“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” Antony tells the people of Rome during his passionate funeral speech. After Brutus and his conspirators assassinate Caesar, Brutus gives a speech saying his actions were just. Antony is not a proponent of Brutus’s actions and therefore tells the people why what Brutus did was immoral. Both men give meaningful and long speeches, and although Brutus is sincere in his defense, Antony uses more emotional, logical, and ethical appeal to the people, making his speech stronger. Although Brutus uses logos in his argument, he weakens its meaning but creating it a fallacy. The fallacy he uses is false dichotomy, asking the crowd if the “Had rather Caesar was living and die all as slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?” This creates a problem for the reader because it states that there are only two options: Either Brutus kills Caesar and the people are free or Caesar remains in power and the people’s freedom is gone. This, of course, is not true, for there are always several options to a situation. …show more content…
Brutus pairs the words describing Caesar’s accomplishments with those describing his own reactions. For example, he says that “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him,” “…was valiant, I honor him,” and “…was ambitious, I slew him,” which provides examples of his usage of pathos, ethos, and logos, respectively. Brutus continuously tells the crowd that he loves Caesar, but loves Rome more, and this is his main argument supporting the assassination. He also wants to enforce his belief that he and the conspirators killed him because they believed his ambition would lead to danger. Because he mainly relied on the use of logic throughout his speech, Brutus’s appeal to the public is not very
In Brutus’s speech that he gave for the reason for Julius Caesar’s death, he gives examples of logos to persuade the crowd. Brutus says that the reason for Caesar’s death was because of his ambition to become the emperor. But in Antony’s speech, he claims to have presented the crown to him 3 times, and Caesar refused all 3 times. Brutus claims his reason for aiding in the murder of Caesar was, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” but Anthony also stated “For Brutus as you know was Caesar’s angel.”
He believed their rights would have been limited and Caesar would have too much control. Brutus announces to the Romans “you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen? As Caesar loved me, weep him; as he was fortunate”. Brutus is a con and is trying to cover up the mistakes he made by using logos,but the Romans only know what Brutus tells them. Brutus uses convincing statements to make the Romans feel like he killed Caesar for them and not himself, which made the Romans start to agree with him.
Brutus and Booth-Noble Purgers Throughout history, people have sacrificed their lives, reputations, and honor to do what they believe is just, regardless of what others think. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin that killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 has been viewed as a traitor throughout American history; however, in Booth’s eyes, he was saving a nation from the injustices of an unfit leader. Similarly, the fictional character Brutus in the Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar murdered his close friend, the Roman emperor Caesar, to uphold the Roman Republic. Brutus and Booth may be murderers, but they show their honorable intentions and selfless character traits through their effective use of logos and ethos.
Paige Dispalatro Ms. Lammers English Honors II Period 2 19 January 2015 Actions For many centuries, people have often done what they thought was right. Whether it was for themselves or for others, they always had a reason for their actions. In the play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus believes that killing Caesar was best for Rome. But, during his speech, he needs to explain the reasons of his action to the people.
So it is all on the line for Antony and Brutus. Brutus did a great job of using logos and lots of ethos in his speech, but most of his reasons to justify Caesar’s slaying were predictions of Caesar’s future behavior. Antony uses a lot of statements that are primarily pathos to persuade the crowd that the great Julius should still be alive. This is most of the reason why Antony’s address is the better of the two. Here are some of the fallacies that Brutus uses.
Following Caesar's death, a funeral is held at which both Brutus and Mark Antony speak. Each attempts to sway the crowd towards their own cause, and both are successful to some degree. However, Antony’s use of rhetorical strategies, figurative language, and tonal shifts allows him to incite enough outrage at the conspirators that Cassius and Brutus are forced to flee the city. The largest component in Antony’s ability to turn the people of Rome against the conspirators is his use of ethos, logos, and pathos.
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.
At the funeral, both of Caesar’s friends, Brutus and Antony, made a speech. In Brutus’s speech he was very concise and was saying that he did it all for Rome. Brutus used logos and ethos in his speech. To fortify his speech, he used logos which is logic and reason. In his speech, he says listen to my reasons and he goes onto his reasons that Caesar would have become ambitious and enslaved them all.
This appeals to the Plebeians emotion making them feel as if Brutus’ recognition of Caesar justifies his death. Last, Brutus uses logos to make the Plebeians question if they would “rather Caesar/ were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were/ dead, to live all freemen? (III.ii.22-24). This makes the Plebeians believe Brutus’ compassion towards the people made him kill Caesar. It justifies that Brutus only killed Caesar for the greater good of Rome.
Many fallacies are used by them including bandwagon appeal, red herrings and pity (ad misericordiam). Brutus uses an either/or fallacy when he says “Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” by telling the audience they only have two options with Caesar’s power. He also uses a different literary device in his speech, a glittering generality.
Brutus tries to impress the crowd by saying that Caesar was going to become a dictator. “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” (ii. III.L 22-24). Brutus gives this reason to make the people think this murderous act was honorable.
In the play "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare, two individuals named Brutus and Antony give a funeral oration to the people of Rome in concern of the justification of Caesars death. Both of them share an opposite view towards the death of Caesar, Antony thinks his death was unjustified, while Brutus believes in the opposite. Despite the fact that Brutus was able to deliver a better ethical appeal. Antony delivers a more persuasive rhetorical speech since he appeals to the crowd more with his emotional and logical appeal Ethical appeal was used by both individuals in their funeral orations, evidently Brutus was able to execute a better ethical appeal than Antony. Brutus wanted to make the people of Rome feel like the death of Caesar was necessary for the sake of Rome.
Brutus 's speech: Brutus speaks to the people of rome why he killed caesar so they will not turn on him. He talked about how he didnt kill him because he didn 't love him but because it was for the better of rome. He also tells the people of rome that letting caesar become king would mean the government type would change and all the wars and hard work his family had put into the government would go away. He also states, for the welfare of rome that he would die for rome if rome demands his death Rhetorical devices: Brutus used questions, logos, parallelism, and pathos to stir the people of rhome. Question-
His speech is designed to persuade the Plebeians that the murder of Caesar was very necessary. In Brutus's speech he talks about how him and Caesar loved each other and that it wasn't that "I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more." Meaning that him and Caesar shared a love for each other but Rome meant more to him then Caesar did. By telling the crowd that he loved Caesar it makes them think that he wasn't necessarily happy about the murdering of him but that he was glad it happened cause it was better for Rome.
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