, Antony was making himself appear to be a nicer and generally a good person.

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This is proven because in brutus speech he is able to turn all of Rome against Caeser. In section three of Brutus’s speech he says “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to liveall free men”. Although Brutus was able to change the way the Romans viewed Caeser, Antony was able to rechange the way the Romans viewed Caeser and the way they viewed Brutus making them turn on Brutus and go against him. That is another reason why Antony’s speech is better at persuading the audience then Brutus’s

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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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