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Julius Caesar Ethos Pathos Logos

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Marc Antony’s speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar excels in persuasive rhetoric. He uses all three modes of persuasion- ethos, pathos, and logos. Shakespeare uses them to express different perspectives of human emotion. The use of these writing methods are important because, it appeals to the audience. Everyone likes to hear valid reasons why they should believe, buy, or boycott something. Ethos is effective in professional writing because it establishes the author’s credibility. In using ethos, writers highlight their expertise on the topic to draw themselves as respectable, knowledgeable, and credible. Pathos is a persuasive tool that uses emotional appeal to connect the writer with the intended audience. It’s usually the most influential tool because it links the audience to the author in the closest way possible- emotion. Lastly, logos is used to show examples, data, and facts. Logos is helpful because it provides readers with the statistics. Marc Antony’s speech is one of the most famous, persuasive, and influential pieces of literature from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. …show more content…

He tries to ally himself with the people labeling them as friends and fellow Romans. Starting out on a sincere note that will earn him respect from the crowd. Following this, Antony urges the crowd to join him in mourning Caesar, and eventually, he is overcome with distress. After regaining his composure he goes on to tell them that Caesar had been silenced, and he expresses dissatisfaction that the crowd wasn’t mourning with him. He puts the idea of rebellion in the minds of his listeners, but he urges them not to act on it. The last example of pathos is when Antony uses strong imagery of mourners collecting the dead Caesar’s blood and hair in order to evoke feelings of pity from the

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