Shakespeare exposes the cutthroat politics of Rome through the speeches of Brutus and Antony in his play Julius Caesar. This play epitomizes the benefits of using rhetorical devices in a persuasive speech. Antony applies the modes ethos, logos, and pathos to establish credibility, provide evidence, and evoke emotion throughout his eulogy to Caesar. Preceding Antony’s speech was that of the senator, and friend of Caesar, Brutus. Conclusively, Antony’s use of rhetorical devices surpasses Brutus’s; Antony successfully persuades the crowd that Brutus’s speech posed as a clever ruse to justify his cold-blooded murder.
At the same time, Antony uses rhetoric to persuade the Romans. While Antony is questioning the citizens why they do not love Caesar anymore, he uses pathos. He asks, “what cause withholds you then, to mourn
Antony’s Speech Using Rhetorical Appeals In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, after Caesar’s death, the Romans are conflicted about what should be done. After Brutus’ speech the Romans are ready to crown Brutus king and be on the conspirators’ side. Though Brutus then leaves the crowd while Antony delivers his speech, the crowd realizes what should be done of Caesar’s murder and Antony prevents the conspirators from getting away with the murder of Caesar.
During the seminar, many different view points and perspectives were expressed. One of the ideas that were discussed was that Antony and Brutus used different rhetoric devices to express their feelings. Antony used many examples of pathos in both his funeral speech and his everyday life. He aims to establish emotional reactions from his intended audiences and sometimes over uses this device. Brutus on the other hand does the exact opposite.
Logos and pathos are both rhetorical devices that are used in writing, logos are used when stating facts, on the other hand pathos is used for using sympathy or trying to get the reader's emotion. In Antony’s persuasive speech to the Roman people, Antony uses sarcasm and empathy in his speech to address Brutus and convince the Roman people so that he can get justice for Caesar. While both Antony and Brutus’s speeches appeal to the sympathy of the roman people, Antony’s uses logos to assert that Brutus was guilty of killing Caesar in his speech. When Antony finds out that Cesar is killed, he is filled with emotion and flabbergasted that Brutus would do something like this. Antony was the only loyal friend Cesar had and looked up to him.
Brutus and Antony are the most predominant characters in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. In act three Antony and Brutus give a very important speech to the people of rome in which the plebeians get to see their personality. In their speech they both engage one of the three Classical appeals: logos, an appeal to logic; ethos, an appeal to character; pathos which is an appeal to emotion. Although both speeches are similar in structure Antony’s speech is more effective because he wins over the plebeians, gets them to turn on noble Brutus and builds an army. Antony doesn’t have it great to begin.
Pathos control the emotions of an audience and evoke a certain feeling to persuade the crowd in this case. Finally, logos convince an audience using reasoning and logic. Antony expresses a variety of persuasive techniques throughout his entire speech and change the mindset of the commoners using ethos, pathos, and logos. In Marc Antony’s speech, he used to persuasive technique known as ethos.
Pathos uses emotions to lure an audience into an angry or sympathetic state so that they will feel the same emotion the speaker feels. Antony makes use of pathos by mourning, “Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me” (3.2.102-104). This is showing Antony’s emotion, which will then let the people of Rome sympathize with him, causing them to change their thoughts on the situation to Antony’s favor. “What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?” (3.2.100).
In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Mark Antony give speeches after Caesar's death. Both Brutus and Mark Antony give persuasive speeches. However, they each used rhetorical devices in different ways in order to persuade the people of Rome. Both speeches use Ethos to appeal to credibility, Pathos to appeal to emotion, and Logos to appeal to the content and arrangement of the argument.
In the play Julius Caesar by William shakespeare, Caesar is murdered by the senators of rome, to prevent his power hungry ego from destroying their beloved city. During Caesar's funeral, both Marc Antony and brutus give speeches. Both speeches contain athos, which appeals to emotions, and rhetorical questions, these emphasize both of the speeches in different ways. Although Brutus is a convincing orator, Antony's uses a more effective form of rhetorical questions and pathos, which evokes feelings in the audience.. Pathos is a technique used in writing in order to appeal to the reader's emotions.
He uses pathos in more of a way to create fear and hostility among the people of Rome. He makes arguments against Brutus and his reasoning. Antony uses proof to show that what Brutus was saying was incorrect about Caesar being ambitious. In order to instill this fear within the crowd he starts off by saying, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. "
The most common type of pathos that Antony used was in the form of sarcasm, which can be seen when he said, “The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault; and grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, (for Brutus is an honourable man; so they are all, all honourable men)” (III.ii.79-85). Antony’s emotional approach was completely effective on the crowd, and he was able to turn the people into a mob and start civil war by using reverse psychology. Antony uses reverse psychology by teasing the crowd with Caesar’s will, by constantly referring to the conspirators as honorable men, and saying that he does not want to turn the Romans against Brutus, even though he clearly does.
Even though Antony clutched our hearts in fists of emotion when saying, “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.” , he could not compete with Brutus in the use of pathos. Brutus used pathos exquisitely when saying, “With this I depart, --that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.” Brutus said this to show that he truly thought that killing Caesar was for honorable reasons, and that if it wasn’t, he would kill himself if and when the people wanted. The people quickly replied, “Live, Brutus!
The murdering conspirators who violently slayed the beloved Julius Caesar are being cheered on by all of Rome, all through the clever use of rhetoric. The only logical choice Antony has before him is to fight fire with fire, and convince the crowd that he’s right, and not Brutus or his followers. Antony goes up to speak the truth about his feelings for Julius Caesar, and persuade the crowd to follow him to rise against the conspirators, without being direct. So he stands in front of the crowd and begins to earn the crowd’s trust, with ethos, demonstrate his intelligence, with logos, and pull the crowd to his side, with pathos. Without credibility, a speaker can’t truly be convincing.
He uses pathos throughout his speech in order to influence the people to join his side because he is forbidden by Brutus to speak against the conspirators He is trying to appeal to their emotions and feelings in order to convince them to take his side and go against the conspirators. Antony states that "Caesar was my friend, faithful and just to me." in order to draw the crowd in and to evoke sympathy from them as he mourns the loss of his friend. He's trying to convey to the crowd that Caesar was also a man who had friends and was caring for those friends. This is to make Caesar appear more human.
