What Brutus has done is despicable and Antony really shows what Brutus has done with his speech. In The Tragedy of Julius Ceasar, Brutus, with his posse of co-conspirators, goes and kills Caesar because they believe he will do bad things to Rome. Brutus then explains their ideas to the roman people, but Antony (Julius Ceasar’s right-hand man) points out flaws and explains why Brutus was wrong. Antony, using Pathos, Logos, Similes, repetition, and rhetorical questions, makes a solid argument that Caesar shouldn’t have been killed because he was generous and loved the people, but Antony acted like he was not riling up the people with his wording, and Antony really captures the people with his uses of soliloquies. Julius Caesar loved the people and was very kind and generous. An example of him loving the people is when Antony said “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept” (III ii 100). This quote shows that Caesar knows how the people feel and has compassion for his fellow Romans. Anthony, near the end of his speech, reads Julius Ceasar’s will to the crowd (after descending from the pulpit) and it …show more content…
One example of this is when Antony says “O masters, if I were disposed to stir your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong” (III ii 133-35). Antony’s like “ohhh noooo, don't be mad, then I would be betraying Brutus and Cassius”. Another example of this is after Antony reads Caesar’s will. “Good friends, sweet friends! Let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.” (III ii 222-3) Where he’s trying to seem like he's trying to calm down the crowd, but he’s not doing much. In the modern day, we would call it “Quiet Quitting”, where someone would do the bare minimum in their job. Antony is doing this exact same thing, not putting much effort into calming the crowd, but he is technically