In the novel, Julius Caesar was a well known public figure in Rome. Brutus is Caesar`s friend but he doesn’t want Caesar to have all the power so he kills him. He speaks at the funeral after to tell why Caesar had to die.Antony is also a friend of Caesar and speaks at his funeral. After comparing Brutus and Antony's speeches, Antony is more persuasive to the crowd. Both speaker use the ethos as a mode of persuasion to convince the audience. When using this type of technique, the speaker tries to show good character. Brutus tells the audience that he is honest by saying "believe me on my honor and keep my honor in mind. So you may believe me." (Act 3, Scene 2) Anthony uses ethos by being blunt and showing that he is respectable because he calls the crowd sirs'. He wants to seem like he can be trusted. Brutus syas he would rather wrong himself than an honorable man like Caesar. This shows that he would have been willing to die over his friend which shows good character. …show more content…
Brutus tries to bring out the crowd's emotions by saying he had love for Caesar. He says "It's not that I loved Caesar less but I loved Rome more." (Act 3, Scene 2) Antony does a good job appealing to emotions. He begins to cry because his heart is broken since his friend Caesar is dead. He shows the crowd Caesar's cloak and brings a sealed will written by Caesar himself before he died. Antony makes the crowd feel pity by showing Caesar's wounds. Antony does a good job of getting the crowd emotional and gets them to follow
By reminding the Roman people of their previous love for Caesar, Antony incites guilt into his audience, because they were calling Caesar a tyrant, yet only one day before, they all loved Caesar. Antony's argument was more effective than Brutus' was because Antony's argument sparked emotion in the spectators, and it exposed the hypocrisy that the pulpit was exhibiting. All Brutus said is that Caesar was his friend. This hints that there may be a reasonable cause for Caesar's murder, but does not place such a strong emotion in the audience as Antony
Brutus begins his speech in Act III, scene ii, at Caesar's funeral, with an upset crowd questioning his motives for killing Caesar. The crowd’s initial reaction to Brutus is that he is honorable and venerated, but still needs to explain why Caesar was assassinated. Brutus tells the crowd that he did not kill Caesar because he didn’t care for him, but he killed Caesar because he loved Rome more. In addition, that if Caesar were still alive and king, all of the people would die slaves, and claims that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome. Brutus is able to persuade the crowd that he had honorable intentions for killing Caesar through the use of rhetoric-ethos, logos, and pathos.
Antony entrances the crowd by utilizing pathos in his speech. He uses this strategy when he speaks about how he was great friends with Caesar and it causes him great sorrow to see him gone. “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar…” (3.2.103). By noting that Antony’s heart is with Caesar, he evokes a sense of sadness within the audience.
Brutus used ethos ineffectively in his funeral speech to establish his credibility amongst the Plebeians and demonstrate that he had the right to speak. He and the other conspirators had just murdered Caesar, so they had to come out to justify their actions. Brutus came out to speak to the Plebeians, and he used ethos to make himself reliable and worthy of speaking to his audience. Brutus said, “Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe”(III.ii.15-17). “Mine honor” referred to the fact that Brutus was a well-regarded and honorable Senator, and also a descendent of people who paved the way for the republic.
In Act III, Scene 2 of the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Antony transformed the mourning crowd into an angry mob. He delivered a more effective speech by using persuasive techniques while he was speaking, that appealed to the audience in different ways. For example, Antony utilised ethos, pathos, and logos to completely alter the mood of the mob. Out of the three persuasive techniques, pathos was used most frequently throughout the tragedy. During Marc Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral, he used ethos which relates to ethics or morals to deviate individuals of what they previously thought.
Brutus then tries to establish credibility with the line “Believe me for mine honor.” Antony in turn does something similar when he says “Friends, Romans and countrymen…” By starting this way, Antony attempts to persuade the audience that he is one of the common man and should be trusted as their own. Finally,
Brutus uses ethos to establish himself as a trustworthy and honorable man. However Antony is justifying his words with the credibility of knowing Caesar. Brutus tries to make everyone believe that the gods don't have anything against him. They are using Ethos to show the credibility of the speeches they are giving. Some people would say Brutus is just as bad as Caesar, but Brutus does it for the sake of the people.
Antony knows that if he shows Caesar’s body the people, he will receive the response he is fetching by sparking up emotion to Caesar’s dead body. As an illustration to ignite emotion, Antony announces “Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor, poor, dumb mouths” (3.2). Antony allows the people to witness Caesar’s body as a way to put everything into perspective. Hearing about someone’s death and encountering their body lifeless has two major different feelings and Antony uses that against the people to make Caesar’s death more real. Likewise, Antony does the same with Caesar’s will.
Antony uses rhetorical appeals and techniques in his speech to turn the people of Rome against those conspiring against Caesar. As a result, the people see Antony as a persuasive and strong leader of Rome. Antony opens his speech at Caesar’s funeral by using ethos to present himself as a credible source and a friend of Caesar. Antony states his purpose in the beginning of his speech by starting with “I come to bury
In Act I, Scene ii, Cassius primarily employs ethos to gain Brutus's attention, logos to contest Caesar's power, and pathos to arouse Brutus’s passion. The use of ethos drove Brutus to listen and become a conspirator. Lines such as “ were I a common laughter, or did use / To stale with ordinary oaths my love to every protester …, then hold me dangerous” (I, ii, 72 - 78) instantly buys Brutus’s trust.
After reading excerpts from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, write an essay that compares Brutus’ speech with Marc Antony’s speech and argues the effectiveness of the rhetorical devices (ethos, pathos, logos) used in each. Be sure to support your position with evidence from the texts. William Shakespeare writes a play about Julius Caesar’s assassination and the speeches his friends gave at his funeral. In the play, Brutus assassinated Caesar because he thought he was protecting Rome. He was saying that if Caesar got all the power he would most likely become vicious and make everyone his slaves.
In this scene Caesar has been murdered by the conspirators including Brutus. Brutus is one of Caesar's good friends who is driven by honor; who thought Caesar’s ambition was going to be the end of Rome. Antony is a very loyal friend of Caesar’s who does not agree with the conspirators. Brutus and Antony are both smart well thought out characters. They desire to persuade the commoners to their side of the situation.
He made the crowd feel sympathy for him and Caesar. Antony was so persistent about how he worded his speech that he made the people of Rome think they were making their own decision, when really he was influencing them to go against the conspirators. Antony showed the crowd Caesar's body and the stab wounds. Antony says, “Look you here, Here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors” (III,ii, 191-192). By saying that, it made the crowd connect emotionally to it and feel anger.
Brutus wants to make the crowd feel like he is in a way the victim. In order to do that he says "As Caesar loved me I weep for him" so in a way the people feel bad for him. This emotional appeal did not persuade the audience considering the fact that he was if he truly did love Caesar as much as he said he would, then he would have tried to find a different route in getting rid of Caesar as emperor. Antony goes with the approach of making the people of Rome feel guilty. He tells the citizens "You all love him once not without cause what cause withholds you then to mourn for him" so they could reflect on their attitude towards his death.
His move gives him a greater common ground with the crowd. He provides many examples to prove that Caesar wasn’t ambitious like “I thrice presented him a kingly crown which he did thrice refuse.” Antony continues that Caesar sympathized and felt for the poor: “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Mark Antony manipulates the crowd so that his beliefs become theirs. Antony is ultimately the better orator because of his understanding of the