Brutus And Mark Antony Analysis

Brutus and Mark Antony had presented very different eulogies to the Romans after the death of Caesar. Both funeral orations came from different person’s belief, revealing much about their personalities and characters. Brutus’s delivery of oration was presented formally and very unambiguous to the Romans. Throughout the speech he tries and justifies the murder of Caesar. Caesar is portrayed as an ambition man, who was very narcissistic. When it came to mark Antony, he was personal and mordant. Antony tried and shielded Caesar’s reputation, but at the same time charged at Brutus to make him sound guilty. Though both are convincing speakers, Antony persuades the mob to sympathize with him, appealing to the audience’s emotion as well as their rationality.

In Mark Antony’s speech, we see that he is already a man distrusted by the conspirators for his friendship with Caesar. Brutus lets him speak at Caesar's funeral, but only after Brutus, a great orator in his own right, has spoken first to "show the reason of our Caesar's death." Brutus makes it clear that Antony may speak whatever good he wishes of Caesar so long as he speaks no ill of the conspirators. But Antony has two advantages over Brutus and that was his subterfuge and his chance to have the last word. It is safe to say that Antony makes the most of his opportunity.

Antony's performance on the bully pulpit should come as no surprise. He even delicately derides the senators with his lines "My credit now stands on such slippery ground”, “that one of two bad ways you must conceit me”, “Either a coward or a flatterer." The picture of a disingenuous Antony has been painted by Shakespeare.

At Caesar’s funeral, Brutus was clearly surpassed, both by Antony's duplicity and oration. B...

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...to retaliate Caesar and prompt the mob that the conspirators had killed Caser out of envy. He tried and disproved Brutus’s assumption of Caesar by using explicit instances to disprove Brutus and contrasted with what he had to say. He was able to succeed this speech as he uses immaculate logic and authentically appeals to the emotions to present his masterful eloquence. He provides distinct examples for the crowd to believe whereas what Brutus terms as his reasoning’s are hypothetical situations that do not validate for the murder of Caesar.

Through all these reason beings, I believe that the acclamation of Julius Caesar’s death was best presented by Mark Antony. He delivered a flawless speech by including many elements that a skillful speech needs. Though Brutus’s oration was successful as well, my beliefs are that antony accomplished a much more effective eulogy.