The best way to show honor is being honorable to a cause. Brutus is more honorable than Antony because he is selfless for a good cause, is concerned for the future of Rome, and he is fearful for what Caesar might do to Rome. Antony is honorable because he is loyal to Caesar, he is cunning and he manipulated the conspirators. Antony is loyal to Caesar because even after Caesar was dead Antony continued to praise him. "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man/That ever lived in the tide of times" (3,i,256-257) This suggests that Antony really loved Caesar and he wishes that he were still alive. So even after Caesar died Antony was praising Caesar. Antony is also recognized as honorable because he was cunning in making people doubt whether or
This immediantly catches the ear’s of the audience as they hear about how much Mark Antony loved Ceasar. Antony repeats to the people that Brutus was an honorable man. He is being almost sarcastic when he says this though. Antony doesn’t actually think that Brutus is an honorable man. He is mocking Brutus.
Antony provides the Romans with an example of one of Caesar’s honorable moments, “He hath brought many captives home to Rome, / Whose ransom did the general coffers fill” (Shakespeare 3.2-90-91). Caesar took people captive so that he could make a profit to put back into Rome’s banks. With this, Antony is disproving Brutus’ previous claim about Caesar being ambitious by telling the Romans about the selfless acts that Caesar has done. Antony is also proving his own statement about Caesar being an honorable man, because of Caesar’s act of finding an extra source of income for his
Antony hopes he can persuade the crowd against Brutus. Then, he also states,” Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!” (Shakespeare 3.2-)In this quote, Antony is referring to how loved Brutus was by Caesar. Antony wants the crowd to ponder why if Caesar was so loved by Brutus, why would
Caesar is a Hero Why is Caesar's assationation still fascinating? Julius Caesar was a Rome dictator and part of the first triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus. He was a senator, consul and then governor in Gaul. He was a great leader with strong speaking skills and showed compassion to others. He strived to be a great leader but that was his downfall.
The Consequences of Honor Being an honorable person requires one to follow a code of ethics for the greater good, even at the cost of his own life. If one breaks his code of ethics, he believes that living with the shame of breaking it for the rest of his life would be a “fate worse than death”. These selfless individuals care more about the needs of others than their own personal desires. However, there are people who take advantage of one’s honorable nature and use it for their own gain. This concern of acting honorably is shown in Brutus, the main character in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
People who are proud aren’t honorable. Napoleon is one of the most proud characters in both stories. He is very proud of what he’s done and he even brags to the humans that he can do what they do. In Animal Farm George Orwell says, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Napoleon had betrayed the animals on the farm; Freeing them from Jones just to treat them similarly and own them like a human.
Within Antony’s speech to the Romans he uses anaphoric text to spike a whirl of rage towards Brutus. Repeatedly Antony states “Brutus is an honorable man” emphatically for the duration of his speech to contradict Brutus’s nobility ( March Antony, Lines 83,88,95 ). Before Antony begins his speech he is approached by the Romans with comments to not speak bad on Brutus’s name, which is why he utilized the anaphora to repeat that Brutus is an honorable man therefore allowing him to gain the Romans trust to speak. Antony does not say these lines truthfully but sarcastically to make the people of Rome feel furious against Brutus for taking Caesar to his mortal death.
Antony wants to remind the Romans that he is credible for speaking of Caesar “that love my friend, and that they know full well, that gave me public leave to speak of him” (III.ii.215-216) Antony uses ethos after telling the Romans everything to convince them in being against that conspirators’ that he can speak of Caesar because he was a close friend of Caesar. Antony convinces the Romans to retribute the conspirators’ for what they have done “In every wound of Caesar that should move the stones of Rome to rise and mutiny” (III.ii.225-226) Antony wants revenge and is convincing the Romans to riot by using pathos. Antony wants the Romans to feel sorry about Caesar’s death “here was a Caesar! When comes such another?”
The least honorable character of Julius Caesar is Brutus. The main reason Brutus is dishonorable is because he betrayed his friend Caesar. Brutus shouldn’t have made Caesar think they were friends because in the end they weren’t true friends. If Brutus wanted to be seen as an honorable friend he should have sat down and talked to him about what he was doing. Instead of doing this, Brutus killed Caesar and helped the conspirators.
In Antony’s speech to the people, he speaks about Caesar over his dead body. His words make the commoners feel something, as opposed to Brutus,
While Brutus spoke well, but had no real factual standpoint, Antony gave many examples of Caesar’s achievements. In his speech he uses Pathos, Logos, Ethos, and Situational Irony to sway his audience. He uses Brutus’ and Cassius’ precious honor and Caesar’s achievements against them, saying, “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept./ Ambition should be made of sterner stuff./ Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,/ And Brutus is an honorable man” (3.2.90-93). In this statement and many other statements following the same pattern Antony degrades the honor and the arguments of Caesar’s ambition that were made by Brutus and the other conspirators.
The play, Julius Caesar, makes of honor as accepting self-responsibility and wrongdoing towards Brutus, Portia, and Antony’s actions, intentions, and values. Marcus Brutus was a close colleague of Julius Caesar, who had recently risen in power after killing Pompey. In Act 1, Scene 2, Brutus is
Antony says all these things about Caesar that
And I must pause till it come back to me" (III.ii.107-109). Antony reveals his sentiments about Caesar’s death. By proclaiming his own feelings, Antony is trying to evoke compassion from the crowd. Antony establishes his love for Caesar, which tells his reason for defending Caesar. Since the crowd respects and trusts Antony, the audience members will also express feelings of sadness for Antony because of empathy.
Honor in the world gives people a reason to fight for the things that they believe in. Throughout The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus has had to make many tough decisions that display the great honor within him. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare's, it is made very obvious that Brutus is an honorable man. Brutus preserves his honor by taking care of Rome’s issues with good intentions and without going too far.