Julius Caesar was made by William Shakespeare. The play is about Julius Caesar being killed by Brutus. In the text, Brutus and Marc Antony both try to convince the Roman people to be their sides. Brutus better persuades his argument to the Roman people. Brutus uses more pathos more than anything throughout the argument. He uses a lot of repetition to further express the usage of pathos. For instance, he said, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more...As Caesar loved me, I weep for him… There is tears for his love…” Brutus uses it to try and stir up the feelings of his audience, the Roman people, so that they can be on his side on why he killed Caesar. It was very effective. It shows how effective it is at the end of his speech. The text says, “Live, Brutus! live, live!” …show more content…
“Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” and “Who is here so base that would be a bondman?” are both examples of the questions he used. He likes to use these specific questions to make the Roman people think. Asking them those questions will make them think about saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ during the situation. Also, it can be seen as logos. It makes them think and they give a logical answer, which is what makes the audience get on Brutus’s side. The last thing that Brutus used was antithesis. Antithesis is when a character makes a connection using opposite ideas, making a more contrasting effect. Brutus used this rhetorical technique by saying “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” He used the terms ‘less’ and ‘more’ as the opposing words. His intentions were to gain trust or ethos from the Roman people. He is trying to get the people of Rome to focus more on his love for Rome so they can respect what he claims he has done for
Introduction Sometimes it doesn’t matter how bad someone may be, they just have to be better than their competition. In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, the central conflict lies with Julius Caesar. People like Cassius viewed Julius as an up and coming tyrant so he wanted him dead. He convinced Brutus and few other to people help him kill Caesar.
Brutus uses a lot of Logos to mask or hide his feelings. Brutus uses facts often to support his claims and this sometimes makes him seem detached from his emotions. Another idea that was discussed was that sometimes people don't realize when they use pathos, logos, and ethos. The rhetoric devices come
While both Brutus and Antony delivered speeches to persuade the citizens of rome, Antony’s use of rhetorical techniques such as verbal irony, rhetorical questions, and logos made his speech more persuasive. First off, Marc Antony uses a lot of verbal irony in his speech to almost make fun of Brutus and the sentimental speech he gave. Antony gives off a very sarcastic tone throughout the beginning parts of his speech. He shows this by repeating the phrase, “Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man.” until the citizens realize he doesn't mean exactly what he says.
Marcus Brutus Junior, the protagonist of the play “Julius Caesar”, made one of the toughest decisions in the history of the Roman Empire: To, or not to, assassinate his longtime friend Julius Caesar, who would turn the Roman government into a dictatorship? Perhaps one of the turning points of this inner conflict came when Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus’ brother-in-law, gave a fiery speech to encourage Brutus to backstab Caesar. Cassius’ use of the three3 rhetorical strategies - logos, pathos, and ethos - would eventually persuade Brutus to participate in one of the most famous murder conspiracies in history. First, Cassius starts off by calming the fears and doubts in Brutus about his influence in Rome; Brutus’ fears of his lack of self-worthiness were soothed by Cassius using pathos. Notably in the passage, Cassius makes Brutus feel respected even by Caesar, the most influential man in Rome, with the words “Immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus...have wish’d that noble Brutus had his eyes (I, ii, 60)”.
Throughout Brutus’ speech, he uses both scesis onomaton and rhetorical questions to help resonate his actions to the Roman citizens. In the beginning of his speech, Brutus says, “Romans, countrymen, and lovers” to appeal to everyone (III, ii, 14). He wants all the citizens to be involved and although scesis onomaton is repetition of two or more words that have the same meaning and are repeated in the same sentence, he wants the citizens to believe that he is talking to different people. When in reality, countrymen and lovers are both referring to Romans, because throughout his speech, Brutus tries to explain that he loves Rome and that he killed Caesar for Rome because it was the right thing to do. He also asks them to, “Censure [him] in [their] wisdom . . .
Live, live!” No one wanted Brutus to kill himself. This is a confirmation that the people believed Brutus killed Caesar for honorable
In 1599, William Shakespeare wrote a play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar . The play was first performed on September 21, 1599. It consists of three main characters; Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus and Mark Antony. In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar , Brutus delivers a more persuasive funeral speech due to his extraordinary use of ethos, pathos and logos.
This quote matters because it shows what Brutus' intentions were and showed that he still cared for Brutus. It is important and matters because Brutus tries to justify his actions of what he did to Caesar by saying that he still loved him but Rome more. It shows that Brutus was trying to win over the people of Rome and make it seem like the murder had to be
Brutus uses Pathos most out of all of the three Rhetorical appeals. He tries to use the crowds and the reader’s emotions to win their heart. As Brutus talks to the crowded they are very angry,so Brutus starts off by trying to cool them down. ”Be patient till the
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.
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.
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-
(III, I, 90-91). This is Brutus trying to comfort the people and get them to listen to what they had to say about murdering him. The conspirators feared tyranny and they were willing to do anything to be free of it. But, they wouldn’t know how the people would react so they were giving them a reason to a
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