How Does Brutus Use Ethos In Julius Caesar

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Despite Marc Antony’s and Brutus’s funeral speeches both being convincing to the plebians. Br.utus does better than Marc Antony by moving the pleabians opinion to support the killing of Julius Caesar. In Brutus’s speech he uses many rhetorical strategies to engage the public to sway to his motive. Brutus also appeals to the whole crowd, gives reasons to why he killed Caesar, and appeals to the emotions, reasoning, and presents himself as a higher status to the plebeians. In the Brutus speech, Brutus uses rhetorical strategies to sway the public in his favor. One of many of the rhetorical strategies is anaphora. Which is the use of repetition of introductory phrases. Brutus uses anaphora to give multiple points of why he loved Caesar, and his …show more content…

The first appeal that Brutus uses to sway the crowd to his side is Ethos. Ethos is the use of credibility which Brutus uses to say that he was Caesar's dearest friend and talks down any one by saying they are inferior to him if they disagree. On line 8-9 “any dear friend of Caesar’s to him I say, that Brutus’ love to Caesar was no less than his”. Another appeal Brutus uses is Logos to show why he killed Caesar. Logos is the appeal to reasoning and he justifies killing Caesar by giving only two options of either being a slave or free and saying that Caesar’s ambition would cause the citizens of Rome to be slaves. “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than Caesar were dead to live all free men? The last appeal Brutus uses is Pathos to give emotions to his words. Pathos is the appeal to emotion and Brutus uses it to show his feelings towards Rome are immense that he killed Caesar to stop his “ambitions” from controlling Rome. On line 36 Brutus says “With this I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome. Brutus uses the appeals of Ethos, Pathos, Logos to manipulate the thoughts and feelings of the plebeians to join Brutus’

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