Marcus Brutus and Marc Antony Persuasive Speeches In english classes there is a certain book that is always looked at due to its stunning job at persuasive speaking and that is William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, which includes the marvelous speeches between Marcus Brutus and Marc Antony. These two men go head to head in a battle of the wits as they try to see whose side they can get the people of Rome on. Their speeches are filled to the brim with fallacies, logos, ethos, pathos, and many more literary devices and terms. While the speeches have much in common they also have many differences, and these differences prove victorious for one man and cause the other man his downfall. The one big similarity between the men's speeches is their sole purpose. They both announced their speeches to the crowd with the intentions of persuading the people and their minds to sympathize with each respective party’s speech. For example, when Brutus gave his speech he wanted the crowd to agree with him and his reasons for killing Caesar, but when Antony orated his speech he wanted the people to riot against the conspirators and to cast pity on him. While there may be many similarities between the men’s speeches the amount of differences between them is …show more content…
He used parallelism to speak to the crowd and say that Caesar was an ambitious man (III, ii, 22), but he never told them any of his personal feelings about Caesar. He also didn’t talk about his relationship with him or how close the two were in their personal lives outside of governmental and political businesses. If he had told them this than they may have been struck with emotions and realize that if Brutus, Caesar’s best friend, felt like he had to strike him down in an attempt to stop his power from growing they may have been firm in their choice of picking Brutus’s
Since the people knew Caesar because of his friendliness and how nice he was to people he was able to get sympathy for his death. When the people remembered how good he was at one point they wanted to get vengeance on the conspirators,Antony had used persuasion and reverse psychology with the crowd to get mad at the conspirators. Brutus had not connected to the people as well because he did not give as much sympathy about Caesar's Death , and what he will give in return. Antony had touched the people when he sad said that he had money and land for the people of rome but he did not want to read it because it would make them made. Once that had hit there was no way Brutus could fight back against Antony's
Cassius, a very suspicious character throughout the play tells Brutus to “be not jealous on me” (827), in the quote he tells Brutus to not be suspicious of him because he is just a friend who genuinely cares. Cassius does this to put himself on Brutus’ side and not seem like a distant person, this allows him to criticize Caesar and suggest that he is a bad influence on Rome which appeals to Brutus’ desire to keep Rome safe. After setting himself up as a friend to Brutus, Cassius uses harsh anecdotes on the weakness of Caesar to show that he isn’t fit to rule Rome. Cassius recollects a time when he and Caesar went swimming in the river Tiber and Caesar screamed “Help me, Cassius or I sink” (828) to depict Caesar as a little baby compared to the colossus he is said to be.... ... middle of paper ...
Rhetorical devices have been around for many centuries, and they are used to convince and persuade people to believe in their cause. These strategies exploit individuals by influencing them to feel sympathy or trust the speaker. In Julius Caesar, a historic tragedy written by the prominent Shakespeare, Antony’s brilliant rhetorical strategies are used to trump Brutus and prompt the Roman people to unite with his rebellion against the unjust butcher of the beloved Julius Caesar.
The most predominate and important aspect In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare are the speeches given to the Roman citizens by Brutus and Antony, the two main charaters, following the death of Caesar. Brutus and Antony both spoke to the crowd,using the same rhetorical devices to express their thoughts. Both speakers used the three classical appeals employed in the speeches: ethos, which is an appeal to credibility; pathos, which is an appeal to the emotion of the audience; and logos, which is an appeal to the content and arrangement of the argument itself. Even though both speeches have the same structure Antony’s speech is significantly more effective than Brutus’s.
...cessful but Mark Anthony’s speech is much more effective. Ultimately Brutus is trying to defend himself for the killing of Caesar. He wanted to prove to the townspeople that what he did was for the liberty and justice of the Roman Empire. Mark Antony was successful because in his speech he uses a masterful combination of ethos, logos, pathos. He also uses a lot of repetition and rhetorical irony which indirectly shows the crowd that Brutus is not an honorable man and what he does is very wrong. Antony shows true compassion to the common people and the passion won the their hearts over. Antony uses more of a pathos, emotional appeal, unlike Brutus who uses more logos and ethos. Antony’s tone in his speech was melancholy and the crowd could see true sympathy. Antony was ultimately able to persuade his point of view to the crowd and was more victorious than Brutus.
I want like to take this opportunity to talk about you something that is serious and important. I live in the date of Nov.13, 2016. Actually, I am the person who is transported back in time to the ancient Rome. Therefore, I am writing this letter to you in this situation, please to make a belief that I am going to save you instead of cheating to you. In my point of view, you should stop your plans to kill Julius Caesar. Definitely, there are three reasons that make me have to suggest you to stop killing Great Caesar.
“Words: So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them,” once said Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is pertinent to the everyday life of a person, people use words to insult, flatter, and persuade others throughout the day. Furthermore, Brutus and Antony attempt to use logos, ethos, and pathos to persuade the people of Rome to agree with their side of an argument. Their speeches are similar and have the same goal, to persuade the audience, but they both take contrasting ways of how they approach the audience.
When constructing an effective argument, the triple rhetoric must be considered. In the tragedy of Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Antony attempt to persuade the people of Rome. They each take a different approach while trying to convince them. In the end, one speech is more successful than the other in the way that the crowd agrees with one.
In William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, two speeches are given to the people of Rome about Caesar's death. In Act 3, Scene 2 of this play Brutus and Antony both try to sway the minds of the Romans toward their views. Brutus tried to make the people believe he killed Caesar for a noble cause. Antony tried to persuade the people that the conspirators committed an act of brutality toward Caesar and were traitors. The effectiveness and ineffectiveness of both Antony's and Brutus's speech to the people are conveyed through tone and rhetorical devices.
The crowd did not like Caesar because Brutus said that Caesar would become a tyrant if he did not kill him. Firstly, Antony asks, “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?” (Ⅲ.Ⅱ, 90). Antony comments this to rhetorically ask the crowd after he said a good thing about Caesar. Antony states, “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff,” so the people of Rome would know that Caesar actually cared for them and points out that Caesar was not being ambitious (Ⅲ.Ⅱ, 91-92). Nonetheless, this is just the beginning of Antony’s plan to get the crowd on his side. He will continue to persuade the audience that Caesar was a good
In these next couple of paragraphs I will be outlining what made Antony’s lecture superior to Brutus. Brutus began his speech by using Aristotle’s method of persuasion, ethos. The commoners all
He reminded everyone of the good things he did for Rome. ¨He hath brought many captives home to Rome.¨(III, II, 86) ¨When poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.¨ (III, II, 89) ¨You all see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him kingly crown. Which he thrice refuse.¨ (III, II, 93-95). All of these quotes came from the speech Antony gave to the people. They are showing all the good Caesar was for Rome and what he did for the people in it. Antony was also very smart with his words. He said things that he was allowed to say, he followed the rules Brutus told him, he made the conspirators look bad by using the rights words. He says, ¨When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; ambition should be made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is a honourable man.¨(III, II, 89-92) When he says this he is very smart. In the beginning where he says what Caesar did for the people that needed help, this was making him look as if he wasn't ambitious and like he cared about the people. Then he goes on saying with sarcasm that if Brutus says he is ambitious he must be ambitious because Brutus is an ¨honourable¨ man. This was to make the conspirators look bad. So everything Antony said was very thought out and the people believed every bit of it. Going along with how smart Antony was, he used something he knew would make the decisions of the people final,
Brutus’ speech held more authority and truth than Antony’s. On the day of Caesar’s death, both Brutus and Antony gave their two cents on his murder. Brutus argued that the murder was necessary and Caesar would have became a tyrant if he continued on. However, Antony argued against Brutus, and stated Caesar shouldn’t have died and that the act was unjust. Though in the end it is Brutus who triumphs over Antony, because of his use of pathos, ethos, and rhetorical questions.
Can one really justify killing a fellow human being? I’m not sure anyone can, but between the two very convincing speeches of Brutus and Antony I would say Antony’s speech was more powerful or convincing. Antony used logos to refute Brutus’ claim, that Caesar was ambitious and therefore had to be killed, and used pathos to spark emotion in the audience of Plebeians and convince them he was right. During Brutus’ speech he convinced the crowd that Caesar was ambitious, too ambitious, to the point where he should be killed, but Anthony did not agree. Anthony used logos by provided a few examples of when Caesar was not as Brutus’ described him one being that, “he that brought many captives home to Rome/ Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:/
Although the speeches were both very persuasive, I think that Antony’s was much more effective, and I understand why the people were with him. Antony used many strong methods of persuasion. He had a counterargument to almost every point that Brutus made. He said that Brutus was wrong, but in a very sarcastic and creative way. He also used the peoples’ sympathy to his advantage. He made it clear that he loved Caesar and that Caesar was a very kindhearted man. The only point that Brutus had was that he killed Caesar for the sake of Rome. Overall, Antony’s speech had much more effect on