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Use Of Ethos In Julius Caesar

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Why Antony’s Eulogy Was Superior to Brutus’ Speech In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony’s speech is more effective than Brutus’s because Antony utilizes emotions in order to stir up the people and start a riot and speaks in a way that the people can understand, whereas Brutus talks above the people, using prose like the nobility used, and uses ethic and logic to reason with the people why killing Caesar was justified. Brutus’ use of ethos and logos makes the most sense to knowledgeable thinkers and well educated individuals, however to the uneducated people of Rome, using pathos as Antony did would prove more successful. Brutus failed to recognize the most important aspect of speech and presentation, the audience. When speaking the most important …show more content…

“Believe me for my honor and have respect for mine honor that you may believe (III, ii, 15-16).” Brutus states that he is honorable and to remember this in order to believe him. However this will prove to be a terrible thing to say as Antony uses parallelism and repetition of words by saying “For Brutus is an honorable man… (III, ii, 81)” repeatedly. Antony uses this to get the audience to believe that all Brutus said about his honor was wrong. Antony uses this against Brutus and using fallacious arguments he convinces the people that Brutus was not in fact honorable, but a murderer and a …show more content…

“Our Caesar’s vesture wounded? Look you here, Here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors (III, ii, 191-192).” Antony picks up Caesar’s body to show off the stab wounds and by putting names to scars it gives the people more hatred towards the conspirators who caused great damage to him. Antony also gets the people riled up and emotionally more involved by reading the will, but more than that, the taunting of the will got the people very mad especially when he said “I fear I wrong the honorable men Whose daggers have stabbed Caesar. I do fear it. (III, ii, 150-151).” This caused the people to be infuriated who responded with “They were traitors! “Honorable men (III, ii, 152).” The plebeians were angered by this statement because they truly don’t believe Brutus and the conspirators had any reason to kill Caesar. Overall Antony’s smart thinking allowed him to use his resources to the best of his ability and decimate Brutus and the conspirators'

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