In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, after the assassination of Caesar, and upon the completion of Brutus’ speech to the angered crowd, Mark Antony, a very good friend of Caesar, with Caesar's body in hand, begins to give a speech that turns the Romans against the conspiracy. He adopts a reverent tone, to play into the audiences inner emotions of Caesar’s death. Antony appeals to the audiences pathos by using paralipsis and epanodos to instill his thoughts about the conspiracy to the people of Rome. In his introduction, Mark Antony introduces Caesar as if he believes that Caesar was truly an evil person. He says, “The evil that men do lives after them”, this is an attempt to get the people to start connecting with him and listening to what he has to say. In Act 3. Sc 2. Line 83: “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”, the paralipsis occurs. Mark Antony says he didn’t come to praise Caesar, even though he talks well of Caesar the entire time, not including the mockery of Brutus calling Caesar ambitious. This paralipsis plants the seed of Caesar being a good person, and as Antony continues talking, the seed grows and eventually the person is mourning of Caesar, without Mark Antony saying anything but eight words. This furthers Mark Antony’s purpose because it starts off the …show more content…
Mark Antony repeats the phrase “Brutus is an honorable man” in order to show that what Brutus has been telling them has been false, that Caesar was not at all ambitious. This rhetorical device is the most effective out of the entire speech, because the idea the Mark Antony wants to spread it drilled into each and every person that is listening to Antony’s speech. Every “chunk” has in someway degrading the honor of Brutus and the conspiracy in one way or another. Without this device, Mark Antony would most likely not have been able to gain the leverage he had against
Julius Caesar: Analysis of Tone in Funeral Speeches MLK, Jr. once said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” (Goodreads). In the play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, actions and words are used and spoken against a friend and a rival contributing to the assassination of their fellow friend Caesar. Two people that were very close to Caesar speak out against each other during their funeral speeches. Brutus, who is a “friend” and also a conspirator against Caesar, and Antony who is a very loyal friend to Caesar, use several rhetorical and literary devices as they create tone of proud assertive and defiant manipulation to get the Roman citizens on their side.
“Brutus is an honourable man…” (Act III, Scene 2). Antony really wants to emphasize that Brutus was honourable. He is doing this in a sarcastic way, because what honourable man would kill someone the romans loved if it was in their best interest to have him as ruler. “Another example is when he says that he should do the men who killed Caesar wrong” (Act III, Scene 2). Throughout this he is just trying to get the point across, and let the people know he is serious.
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar- Rhetorical Analysis In the novel, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, after Brutus brutally executes Caesar in Act 3 Scene 2, Antony is allowed to give a speech to the people of Rome whom have seen witnessed this fatal tragedy in Scene 3. Antony uses anaphora, connotative diction and details throughout his speech to persuade the Romans to change their perspective of Caesar and Brutus. The way Antony speaks about both Caesar & Brutus are a dispute of what he is actually trying to announce to the Romans. At the end of his speech, Antony hopes to reach the Romans emotionally (pathos) by enraging them against Brutus’s false statements against Caesar.
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
(III.ii.26-28) In this sense, it shows that Brutus cares about Caesar, but when it seems to be affecting the country he loves, he will take any measures to stop it. As one standing in the midst of the crowd, it would appear through logic that Brutus did not kill Caesar out of anything personal, but rather he was slain to prevent a dominating ruler from forming. On the other hand, Antony takes the very words that defended Brutus, and makes them his downfall. Antony brings the plebeians back to the time where," I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/which he did thrice refuse.
By refusing to read the will several times and admitting that what it contains will cause the people to have such a great love for Caesar that knowing he is now dead will be unbearable, Antony ignites curiosity in the people and furthermore, a subconscious feeling of respect and graciousness toward Caesar. Basically, Antony uses Caesar’s will to convince the people that Caesar was a selfless, kind-hearted man and those who killed him should be ashamed and punished for killing an innocent man. Through Antony’s use of paralipsis, he is able to plant a seed of admiration for Caesar and one of hate for the conspirators in the hearts of the plebeians. In his speech to the citizens, Antony also asks many rhetorical questions to cause his audience to pause and reflect on how they really feel, or how Antony wants them to feel, about certain people and events that have recently become important. In one instance.
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,
Julius Caesar was ambushed by his own people. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Caesar is killed by his own people. After he is killed, Brutus and Antony address the crowd growing outside of the Capitol. In Mark Antony’s confrontational speech to the mourners, he establishes his argument that there was no real reason to kill Caesar by convincing the crowd that Caesar is ambitious; he then develops his argument by using pathos, ethos, and logos to change the mob’s stance and ultimately ends his speech by convincing the crowd that Brutus is to blame for Caesar’s death. The first way Antony persuades the audience is through his use of pathos.
Marc Antony gives his speech at Caesar’s funeral to the citizens of Rome. The purpose of his speech is to prove to the citizens that Brutus is wrong and Caesar shouldn’t have been killed. The tone of his speech is very ironic. It also gets very dramatic as he talks about Caesar being killed.
Antony is trying to find out whether they believe if Brutus had a valid reason to assassinate Caeser. He achieves his goal of making the murder seem unethical by using his convincing argument. Overall, Mark Antony’s speech was helpful in trying to convince the Plebeians. By the end of his speech, the Plebeians believed that the murder of Julius Caesar by the conspirators was an unrightful doing. The conspirators might’ve gotten away with the murder, but will never be seen the same by the
William Shakespeare a well known English poet told the story of Julius Caesar’s tragic death. One of Caesar’s dearest friends Marc Antony spoke at Caesar’s funeral. Marc Antony gave a strong speech to the citizens of Rome using different rhetorical methods to express the feelings he had about Caesar. In Antony’s speech he uses ethos, pathos, and logos to express the life of Julius Caesar. Using these methods helped him enhance the way he persuaded the crowd.
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
Antony speech is claiming that it was not a good idea to kill Caesar and to convince that Brutus is a very bad man. Antony makes the claim of Brutus throughout the whole speech using parallelism and repetition. Antony constantly says “for Brutus is an honorable man” through the entire speech but doesn’t really mean it. Yet Antony always says the same phrase a lot of times it makes you think of something different. The beginning of the speech when he first says the phrase you actually think he trying to be respectful.
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
There are two reasons why Antony gave this speech. The first was to get back at Brutus for murdering his beloved friend, and making him pay for it. The main reason Antony gave this speech is because he had a greed for power. He thought that if he could get all the plebeians on his side, that they would attack the conspirators and trust Antony, therefore making it easy to take on the spot for power. “Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards, For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.