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Julius Caesar Rhetorical Devices

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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. By using rhetoric and specific rhetorical devices, Brutus is able to convince the already easily influenced …show more content…

He is also using parallelism because he repeats the first line to reiterate his honor in a “mirror sentence.” Layer on, Brutus establishes his love and friendship to Caesar, and all the traits he loved about him, creating the illusion of friendship to the audience. Another example showing Brutus’s use of ethos is, “Honor for his valor, and death for his ambition” (Shakespeare III.ii 27). He uses “ambition” as a negatively loaded word to weaken Caesar’s ethos. Moreover, Brutus juxtaposes “Caesar” and “ambition” to justify Brutus’s image as good and Caesar’s image as bad. A last example is when Brutus expresses on lines 25 and 26 “As he was ambitious, I / slew him” (Shakespeare III.ii). “Slew” is a positively loaded rather than the words killed or assassinated. Brutus’s use of positive words allows him to influence the people and strengthen his ethos, and remind them that it was an honorable death and not just

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