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
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.
In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, the tragedy of Julius Caesar’s death occurs. Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus each gave a funeral speech. While both the speeches were well spoken, Mark Antony’s ended up being the better speech. Antony’s better use and variety of ethos, pathos, and logos, his use of figurative language, and the comparison between Antony’s and Brutus’s speeches proves that Antony’s speech is in the end better than Brutus’s speech. Antony’s speech uses ethos to show everyone around him that he is their friend, and he understands what they are going through; also Antony uses ethos to get the citizens to listen to him, because while Brutus says he is honorable, Antony says that he is with them and where they stand in
Plays are an important part of our human culture. One of the best play writers, William Shakespeare wrote a play called “Julius Caesar” which was about the real roman king Julius Caesar. After Julius Caesar died in the play, two important characters, Antony and Brutus went up and made their speeches. Using the 3 writing forms ethos, pathos and logos, I will decide the winner of these two conflicting speeches. This is written by Ramy Alawar, a freshmen high school student that resides in the country of America.
Mark Antony was a friend and follower of Julius Caesar. After Brutus gave his speech explaining to Rome why he killed Caesar, Antony walks in with Caesar’s body and begans to give a speech of his own. Mark Antony says, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. ”(Ⅲ.Ⅱ. 3-4), which explains that people will always remember the bad that you did rather than remember the good. This is dignifigant because Mark Antony is trying to tell the people that Caesar was not a bad guy like Brutus pertrayed him to be.
Marissa Gill Mr. McNulty G4 Mark Antony used numerous rhetorical strategies to take control of the Plebeian crowd’s minds and lead them into a furious frenzy. In the book Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony attempted to undo the idea of an ambitious Caesar that was painted in their heads by Brutus in his previous speech. Mark Antony did this in his own speech to persuade the crowd that Caesar shouldn't have been murdered and that Brutus was deceiving them for his own gain. Antony used pathos, metaphors, and repetition to prove that Caesar was a good man who loved his people, held himself to the same standards as them, and implied that the men who killed him were not honorable.
Antony uses pathos to create an emotional tone many times in his speech. For example, he told the people not to be sad about Caesar’s death as the people were upset while mourning him. The text states, “Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up to such a flood of mutiny”(Act 3.2.206-207). This quote explains the emotional appeal and even provides an example of verbal irony. Another exceptional example of Antony utilizing pathos in his speech is when he creates the emotional appeal to transform the crowd, by revealing Caesar’s lifeless and brutally wounded body.
Persuasion is a big part of the speeches and there is a lot of jelousy and greed. Greed leads people to jelousy and that is never a good thing to happen. Jelousy can lead people to do things they usually wouldn’t do. Persuasion is used a lot to convince people to believe in what they are saying. Although Brutus used a lot of good reasonings involving pathos, Antony delivers the more effective speech because he knew Caesar more and he was much closer to him
In the tragedy of Julius Caesar, speech plays an imperative role in the plot. During Caesar's funeral, Mark Antony and Brutus both provide speeches to justify Caesar's assassination by using rhetorical devices; however, Antony’s speech has a more effective role on the audience causing them to revolt against Brutus due to his lack of technique. In Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony both deliver speeches, but Antony’s speech overall receives a better response due to his evidence and use of rhetorical devices. Brutus and Antony both use pathos in their funeral orations, but Antony’s use of it further emotionally attracts the audience.
Antony delivers a surprisingly moving speech under the circumstances Brutus left him in. He has to move the people to do his dirty work. He has used logos, ethos, pathos to get people to mutiny. Antony used many ways in his speech to move the people to mutiny. Antony used logos to in his speech to get the people to listen to him.
He first shows his use of pathos when carrying the dead body of Caesar in his arms, as if he were a baby, and placing him right in front of the crowd. Pathos, which is the way a character shows persuasion, motivation, or information through emotion, was used by Mark Antony to make both Brutus and the conspirators think differently about if Caesar really should have been murdered. This type of rhetorical device is meant to get the audience to feel a certain way. Mark Antony does just this, and everyone is dead silent, since they are overwhelmed with the grief they are seeing before their eyes: a leader who was tragically murdered. Mark Antony also uses emotion to convey to the audience that they have just lost a great leader.
In William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony wants revenge on the conspirators who killed Caesar. Following Julius Caesar's death, Mark Antony uses many different rhetorical devices such as pathos and ethos in his speech that help convince the Plebeians to go against the conspirators. Attempting to draw the emotions out of the plebeians, Mark Antony uses pathos to persuade them. Mark Antony says, “ My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me” (3.2. 106-107). This statement emphasizes how much Antony loved Caesar and the grief he is now feeling that his closest friend is dead.
The crowd of grieving citizens demands answers after Caesar’s brutal murder. Brutus and the conspirators commit this killing, and it is up to Marc Antony to convince the crowd of their guilt. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Antony addresses this crowd of grieving citizens with a specific goal in mind. In this compelling speech to the Roman citizens, Antony argues Brutus’ innocence by utilizing ethos, logos, and pathos, ultimately convincing the crowd to turn against the conspirators. To begin, Antony strengthens his credibility by incorporating ethos in his speech.
Mark Antony - a Rhetorician Mark Antony was a man who knew how to persuade a crowd, to the point of madness. How did he do it? The answer to that is pathos, ethos, and logos. Pathos being the emotional appeal, ethos being ethical appeal, and logos using logic and reason. Those three ideas to persuasion are the key to being a persuasive speaker.
The novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley is set in the late 1700s. The novel is about a young, brilliant scientist named Victor Frankenstein. He becomes obsessed with working in his laboratory creating a living being. Because of society's fear of the monster’s appearance, he is forced to hide away. The monster’s anger toward mankind, makes him seek revenge on his creator, Victor Frankenstein.
