Brutus and Antony’s speech really shows how important rhetoric is to present a good argument. During Act III, scene II of Julius Caesar, Rome is mourning the loss of Caesar after he is stabbed by the conspirators. Antony, Caesar’s best friend, joins the conspirators to seem like he is on their side. Antony’s final goal is to get revenge on them and start a civil war to avenge Caesar. He makes an agreement that he will not accuse or blame the conspirators in his speech at Caesar’s funeral. Brutus starts off the speech by telling the audience his reasoning for Caesar’s murder, getting the crowd on his side. Knowing how to use devices properly gives Antony an advantage of winning over the audience. He uses all rhetorical appeals by repetition, deductive reasoning, and restating Brutus’ opposing viewpoints fairly and accurately. Antony provides a strong speech with many rhetorical devices to push the audience to agree with his argument. One of Antony’s best appeals was pathos. He uses pathos throughout the entire speech by repetition. Brutus argues that his reasoning for the stabbing was Caesar’s ambition. While Antony speaks, he is frequently …show more content…
Throughout his entire speech, Antony always restates Brutus’s opinions in a fair and accurate way. He keeps his promise with the conspirators that he would not accuse them for the act of murdering Caesar. Antony starts his speech with, “For Brutus’ sake I am beholding to you,” (1146) to make sure that the crowd accepts him. Then, he continues with, “I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke…” (1147) before continuing with his explanations. Although honoring the conspirators, he still adds small details to make them seem guilty, “I fear I wrong the honorable whose daggers have stabbed Caesar…” (1148) By showing the honor to Brutus, Antony is able to get away with accusing the conspirators without directly stating that he does not agree with their
Izabella Figueroa Mrs. Linda Comm Honors English 10 12 April 2023 Antony’s preeminent strategy A rhetorical device, according to www.vocabulary.com, is “a use of language that is intended to have an effect on it’s audience.” In Antony’s persuasive speech to the citizens of Rome, from “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” Antony utilizes the rhetorical devices of logos, pathos, and ethos to argue that Caesar wasn’t really ambitious, and there was no need for him to be murdered by the conspirators. Doing so forces the audience to consider his claim and change their previous viewpoints.
Knowledge of the audience and rebuttals were his main weapons. Because of Marc Antony’s masterful use of ethos, repetition, and awareness of the audience, his speech was superior, and rings out in history more than Brutus’ speech. Although pathos and logos are important, both Brutus and Marc Antony primarily
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a play by Shakespeare, depicts a story of Caesar who emerges victorious after a prolonged war against Pompey, a beloved Roman military commander, and is presented with the Roman crown; however, the Senators realize that their authority is at risk , so they plot to murder Caesar. Specifically in Act three, scene two, Mark Antony is speaking at Caesar's funeral, but secretly wants to get revenge against the conspirators who plotted Caesar’s murder by persuading his audience. To sway the commoners, he uses his words to modestly makes the conspirators the true criminals. Antony attempts to convince his audience that Brutus’s claims were false by using repetition, antithesis, and rhetorical questions. To start,
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.
In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony both used different techniques in order to capture the audience's attention and approval in their speeches about Caesar's death. They both include repetition, rhetorical strategies, dramatic pauses, and parallelism in order to get the crowd on their sides. Both men use different strategies by knowing the audience and they use this to their advantage. Brutus and Antony both choose the use of Pathos and Ethos specifically appeal to the audience and their love for their country.
In the play Julius Caesar. there are funeral speeches from Antony and Brutus after the death of Caesar. It is easy to tell which speech constructed a better argument. Also, Brutus’ speech is very short when it is compared to Antony’s speech, but Antony did have much more to say about his dead friend than Brutus did. Antony’s speech uses rhetorical devices, such as ethos, pathos, and logos made his speech stronger and more effective than Brutus’ speech.
At the same time, Antony uses rhetoric to persuade the Romans. While Antony is questioning the citizens why they do not love Caesar anymore, he uses pathos. He asks, “what cause withholds you then, to mourn
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar- Rhetorical Analysis In the novel, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, after Brutus brutally executes Caesar in Act 3 Scene 2, Antony is allowed to give a speech to the people of Rome whom have seen witnessed this fatal tragedy in Scene 3. Antony uses anaphora, connotative diction and details throughout his speech to persuade the Romans to change their perspective of Caesar and Brutus. The way Antony speaks about both Caesar & Brutus are a dispute of what he is actually trying to announce to the Romans. At the end of his speech, Antony hopes to reach the Romans emotionally (pathos) by enraging them against Brutus’s false statements against Caesar.
Antony’s Speech Using Rhetorical Appeals In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, after Caesar’s death, the Romans are conflicted about what should be done. After Brutus’ speech the Romans are ready to crown Brutus king and be on the conspirators’ side. Though Brutus then leaves the crowd while Antony delivers his speech, the crowd realizes what should be done of Caesar’s murder and Antony prevents the conspirators from getting away with the murder of Caesar.
When he ascends the pulpit to speak at Caesar’s funeral, Antony repeatedly says that Brutus is an “honorable man”, (Act III, Scene II) but continues to disprove his own claim with multiple pieces of evidence. By disproving his claim while seeming compassionate, Antony makes his audience believe that he is caring yet naive. This allows the audience to let their guard down and think that their later ideas are their own. Antony uses the crowds’ emotions to convince them that Brutus and the Conspirators aren’t honorable. Antony says that he won’t do the Conspirators wrong by stirring up a mutiny.
Rhetoric in the Speeches of Brutus and Antony The death of Caesar is a controversial topic and was even more controversial at the time of his funeral when when senators were trying to benefit from his death by getting the Roman citizens on their side. At Caesar’s funeral, two senators gave speeches as an attempt to get the roman people on their side. Out of the two speeches, Marc Antony’s speech was more effective because of his use of appeals and biases, being 100% true and had a larger variety of rhetorical devices.
In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar one of the main characters Caesar is killed in Scene 3 act 2.Then Brutus and Antony both give speeches about how bad they feel. Brutus gives a good speech by using all three of the rhetorical appeals to persuade the crowd to want to listen to what he say by using logos,ethos,pathos to his advantage. Brutus gives a better speech that draws the audience attention,Antony not as much. Therefor here are some very valid points on why Brutus’s speech used the Rhetorical Appeals better.
Brutus and Antony make speeches for Caesar’s Funeral and out of the two Antony is the stronger speaker. This is because he uses the rhetorical strategy Pathos and on example is the following quote, “He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill... When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept... Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man”(Act III, scene ii, line 1631-1632, 1634-1635, 1637-1638).
In the text Antony starts with complementing Brutus and easing into the speech. In the text he says, “For Brutus is an honourable man” (Shakespeare 3.2. 84). The author uses this to show that Antony isn’t trying to be vile but to eventually explain that Brutus wrongly killed Caesar. This shows that Antony is the bigger person and doesn’t need to entirely focus on defending himself to get the audience on his side. Brutus uses the legacy he has to get the audience to hear him out.
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